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Today would be a good day for me to start making treads. Been around long enough to still brick my phone. Not a noob nor yet a pro but I know when my phone is fully brick! "Black sreen with no led lights when charging." Ease touble shoot right; Its a gonner."
I myself know bricking is a lot more common now then every. With that said, How about a group or just someone do some research on how to bring back tri-color screen so that we have a chance to re-rom. Maybe post up what are the process to bring the phones back to life after death.
Its a start but this is just as important as us being able to flash custom rom. Maybe even more important if you ask me because, its a mobile device you spent money on to make your life seem alittle bit more fulfilling.
Like many out there in XDA, Roms are always fun to flash even if we had a good one running. The fact of the matter is: Having freedom to customize your little buddy seem just alittle bit more then just a passion. Its personal I will donate $500 US dollars to anyone who cracks this issue. Im returning my solid brick HD2 as defective to tmobile today!
good luck
Sorry, you have posted in the wrong section.
Ask someone in the HD2 section.
thanks
flyboy
MOD EDIT - Moved to HD2 forum.
No need to off $500 to unbrick device, just search in HD2 forums for guidance and you can unbrick it yourself. Alternative a lot of users on this site would guide you for free....that's what this site if for!!
let me guess... t mobile us meets incorrect radio version... won't power on, black screen, no charging light.
sorry, but this isn't one of those chance bricks, this is user error.
take it back to tmo and pretend it was like that when you woke up.
Yeah Im getting it in a few days. How funny that you mention user error. because it sure wasn't a user error. the user was just hard-headed to not believe that such a thing would not be repairable. lol! I hope someone could find out ways to unbrick. maybe upload a dummy software to upload open roms? any idea on how htc fixes these refurbish devices?
babydreamer1520 said:
the user was just hard-headed to not believe that such a thing would not be repairable. lol!
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Even if the relevant sections of the forums is full of big warnings that it really isn't? Wow, you were feeling lucky...
babydreamer1520 said:
Yeah Im getting it in a few days. How funny that you mention user error. because it sure wasn't a user error. the user was just hard-headed to not believe that such a thing would not be repairable. lol! I hope someone could find out ways to unbrick. maybe upload a dummy software to upload open roms? any idea on how htc fixes these refurbish devices?
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Chances are that if there is a way to unbrick these black screen bricks (tmous only, no other hd2 has shown this type of brick) then it will require a jtag connection to reinstal the bootloader. Certainly not something 99.999% of xda dev users would be advised to try.
I'm getting worried with all these people flashing wrong ROMs and bricking their phones and then taking it back to Tmobile and blaming htc for making a crappy device that just died when it's actually their fault. This makes both htc and HD2 look bad. People need to be more careful and read before flashing
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I'm getting worried with all these people flashing wrong ROMs and bricking their phones and then taking it back to Tmobile and blaming htc for making a crappy device that just died when it's actually their fault. This makes both htc and HD2 look bad. People need to be more careful and read before flashing
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hehe, dont worry, the people that count (us!) know whos fault it is.
I've been seeing this word thrown around a lot around here. Frankly speaking, this is actually a word that should be seen only in rare circumstances. So from now on, I would like for you all to ask yourself a few questions when you're about to use the word, "bricked."
1. Does my phone boot?
2 . Can I access ClockworkMod Recovery, even if my phone doesn't boot all the way?
3. If I hold the back button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led on top turn yellow?
4. (unlocked bootloader) If I hold the search button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led turn blue?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not bricked. Instead, your phone is messed, glitched, borked, scaring you, freaking you out, or making you cry.
Thank you for your time.
Sent from my R800x using XDA
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I've been seeing this word thrown around a lot around here. Frankly speaking, this is actually a word that should be seen only in rare circumstances. So from now on, I would like for you all to ask yourself a few questions when you're about to use the word, "bricked."
1. Does my phone boot?
2 . Can I access ClockworkMod Recovery, even if my phone doesn't boot all the way?
