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Hi every one! Everything was ok with my GNote and for months with ics update. yesterday I tried to reboot it because the battery was empty after long time use. I connected the phone to the charger but nothing happens. I waited a few hours but nothing too. It does not pass to download mode and recovery mode too. I tried the battery on the GNote of my brother and it works and its battery does not help to boot up on my GNote. So the problem is on the phone. What is the solution please?
PS: i don't changed anything on the Gnote since Mounths
Thank you

awcabdou said:
Hi every one! Everything was ok with my GNote and for months with ics update. yesterday I tried to reboot it because the battery was empty after long time use. I connected the phone to the charger but nothing happens. I waited a few hours but nothing too. It does not pass to download mode and recovery mode too. I tried the battery on the GNote of my brother and it works and its battery does not help to boot up on my GNote. So the problem is on the phone. What is the solution please?
PS: i don't changed anything on the Gnote since Mounths
Thank you
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Just a long shot, but is it a faulty battery connection on your device.

have you tried to flash another gb or ics rom?

Im guessing you run on stock ics, you could be superbricked if you deleted a big file from your phone, deleting big files could trigger the eMMC brick command. Just guessing here so i could be wrong.
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SquirtingCherry said:
Im guessing you run on stock ics, you could be superbricked if you deleted a big file from your phone, deleting big files could trigger the eMMC brick command. Just guessing here so i could be wrong.
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Wrong.

Seems to be battery connection problem from your tests as it was said before. If your warranty is not void..should go for SAV.
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i'll send it to SAV Later. Thanks for all of you

Have you tried charging your battery in your brothers note, and then placing it in yours? If your phone boots, then its a faulty connector issue.
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I tried it but no result
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PoisonWolf said:
Wrong.
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+1:thumbup:
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PoisonWolf said:
Wrong.
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+100
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awcabdou said:
It does not pass to download mode and recovery mode too.
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If it was a faulty battery connection, as seems to be a consensus here, than your phone wouldn't boot at all; yet you say that you can reach Download and Recovery mode.
It's something else.

No i cant reach any mode
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PoisonWolf said:
Wrong.
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Yup

New N7 user.

I have bought a 32gb nexus 7 from best buy in canada and wondering is it all the same ? Just don't want to end up whit a brick or anything
First 4 hours of use impression : it came preloaded whit 4.1.1 its snappy if you ask me but sometimes in application we can see some small lag but great tablet for its price !
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shahkam said:
I have bought a 32gb nexus 7 from best buy in canada and wondering is it all the same ? Just don't want to end up whit a brick or anything
First 4 hours of use impression : it came preloaded whit 4.1.1 its snappy if you ask me but sometimes in application we can see some small lag but great tablet for its price !
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They're are all the same do don't worry about that. Glad you're enjoying it!
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Mac of York said:
They're are all the same do don't worry about that. Glad you're enjoying it!
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Sweet ! Looking forward to this phablet now time to go on reading to get root and etc etc... Also how does the charging works first time ? Drain to 0% and then 100% ?
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Makaijin said:
With every electronic gadget using Lithium-ion batteries nowadays, it doesn't really matter how/when you charge it.
Some would argue to make sure to allow a full discharge from a full charge from a battery calibration point of view, so the battery meter is more accurate. It wouldn't affect the health of the battery itself either way.
Things like memory effect doesn't apply to lithium-ion. How often you charge it and how much you charge it (full or partial charge etc.) doesn't affect it much either. The only 2 things that can potential kill a lithium-ion is high temperature and letting it discharge far too low to the point that it cannot be charged up again. Note that all electronic devices will power off way before it even reaches this threshold.
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Read this in a different thread when i was unboxing my nexus 7, i let mine sit for a while on the charger before i turned it on, but it came charged already. So far i have not let my nexus drain to 0% and the battery life on it is great, it can go for a entire day.
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inkredible973 said:
Read this in a different thread when i was unboxing my nexus 7, i let mine sit for a while on the charger before i turned it on, but it came charged already. So far i have not let my nexus drain to 0% and the battery life on it is great, it can go for a entire day.
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Thanks for letting me know ive drained it to 0 charging all the way to 100 can't wait to start tinkering whit it
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I too just got one. May be came out of the box with 4.2. After I signed in I checked for an update manually, and it immediately upgraded to 4.2.1. I then rooted immediately! Battery has been impressive so far.
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annoyingduck said:
I too just got one. May be came out of the box with 4.2. After I signed in I checked for an update manually, and it immediately upgraded to 4.2.1. I then rooted immediately! Battery has been impressive so far.
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No luck for me i guess it shows that there is an update it downloads it and boot into recovery attempts to install but then an android robot laying down whit his chest open and a red triangle appears ?
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Sounds like it may be a corrupt download. Unless you plan to remain on the stock ROM just unlock/root it and then install what ever ROM you like.

