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Bricked N1 and HTC fixed it. FREE!

So last Friday I was attempting to install Galaxy S status bar on my N1, but in the process of trying to do too much I Bricked my phone. Mind you, Im not a complete noob to the process. I've rooted mytouch, G1, and even tinkered with my Shadow, so I'm pretty familiar with the processes, but this time I finally F'd up and I knew it. Phone just flashed orange and green light top right corner. Did my research and saw other posts w/similar problems but all battery related, but I still tried their solutions to no avail. The only thing to do other than to use it as paper weight was to try my warranty, which all of us know is void after unlocking. So I Called HTC warranty hotline and explained my problem without telling them of the custom rom I installed and they gave me two options; replace w/refurb or fix mine, mine is engraved so replacement out of question. So they emailed me a overnight shipping label, I sent it to them on Monday, they received it on Tuesday, Fixed it on Thursday, and I got it back on Friday, good as new. So basically to all who dare to root and mod your phones and Brick it in the process. Try your warranty. Worse they can say is no. In my case they fixed it.

They fixed mine as well and even re-locked the bootloader. Mind you, I ended up rooting it again as soon as I got it back. HTC rocks!
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Now that's service I'm impressed. Frankly I'm impressed with Android and the community. Google knows exactly what people are doing and they go just a step shy of condoning it and now to hear the HTC does this sort of thing knowing fully well that there's a 99% chance it's bricked cause someone was nerding out it
Having come over from a 3GS just about a month ago I am really impressed with Android. The only thing now is a solid hardware platform. I love my Nexus One but there are things HTC could have done better, mainly screen related, and Motorola is etched in my brain as making the most annoying phones in history. But aside from that, I think it's Android for life for me

Are you sure your bricking related to flashing a themed bar?
I thought that bricking your phone was only possible through some low-level processes such as flashing a radio.
Either way, glad they fixed your problems.

Yea. Pretty sure I bricked it. Trying to flash the Galaxy status bar didn't brick it, but the series of mis-steps that followed did. But I got it back, re-unlocked it and happy as can be. Thanx HTC.

Hi, did HTC ask you for an reeipt or proof of warranty? I am asking cause i purchased my nexus from ebay(no receipt or warranty whatsoever) and i've read in other threads that HTC did not ask for these papers considering that the phone is less than 1 yr old.
thanks.

makes me wonder why anyone would want to root without unlocking the bootloader

deeren said:
Hi, did HTC ask you for an reeipt or proof of warranty? I am asking cause i purchased my nexus from ebay(no receipt or warranty whatsoever) and i've read in other threads that HTC did not ask for these papers considering that the phone is less than 1 yr old.
thanks.
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Nope. I bought mine off ebay as well and I even said that on the phone but the lady from HTC said that was fine. They fixed my phone no problem

I am going to attempt a replacement on mine. Except I have the unfortunate issue of the void sticker missing from the screw on the back. I'm going to send it in anyway, since I have a dust under the screen issue. Perhaps they will be nice and replace it anyway. If not, well I guess it will cost me $28 to get it back. Or maybe not that much to have them fix it..

[Q] New phone and bricked after 15mins!!! SERIOUSLY???

Hey there fellow member.
I was really happy when i bought my new phone (Samsung Nexus S) and really want to explore it and see what the phone can do! So... i plugged in the battery, opened the phone, and all was fine. Since i connected the wifi it asked me to update to ICS rom 4.0.4, and i said, sure why not? The rom when was finished from download asked me to restart the phone. A small installation bar appeared and then... BAM blank screen! I was like WTF i didnt even moved the phone. In 15mins i realise the phone was bricked (new world record or something )
So now the phone is not opening and i thinking to use it like a hammer or something. Before i do that, is there any way to revive it? I searched for solutions into the forum but the best solution was an application on Ubuntu OS. So... is there any solution to do in windows OS?
Although i think the best answer is to get the phone back for refound....
Anyways, waitting your ideas and please /soothe me

If u can get refund/exchange go for it, don't even try to temper with phone, just go for refund/exchange if u can.

take it to a sprint store and tell them what happened they will take care of u

greg2826 said:
If u can get refund/exchange go for it, don't even try to temper with phone, just go for refund/exchange if u can.
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I agree
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Did you buy the phone used? If so I'm betting its already rooted so the ota will do that. Try a battery pull or a hard reset. (power + volume buttons)

Meh, not a record. I bricked my nitro HD in 10 minutes. Flashed CWM to the wrong place.
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no the phone is brand new, box closed etc

manthos1978 said:
no the phone is brand new, box closed etc
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Take it back and complain.
Sent from my Nexus S