3. If I hold the back button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led on top turn yellow?
4. (unlocked bootloader) If I hold the search button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led turn blue?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not bricked. Instead, your phone is messed, glitched, borked, scaring you, freaking you out, or making you cry.
Thank you for your time.
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Um Dude Most people Know this, And this should be in Q&A that's Most Likely were People Say there "Bricked"| In most cases They are "Software Bricked"
Just saying Bricked Only means Hardware or Software. You should Know this that Q&A Stands for Questions and Answeres
The word "bricked" implies that your phone has become nothing more than a brick, and no, most people don't know that, otherwise they wouldn't use the word when ever something goes awry.
This doesn't belong in the Q&A section because I'm not asking a question, I'm making a point, even if I'm using questions in my post. I'm not seeking an answer to anything, and so I didn't post this in the Q&A section.
Is constantly rebooting considered bricked?
Have you answered all of the questions? Technically, for it to be constituted as a brick, it wouldn't boot at all.
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lol OK, I see. Thanks...
This should be stickied. It annoys me to see this word incorrectly thrown around
Sorry to revive an old thread, a that goes against my forum etiquette, but I had a thought today.
What if, instead of "brick," people used the term, "paperweight?" Think about it: "Aww crap, I just paperweighted my phone."
After all, its really more of a paperweight than a brick these days. I think people would be less likely to misuse a term like "paperweight."
Agree? Disagree? Thoughts?
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Bricked means the device has a total hardware failure. No way to turn it on or fix it. /thread
Sent from my iDevice.
its pretty hard to brick the Xperia Play, permabrick anyhows, But software bricks are easy and normally easy to fix (Flashtool).
Well in the case of mine, it really is bricked, even though it fits some of your criteria. In other words, you're generalizing and not giving accurate information.
Can I access flash mode? Yes.
Can I use fastboot? Yes.
Have I tried reflashing multiple types of software? Yes, and they installed just fine.
HOWEVER; is the phone usable? Nope.
Due to hardware problems, it is essentially a bricked phone until parts can be replaced. You can't navigate through the OS, or make calls, or even get into recovery. It is completely useless.
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Hi all,
So I flashed the superwipe script made my "Awesome" and in the OP it said it wipes external so I assumed all was okay. well it wiped the internal entirely so now my nexus 7 is bricked. I can't even turn the ****ing thing off without runing the battery to dead.
What can I do now to get it back to at least stock ?
Nevermind..
I fixed everything by following this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2150537&highlight=wipe+script
Please do not use the term bricked when your tablet isn't actually bricked.
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najaboy said:
Please do not use the term bricked when your tablet isn't actually bricked.
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Perhaps he thought it was bricked?
Wilks3y said:
Perhaps he thought it was bricked?
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Which is the crux of the problem-throwing around terms without knowing what they mean. It's like someone with a cough assuming it's mesothelioma when it's really just the common cold.
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I think that people tend to go into panic mode when something untoward happens... and the word BRICK in bright red letters flashes on and off in their mind, without really understanding the difference between hardbrick and softbrick.
People...
...if you see the word 'Google' upon boot - and nothing after (or maybe just the ROM boot-animation)... you're bootloader is still good and you're likely just softbricked/bootlooped or otherwise wedged.
If you DON'T see the word 'Google' upon boot... now is the time to start worrying - but don't panic, as that impairs judgement and clarity of thought.... both of which are needed in order to fix whatever ails your device.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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Which is the crux of the problem-throwing around teems without knowing what they mean. It's like someone with a cough assuming it's mesothelioma when it's really just the common cold.
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Perhaps he knows what it means, and also thought it was bricked?
I've thought I had a device bricked before, then realised it wasn't.
Doesn't mean I don't know what bricked is??
All I'm saying is, lay off a little bit. XDA is a community.
today i accepted an OTA update,
i was previously root with an unlocked BL. i RDS lite back to facotry and i was unrooted, therefore thought it safe to
install update. the phone now wont turn on, no matter the combination of buttons.
i know it has a charge its been on the charger forever. no LED light of any kind, and plugging it by usb to PC has no results either.
im pretty sure i hard bricked this device.
at any rate i cant get a warranty for two reasons :
1. unlocked BL
2. denied replacement dude to crack in back glass..
so im a SOL?????
I havent heard of this procedure bricking anyone else, so maybe your phone just thinks the battery is dead. Team Black Hats factory adapter may fix this for you.
If it bricked because of the update, it's the provider's fault, so they should cover it. However, me thinks there is more to this story.
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Theres nothing more to the story.
It was on charge all night with the stock charger.. Nothing.
Phone was rooted I unrooted it. Boot loader still unlocked.
I accepted the ota and it won't do anything. I was denied a warranty replacement in store because the back glass has a crack.
Anyway the device is useless I bought an s4 today. And I'm selling the RAZR M to the highest bidder.
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Theres nothing more to the story.
It was on charge all night with the stock charger.. Nothing.
Phone was rooted I unrooted it. Boot loader still unlocked.
I accepted the ota and it won't do anything. I was denied a warranty replacement in store because the back glass has a crack.
Anyway the device is useless I bought an s4 today. And I'm selling the RAZR M to the highest bidder.
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Cool story. Do I believe that an OTA, by itself, bricked your phone? Nope. Have fun with that S.
if u tried to update and it died, charging it after wont do anything. so i will ask what was ur battery at when u started?
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if u tried to update and it died, charging it after wont do anything. so i will ask what was ur battery at when u started?
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I charge it all night before work. Got up for work and on the drive to work I accepted the ota so the battery was probably at a good 97%
Im still trying to understand what happened lol
RikRong said:
Cool story. Do I believe that an OTA, by itself, bricked your phone? Nope. Have fun with that S.
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But then again, nobody cares what you "believe" happened.
RikRong said:
Cool story. Do I believe that an OTA, by itself, bricked your phone? Nope. Have fun with that S.
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I came here to ask for help on how to revive the phone. I didn't ask for an opinion. What I provided is a 100% accurate account of what led to my phone being bricked. In the hopes someone could give me and idea of what to do. I really could careless about your opinion of "what you believe". If you can't help then don't come here and attack me. Thanks.
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I came here to ask for help on how to revive the phone. I didn't ask for an opinion. What I provided is a 100% accurate account of what led to my phone being bricked. In the hopes someone could give me and idea of what to do. I really could careless about your opinion of "what you believe". If you can't help then don't come here and attack me. Thanks.
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Don't worry about alpha nerd. He gets his kicks by being smarmy in nearly every thread he posts in.
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Have you tried holding down on the power, volume up and volume down buttons at the same time for about 3 secs?
mustang5.0 said:
I came here to ask for help on how to revive the phone. I didn't ask for an opinion. What I provided is a 100% accurate account of what led to my phone being bricked. In the hopes someone could give me and idea of what to do. I really could careless about your opinion of "what you believe". If you can't help then don't come here and attack me. Thanks.
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There's no attacking. Before we even had chance to help you, you scrapped the phone and went and bought another one. When you originally posted, you didn't give any details to help us out. Personally, I don't believe only the OTA would cause a brick, but as we all know, no one cares what I think.
If your battery is good, you should be able to get into your recovery menu and restore your backup. If you can't do that, you might try to get into the fastboot menu and fastboot back to stock. If you hold the power button, volume down, and volume up at that same time, you should be able to get into the fastboot menu. When in the menu, scroll down with vol- button and choose your choice by hitting the vol+ button. If you can't get the phone to boot into FB, then you are probably stuck. However, if you can get into recovery and/or fastboot, you don't have a brick.
Jersey846 said:
Don't worry about alpha nerd. He gets his kicks by being smarmy in nearly every thread he posts in.
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edit: I started a pissing match, so I'll end it.
As much as I enjoy being "smarmy", I'll try to ease up so I don't hurt some kids feelings.
Dear rikrong.
First. Please read I supplied every detail I can absolutely express about my phone and what happened.