I agree with the others, and while your there get a newer phone the nexus s is a great phone and all but its almost two years old.
Sent from my Nexus S

Phone has been replaced instantly from the store i bought it. (thank god)
Installed proper 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 with no problems
thank you all for your answers
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S III died yesterday

Hi guys!
Just wanted to share my pain, hope you won´t mind...
This is what happened:
Yesterday I came home from work, pulled my S3 out of my pocket and saw it was turned off. I tried to turn it on, but no luck. The phone was dead! Tried pulling the battery out, leaving it alone for more than 10 mins... tried to boot it into recovery - nothing. Tried the download mode - no signs of life at all. It was just a shiny brick! Putting it on charger didn´t help. No reaction, no led flashing, NOTHING! And just half an hour before everything was fine.
I was running the latest official AOKP build the last couple of days, so I really don´t believe that the software has something to do with it since I didn´t flash anything yesterday. The other question is now if the Samsung guys will notice that the phone wasn´t running stock software and that the warranty is actually void... I hope they won´t! But if they too won´t be able to turn it on, I guess they won´t!
I took the phone to the Samsung service center this morning and didn´t receive any feedback yet. As soon as I know something I´ll share it.
Did anyone happen something similar to this?

awww sorry to hear that , i am sure its covered in warranty

I don't understand the warranty thing, if the phone is dead and not due to you installing a Rom or kernel or modding it then can't really see any reason to refuse fixing or replacing it.
If however it was because of the reason that you did install things then I can see how the warranty is void.
Hope you get it seen to
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In 2013, rooting won't be illegal. Too bad it happened to your device, that is just bad luck.
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i don't know where you live but i'm pretty sure rooting is not illegal anywhere it just voids your warranty. removing the simlock is an entirely different story

Has happened to me too, 1 week after purchase (got stuck on the Samsung Galaxy SIII on boot). Got mine replaced right there and then but i'm left wondering about the quality of the phone. I get it that there are always problems with every product but i see so many people reporting the same lately i start thinking it may be chronic. Some component failing or some batch where something went wrong..
Sorry to hear that, they are an absolute pain in the ass with warranty in my country. They didn't even want to replace mine because the dude was claiming the back of my phone was slightly scratched (i wasn't, even) and they are quite anal about modded phones but, wish you the best of lucks!

Jcossack88 said:
In 2013, rooting won't be illegal. Too bad it happened to your device, that is just bad luck.
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Could you please be a little bit more precise? Is this a rumor or a new law to get passed?

exaclty the same happened to me. just in the middle of the day i realized that my sg3 was off. tried to turn it on but it didnt react. later at home i tried to charge but had the same bad result.
my biggest problem was, that it was rooted and running on a custom firmware since they tell you at every point, that you lose your warranty doing that...
after several hours of trying / searching and reading i became sure, that it would be an hardware fault and sent it to a local cellphone-support center.
they needed about 2 weeks to find out the problem, order a new main board, fix it and luckily didnt care about my custom firmware. they even updated it to the latest offical 4.1!
2 day ago i got it back and became happy - in this 2 weeks i realized how much i depend on this little thing
soo... i feel with you on this and good luck!

ch0ka said:
Could you please be a little bit more precise? Is this a rumor or a new law to get passed?
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It is for the US, YMMV. Droid Life Article/

budx said:
exaclty the same happened to me. just in the middle of the day i realized that my sg3 was off. tried to turn it on but it didnt react. later at home i tried to charge but had the same bad result.
my biggest problem was, that it was rooted and running on a custom firmware since they tell you at every point, that you lose your warranty doing that...
after several hours of trying / searching and reading i became sure, that it would be an hardware fault and sent it to a local cellphone-support center.
they needed about 2 weeks to find out the problem, order a new main board, fix it and luckily didnt care about my custom firmware. they even updated it to the latest offical 4.1!
2 day ago i got it back and became happy - in this 2 weeks i realized how much i depend on this little thing
soo... i feel with you on this and good luck!
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Thanks!
This is actually what I´m thinking... that the motherboard died... I just hope that tomorrow or on wednesday, I will at least get informed what is wrong with it... Don´t even dare to think how long it will take to have it again... And yes... I depend on it too!!! Maybe even too much!!! LOL