Second I do important business and there's no point in tying up time in waiting for a fix to my phone when I can get a new one. Why waste the time when I was expecting a customer to call about a $5000 job?
I'm not "some kid" and unlike you I have business to do and don't have time to troll on a forum for people seeking help with their devices. Hold your tongue and don't pass judgment on someone you don't know.
And don't worry about hurting my feelings. I GUARANTEE you don't have the mental capacity to offend me, friend.
I would like to revive the device and donate it to a family member or friend who could make better use of it than I.
To wrap this up, no button combos or ANYTHING will turn the device on, it literally is a brick, I heard of JTAG and this may be the route I will take..
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Dear rikrong.
First. Please read I supplied every detail I can absolutely express about my phone and what happened.
Second I do important business and there's no point in tying up time in waiting for a fix to my phone when I can get a new one. Why waste the time when I was expecting a customer to call about a $5000 job?
I'm not "some kid" and unlike you I have business to do and don't have time to troll on a forum for people seeking help with their devices. Hold your tongue and don't pass judgment on someone you don't know.
And don't worry about hurting my feelings. I GUARANTEE you don't have the mental capacity to offend me, friend.
I would like to revive the device and donate it to a family member or friend who could make better use of it than I.
To wrap this up, no button combos or ANYTHING will turn the device on, it literally is a brick, I heard of JTAG and this may be the route I will take..
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Well, that's nice, you tell me not to attack you and you come right back at me. I tried to tie it up in my last post and offer some help, but I guess you didn't get it. If you think I'm trolling, you need to put on your big girl panties and take a look at the other forums that aren't super newb friendly like these tech forums. I tried to offer peace, but you came right back at me. I also have plenty of of business to take care of every day. It just so happens that I like to come to these forums when I'm at home and finished busting my knuckles at work.
I tried to offer some help, after realizing how I did come off as an ass in my original post, but you fired right back at me. So,have fun.
I stand my my recommendation in post #2. It doesnt make sense that this procedure would brick your phone so my feeling is that its not bricked. I had a similar experience with my D2G back in day. For $10 team black hats factory adapter is worth a shot. Even if you stick with the S fixing your XT907 will fetch you more money on the market.
I have a china s4 clone that won't connect to the mobile network for more than a couple of seconds. What tells me that it's not a hardware fault (antenna) is that it does connect for a few seconds at 3 bars but continuously cycles between signal / no signal / airplane mode. I have bought heaps of phones from china, i'm not sure what to make of this. I have rebooted and even done a factory reset. I have an old virgin sim in it (5 years old) and it seems to find the optus network fine and put in the relevant APN. I have even changed the APN to virgin specific stats. (it had a lot of issues with old data on the sim such as logs/sms, deleted them when in my old phone and now it's fine and doesn't bother me with the input tag message.) I could go get my newer sim cut down to fit but I thought I would ask in xda first.
it also keeps saying restricted access changed in the top bar when it does this cycling, another reason i think the antenna is fine. this is really depressing me.
i'm thinking it is a problem with the sim, if the newer sim works i'll post here and let the next person with this issue know
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i'm thinking it is a problem with the sim, if the newer sim works i'll post here and let the next person with this issue know
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XDA don't give support to clones
Joku1981 said:
XDA don't give support to clones
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Indeed, it's a totally different phone..
It's likely to be using a MediaTek SOC probably a MT6589(T) but you can confirm using something like System Info Droid.
JohnnyInBriz said:
It's likely to be using a MediaTek SOC probably a MT6589(T) but you can confirm using something like System Info Droid.
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well this thread has been moved twice so don't blame me if it's in the wrong section
it's supposed to be MTK6589 quad core 1.6ghz
all i can get from system info apps is, armv7 rev0 v71
no. cores: 4
max frequency 1890mhz
instruction set armeabi-v7a
The point is, the only people who are going to be able to give you anything remotely resembling help are the people who bought the same device as you, which will be obviously based on their experiences with the device. 99.9999% of people who read/post here have genuine Samsung devices, and are going to be giving you questionable guesses at best.