spotlight79 said:
Hi guys!
Just wanted to share my pain, hope you won´t mind...
This is what happened:
Yesterday I came home from work, pulled my S3 out of my pocket and saw it was turned off. I tried to turn it on, but no luck. The phone was dead! Tried pulling the battery out, leaving it alone for more than 10 mins... tried to boot it into recovery - nothing. Tried the download mode - no signs of life at all. It was just a shiny brick! Putting it on charger didn´t help. No reaction, no led flashing, NOTHING! And just half an hour before everything was fine.
I was running the latest official AOKP build the last couple of days, so I really don´t believe that the software has something to do with it since I didn´t flash anything yesterday. The other question is now if the Samsung guys will notice that the phone wasn´t running stock software and that the warranty is actually void... I hope they won´t! But if they too won´t be able to turn it on, I guess they won´t!
I took the phone to the Samsung service center this morning and didn´t receive any feedback yet. As soon as I know something I´ll share it.
Did anyone happen something similar to this?
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Stop flashing whatever roms you don't know ,or u will suffer a sever consequence "i'm talking about hard brick" .READ FORUMS AND TUTORIALS

Mine completely died just about 2 weeks ago, stock rom but rooted. Dropped it off at a service centre and got it back today with a shiny new motherboard (and JB)... As long as it's properly dead, they can't tell what's on it as the only way to revive it is to change the innards.
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nhariamine said:
Stop flashing whatever roms you don't know ,or u will suffer a sever consequence "i'm talking about hard brick" .READ FORUMS AND TUTORIALS
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Dude, I´m not a noob, what happened has nothing to do with software.

I entirely accept that this is a generalism and as such is bound to attract a hoard of punters contradicting it, but in many years on these boards I can recall few if any instances where repairs have been refused due to the installation of non-standard ROMs. It is sensible for manufacturers to discourage the practice - XDA-Developers is plagued with ill-informed noobs charging off to do things beyond their technical capabilities without doing adequate research - but I suspect a refusal to play the game would be counterproductive.
That said, I would always be inclined to revert back to a stock ROM and clean up a bit if I had the option before doing a return for repair.

its the same thing that happened to my phone running cm10 about 2 days ago.
sent my phone in for repairs to samsung. they probably won't be able to find out it was modified. probably needs to change hardware to even boot the phone up.
disappointing experience. :/

by any means, did you played with the clock levels?
oc/uc?

Jcossack88 said:
In 2013, rooting won't be illegal. Too bad it happened to your device, that is just bad luck.
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It's not illegal. You won't go to prison or even get sued (Android is not Apple). It just void your warranty.
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just got back my phone.
They fixed it even though I rooted & had custom rom installed.
Guess they couldn't tell as the phone couldn't even start up. hahah.
Now restoring the latest nandroid I had.

Nice to here that pal, hope this will not happen to anyone in future... this is my 2nd GS 3 (first broken due to Barca loss vs Madrid in August) and never had hardware problems.

So... here I am again...
Got my phone back yesterday. And it was the motherboard so they replaced it.
Man was I happy to have my phone back! But... my hapiness didn't last long.
When I came home I had to discover that now the gyroscope is not working. No autorotate whatsoever, no games that require the accelerometer...
Means they just replaced the mother board, flashed the latest firmware but didn't bother to test the device.
So tomorrow I'm going back to the service center and I'm going to yell my soul out at whoever responsible...
Unbelievable!
(screen rotation is checked, I tried calibrating the gyro, pulling out the battery, etc...)
This is such a disappointing experience... I'll think twice before buying a Samsung phone again...

my nexus 7 is acting on it's own..

first of all i'm from Malaysia and i bought my nexus 7 from a electronics company called "senheng" roughly more than a month ago..i was pretty satisfied with it until recently all the bugs and defects are starting to annoy me A LOT...
1) sometimes the touch screen is not responsive.i try pulling down the notification tray but it doesnt get pull down..
2) they are black lines on the screen sometimes when playing games or surfing facebook..it does happened quite often although it only appears for a split second.
3) this is the worst defect of all.sometimes the tablet acts on it's own,it's like it's having a mind of it's own.it would just jump back to the homescreen, swipe around and open up apps on it's own when i'm actually using the tablet.Basically it's like a ghost is using the tablet. So i try to find the cause of this problem and i'hv found than whenever i try to swipe around really quick the tablet will become not responsive for a while and it'll start acting on it's own, so i feel that there's a problem with the touch screen panel.
I went back to "senheng" the other day, hoping that they would replace a new tablet for me but they refuse to, so most probably i'm going to ring up ASUS tomorrow to report about my problems and hope that they would replace me a new unit. My main problem is the 3rd, i can live with the other two but the 3rd one is seriously bugging me.
Is anyone having the same problem as me? If so, what did u do to solve it?
p/s : i'm on stock 4.2 rooted...