If you want help here, you're going to need to be really patient.
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The point is, the only people who are going to be able to give you anything remotely resembling help are the people who bought the same device as you, which will be obviously based on their experiences with the device. 99.9999% of people who read/post here have genuine Samsung devices, and are going to be giving you questionable guesses at best.
If you want help here, you're going to need to be really patient.
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the more guesses the better i mean, i've heard reports of people having very similar issues with genuine s4's actually. things like, sim card not making proper contact and also the "IMEI" was not on the telco's whitelist (apparently a blacklist isn't secure enough for them). I am very patient and i've had loads of help on XDA with china phones. the only thing i don't need is condescending asses that think they are better than everybody because they can afford to spend hundreds on "brands".
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the more guesses the better i mean, i've heard reports of people having very similar issues with genuine s4's actually. things like, sim card not making proper contact and also the "IMEI" was not on the telco's whitelist (apparently a blacklist isn't secure enough for them). I am very patient and i've had loads of help on XDA with china phones. the only thing i don't need is condescending asses that think they are better than everybody because they can afford to spend hundreds on "brands".
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S4 Clons are so different from original s4 as HTC one from LG G2 is... So why did you choose this forum instead HTC one forum or a Nokia forum?
Anyway, if you are really sure your issue is the same issue as some original s4, i would suggest to open a new thread explaining again your problem and this time don't write you have a s4 clon. People will give you ads thinking it is a original s4, and if you were right you will not brick your clon if anyone suggest you something incompatible to your clon. But consider this: if you brick your phone because doing anything compatible to our S4 but not to your clon, you will be the only responsible.
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Actually, you completely missed my point OP (as I expected you would). My point was, why should anyone fumble around & waste their time helping you when you're dopey enough to buy a knockoff device you obviously have no clue how to troubleshoot if something goes wrong ?
I haven't & won't.
Because there are enough people who do the right thing & buy genuine devices to help here without helping bozos who buy devices from 'manufacturers' (term used loosely) who break god knows what international trade laws & violate who knows how many patents by making these things.
That was my point.
Your point about the cost of genuine devices was bull****. Plenty of manufacturers make great devices with tons of features at price points well below the S4/other similar devices.
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Actually, you completely missed my point OP (as I expected you would). My point was, why should anyone fumble around & waste their time helping you when you're dopey enough to buy a knockoff device you obviously have no clue how to troubleshoot if something goes wrong ?
I haven't & won't.
Because there are enough people who do the right thing & buy genuine devices to help here without helping bozos who buy devices from 'manufacturers' (term used loosely) who break god knows what international trade laws & violate who knows how many patents by making these things.
That was my point.
Your point about the cost of genuine devices was bull****. Plenty of manufacturers make great devices with tons of features at price points well below the S4/other similar devices.
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I think you completely missed my point, which i thought you would. I bought the phone because it was the best android phone I could find for the price, not because I wanted an S4, which I don't.
and I will say it again, this thread has been moved here by a mod so don't ask me why I posted here because I didn't.
It clearly isn't the best android phone for it's price if you can't connect to a mobile network mate.
Chinese phones have a lot of issues, the build quality and QC is bad and cheap.
I'd just go and buy a second hand S3 or S2, that's probably the same price and would be miles better.
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Obagleyfreer said:
It clearly isn't the best android phone for it's price if you can't connect to a mobile network mate.
Chinese phones have a lot of issues, the build quality and QC is bad and cheap.
I'd just go and buy a second hand S3 or S2, that's probably the same price and would be miles better.
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this is the problem with XDA. somebody doesn't know the answer to the question but they just have to give their opinion about something nobody asked for on a subject completely irrelevant. Did I ask for the best alternative phone? Did I ask for an opinion on chinese QC? If you don't have anything to contribute to fix a problem as described, with the phone as described, in the OP, then don't reply.
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this is the problem with XDA. somebody doesn't know the answer to the question but they just have to give their opinion about something nobody asked for on a subject completely irrelevant. Did I ask for the best alternative phone? Did I ask for an opinion on chinese QC? If you don't have anything to contribute to fix a problem as described, with the phone as described, in the OP, then don't reply.