Sounds like your touch screen is screwed. You shouldn't be getting lines on the screen.
Also there was some bugs with the touch drivers in the early stages. Have you updated to 4.1.2 or 4.2? Knowing your version would give better results.
Why did they "refuse" you a replacement? Is it damaged? Over the return limit?
I know this may have a moral stance, but I don't think anyone could tell a N7 apart from another N7. The serial number is on a plastic sticker that is easily removed. You could possibly purchase a new one, swap devices, and return the old one/new box. Or buy a new one and use it until Asus repairs your old one... then return it.
I've returned 2 [I fried one with a bad bootloader and swapped a 16 for a 32 (paying the difference obviously)]. They all just opened the box to make sure there were no obvious physical damage. The back cover isn't "meant" to come off, so they won't tear it down in the store.
If you want to physically kill one, download and flash a Samsung Galaxy Nexus bootloader. It won't even power on. No power + No Sticker = no way to tell.
The only reason I'm saying this is simply because store policies shouldn't be too strict on their exchanges for defective units. I've had equipment fail just after 30 days and you are left with junk. I understand 30 days is there for a reason and it is a good policy, but it should be a fine line. A day or two shouldn't matter.

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Sounds like your touch screen is screwed. You shouldn't be getting lines on the screen.
Also there was some bugs with the touch drivers in the early stages. Have you updated to 4.1.2 or 4.2? Knowing your version would give better results.
Why did they "refuse" you a replacement? Is it damaged? Over the return limit?
I know this may have a moral stance, but I don't think anyone could tell a N7 apart from another N7. The serial number is on a plastic sticker that is easily removed. You could possibly purchase a new one, swap devices, and return the old one/new box. Or buy a new one and use it until Asus repairs your old one... then return it.
I've returned 2 [I fried one with a bad bootloader and swapped a 16 for a 32 (paying the difference obviously)]. They all just opened the box to make sure there were no obvious physical damage. The back cover isn't "meant" to come off, so they won't tear it down in the store.
If you want to physically kill one, download and flash a Samsung Galaxy Nexus bootloader. It won't even power on. No power + No Sticker = no way to tell.
The only reason I'm saying this is simply because store policies shouldn't be too strict on their exchanges for defective units. I've had equipment fail just after 30 days and you are left with junk. I understand 30 days is there for a reason and it is a good policy, but it should be a fine line. A day or two shouldn't matter.
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ya i'm on stock 4.2 rooted(sorry i forgot to state that)..
they wouldnt replace me a new one cuz they said that they're gonna have to repair it and bla bla bla..i mean come on, the whole touch screen panel is screwed and they want to try fixing it?! my warranty is not over yet, it has a 2 year warranty.
i dont think we can actually return the tablet within 14days here in Malaysia, we dont have this kind of policy(not sure).
what do u mean for me to physically kill one? u mean i should just killed it and return to the store for them to replace a new one?

My touch screen also has started flaking out as you describe from time to time. Took it back to the store but do you think it would do it then? No, it acted normal until I got home.
Going back there tomorrow to hope it plays up at the right time.
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dr.m0x said:
My touch screen also has started flaking out as you describe from time to time. Took it back to the store but do you think it would do it then? No, it acted normal until I got home.
Going back there tomorrow to hope it plays up at the right time.
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i actually recorded the whole thing with my galaxy nexus so i'm gonna show them it..

Ninja move with the recording :good:
Fortunately I havent had these issues on my 32gb N7. One would think it would be under ASUS manufacturer warranty. I know its a last resort but if you have to then unroot and relock the boot loader and send it back to ASUS. I know the idea of not having your tablet for a while is crappy but if that's the only option...
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Ninja move with the recording :good:
Fortunately I havent had these issues on my 32gb N7. One would think it would be under ASUS manufacturer warranty. I know its a last resort but if you have to then unroot and relock the boot loader and send it back to ASUS. I know the idea of not having your tablet for a while is crappy but if that's the only option...
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i think asus dont really mind rooting and unlocking the bootloader of the device..
anyways, i'm gonna go to asus service centre today and hopefully they'll replace my unit with a new one...lol

Idk if they do or not. That's just the general rule of thumb when sending a device back for repair/exchange. Mainly BC they can say the issue may have been caused as a result of you unlocking and rooting your N7. That's why Google threw in the disclaimer when a boot loader unlock is attempted.
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Network cutting out issue - two phones in a row

Hey all! Firstly, thanks in advance for any help or guidance. I have had two 6p's, and i love them. I don't even want any other phone.. But there is this issue where the network will cut from LTE down to no service and you cannot fix it without restarting the phone. It starts off slow, maybe once a day.. then it starts happening more and more, till its unusable. Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried returning it to factory and everything. Google store replaced it once, but that was it, now they say they won't replace it again because it's outside the 3 month warranty :/\
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Just talked to Huawei tech support to try and get it replaced.. Long story short, they wont, but at the end of the call, the guy talked all quietly and told me "If you get another one of these, do not install the updates for it!" he then went on to telling me that it is only suppose to work in Europe right now and the phone is not capable of supporting it for the US. He didn't go into too much more detail other than that, but i found it kind of funny and odd...

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Hey all! Firstly, thanks in advance for any help or guidance. I have had two 6p's, and i love them. I don't even want any other phone.. But there is this issue where the network will cut from LTE down to no service and you cannot fix it without restarting the phone. It starts off slow, maybe once a day.. then it starts happening more and more, till its unusable. Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried returning it to factory and everything. Google store replaced it once, but that was it, now they say they won't replace it again because it's outside the 3 month warranty :/\
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Just talked to Huawei tech support to try and get it replaced.. Long story short, they wont, but at the end of the call, the guy talked all quietly and told me "If you get another one of these, do not install the updates for it!" he then went on to telling me that it is only suppose to work in Europe right now and the phone is not capable of supporting it for the US. He didn't go into too much more detail other than that, but i found it kind of funny and odd...
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i have had this problem too it was always fixed by reflashing the factory image just follow this guide https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928 its guide 10 and 11, also the 6p does not have a 3 month warranty it has a 1 year warranty so you can tell google that also i think it has a 15 month warranty from huawei
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the device was given to me as a replacement device. replacement devices are 90 days. Funny part is, huawei pulled up the warranty and the phone google sent me, had an expired manufactures warranty by the time i got it ha.
same exact issues? it would just show no service from LTE and wouldn't come back unless restarting eh? Ill try the guide you posted. thanks!

Mrtoye said:
the device was given to me as a replacement device. replacement devices are 90 days. Funny part is, huawei pulled up the warranty and the phone google sent me, had an expired manufactures warranty by the time i got it ha.
same exact issues? it would just show no service from LTE and wouldn't come back unless restarting eh? Ill try the guide you posted. thanks!
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yes same issue it would show a little x.
but the replacements should not void the rest of your warranty is that a new thing i rmaed my nexus 6 like 6 times over the whole life of the warranty they never reset my 1 year warranty or told me once you get this rma you only have 90 day thats junk i would just tell them your original warranty is still valid if you need rma but reflash will probably fix it

Just wanted to give a small update--I tried going back to factory using the latest factory images found in the link/thread above. That did not work for me, I still had the same issues. So, following the warning from the huawei rep, I tried factory images from the last 6.0.1 version... This worked for me. I ran it for a day with no issues until I thought I would try running an updated 7.1.2 custom ROM (SAOSP) with the latest bootloader but keep the old 6.0.1 radio.... This has been working for a solid day so far. I hope this has been the fix and I hope it helps someone else. I have noticed no decrease in network strength compared to before the issues started .
Last note: it might be in my head, but I have noticed a decrease in phone temperature (physically) , since using the old radio.

Mrtoye said:
Just wanted to give a small update--I tried going back to factory using the latest factory images found in the link/thread above. That did not work for me, I still had the same issues. So, following the warning from the huawei rep, I tried factory images from the last 6.0.1 version... This worked for me. I ran it for a day with no issues until I thought I would try running an updated 7.1.2 custom ROM (SAOSP) with the latest bootloader but keep the old 6.0.1 radio.... This has been working for a solid day so far. I hope this has been the fix and I hope it helps someone else. I have noticed no decrease in network strength compared to before the issues started .
Last note: it might be in my head, but I have noticed a decrease in phone temperature (physically) , since using the old radio.
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Just flashed back to the old radio not not because of losing signal but the cooler running you mentioned. Playing videos in chrome makes it go nuclear hot, been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why hopefully this helps. Thanks

elevatorguy said:
Just flashed back to the old radio not not because of losing signal but the cooler running you mentioned. Playing videos in chrome makes it go nuclear hot, been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why hopefully this helps. Thanks
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Have you noticed any differences ? Please tell me I'm not crazy lol

Mrtoye said:
Have you noticed any differences ? Please tell me I'm not crazy lol
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The little I've used it so far it seems to be cooler, will know for sure when I go to work tomorrow night and get bored. Will let you know for sure after that.

Sounds like you have Sprint