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You would be right if this thread would be posted in his corresponding device forum, but it doesn't. People here knows a lot of issues for their s4 device, but not necessarily for other devices as s2, lg, Nokia, unbranded as yours..., and if they knew, they would answer to move it to the correct s2, lg, Nokia or unbranded devices forums before giving a possible solution. Yes, we don't know how to solve your issue, mainly because we have never touched your model device, as neither we wouldn't know how to solve same issue for a, for example, htc one, because we don't have got a htc one...
Where did you originally posted it? Search the correct forum for your brand (generic devices, other devices, unbranded devices, Chinese devices...) and post it there, and if you don't find it in xda, you will have to search for it in other forum platform if you really want anyone help you...
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And here you are over a week later sans help. Hate to say I told you so (you bought up the cost of genuine handsets in the first instance BTW, not me)
Some users want help from people but keep giving back hands to "xda members"
I remember an ex user over on dhd that eventually got band because of abusing the very people he so desperately needed help from.
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ranger4740 said:
Some users want help from people but keep giving back hands to "xda members"
I remember an ex user over on dhd that eventually got band because of abusing the very people he so desperately needed help from.
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Some people dont like being told the truth.This thread has been cleaned up already because the OP descended into posting abuse, and accused everyone with an s4 that they were fools for buying a "proper" s4.
His justification was that he cant afford a proper s4.He has already been told xda doesnt support clones, and in life you get what you pay for.
One good thing to come out of this is he shouldnt have any current or future problems with knox!
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Some people dont like being told the truth.This thread has been cleaned up already because the OP descended into posting abuse
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descend? really? lol. And what does it matter where I originally posted when it was moved here by a mod. I'm assuming the mod knows better than me and actually took the time to read what the post was about before he moved it so HE thinks it's in the best place. nuff said. Also I could give advice on any brand of phone, and any operating system on any machine. the amount of knowledge would differ depending on the subject. Believe it or not you may be completely stumped at non s4 questions but there may be people like me who wouldn't be. The firmware seems to be "heavily inspired" by an S4 as well so S4 knowledge could be quite relevant if the problem is firmware based.
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descend? really? lol. And what does it matter where I originally posted when it was moved here by a mod. I'm assuming the mod knows better than me and actually took the time to read what the post was about before he moved it so HE thinks it's in the best place. nuff said. Also I could give advice on any brand of phone, and any operating system on any machine. the amount of knowledge would differ depending on the subject. Believe it or not you may be completely stumped at non s4 questions but there may be people like me who wouldn't be. The firmware seems to be "heavily inspired" by an S4 as well so S4 knowledge could be quite relevant if the problem is firmware based.
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Ok, you win, if you are right and it is true your firmware is "heavily inspired" by an S4, here is the solution for your issue any of us would apply:
- download last firmware update from here and loaf of into odin: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=GT-I9500&pcode=0#firmware
- enter in download mode (if you are able to...), by pressing pwr+home+vol- (our s4 enter here successfully... Does your "s4" enter?
- flash and enjoy your bricked s4 (our s4 will not brick applying it)
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knifey_au said:
this is the problem with XDA. somebody doesn't know the answer to the question but they just have to give their opinion about something nobody asked for on a subject completely irrelevant. Did I ask for the best alternative phone? Did I ask for an opinion on chinese QC? If you don't have anything to contribute to fix a problem as described, with the phone as described, in the OP, then don't reply.
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Lol it's a forum mate, people can say what they like (within reason) and I was actually giving you good advice. No need to be rude.
A genuine second hand S2 is a lot better than a clone S4, simple. Not my fault you've bought a piece of rubbish and now can't fix it.
No idea why a mod moved this question here, it's as good here as it is in a Sony Experia thread. The firmware on your phone isn't based on TW at all, it is just made to look like TW.
Try this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241503
You'll prob get more help there (if you remember your manners)
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