DarkSankaku said:
Sounds like it may be a corrupt download. Unless you plan to remain on the stock ROM just unlock/root it and then install what ever ROM you like.
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Will re download yeah it was only 80mb and it took like 20 seconds i think to download?
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shahkam said:
No luck for me i guess it shows that there is an update it downloads it and boot into recovery attempts to install but then an android robot laying down whit his chest open and a red triangle appears ?
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Will re download yeah it was only 80mb and it took like 20 seconds i think to download?
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It happened to my device yesterday too. But after that upgrade disappeared so i can't get update. Did you redownload it? If you did, can you tell me how can i?
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I found website for to redownload way (i can't share url because i haven't 10 post) and i have tried twice but every time android robot laying down whit his chest open and a red triangle appears and i can't update. Can someone know why it is happened?

[SOLVED] Strange Screen When Booting

I have a case on my Nexus 7 that uses the four sensors on the side to turn the screen on and off. I was using the tablet just fine, then I close the case like normal, and upon opening it, it would not turn on. The only way to get a response from the device is by plugging it in and the screen just lights up black. Any type of power reset using the button combinations result in the screen shown in the video at the end of the post.
videobam.com/oLcTA
Sorry I can't post the link. I don't have 10 posts yet.
Solution: I removed the back cover and disconnected and reconnected the battery.

Re: Strange Screen When Booting
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I have a case on my Nexus 7 that uses the four sensors on the side to turn the screen on and off. I was using the tablet just fine, then I close the case like normal, and upon opening it, it would not turn on. The only way to get a response from the device is by plugging it in and the screen just lights up black. Any type of power reset using the button combinations result in the screen shown in the video at the end of the post.
videobam.com/oLcTA
Sorry I can't post the link. I don't have 10 posts yet.
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That's really weird, are you stock?
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dante32278 said:
That's really weird, are you stock?
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100% stock. It never did anything of the sort. I didn't get the 4.2.2 update until around Wednesday of last week and it happened on Friday

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MX6Booster said:
100% It never did anything of the sort. I didn't get the 4.2.2 update until around Wednesday of last week and it happened on Friday
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Might be a rogue app...have you added any new apps since the update?
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dante32278 said:
Might be a rogue app...have you added any new apps since the update?
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Not that I can recall. The tablet is purely my Portable Netflix/Evernote slave. I've left it on the wall charger for 24 hours, and on a usb port charger for 24 hours, to see if that helps but that won't do anything.

Re: Strange Screen When Booting
If you don't have anything important saved, you might to just try and wipe everything and start fresh. Are you rooted?
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dante32278 said:
If you don't have anything important saved, you might to just try and wipe everything and start fresh. Are you rooted?
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I have nothing that I would need to save, and how would I accomplish the wipe? I've never done it with an ASUS device before.

Re: Strange Screen When Booting
Check the stickies in the dev section, they will show you how to root/unroot and flash back to stock. You can likely just use the updated nexus 7 toolkit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
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tbh i dont get the problem your vid is just you holding the tab? could you maybe do a better vid o the problem

dante32278 said:
Check the stickies in the dev section, they will show you how to root/unroot and flash back to stock. You can likely just use the updated nexus 7 toolkit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809195
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All of the options are saying it needs to be in ADB or in Android. I can't get it to show any of those screens to verify I'm in that mode.

MX6Booster said:
All of the options are saying it needs to be in ADB or in Android. I can't get it to show any of those screens to verify I'm in that mode.
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I got it fixed. I ended up just removing the back and disconnecting the battery to force a power off. Thanks for your help though that tool will come in handy later

MX6Booster said:
I got it fixed. I ended up just removing the back and disconnecting the battery to force a power off. Thanks for your help though that tool will come in handy later
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Good deal!
There have been a couple threads where folks reported similarly-behaving screens. "sparkles", "static", "like an old tv screen", et cetera. I think at least several of them were similarly traced to battery charge issues or loose terminals on the battery connector.
Maybe add "[SOLVED]" to your thread title and it will help future visitors with the same issue.
cheers

[Q] The phone is dead after flashing new Kernel

I had Franco's 110, then flashed Faux's kernel resetter and Motley's 37 one after another. Phone now would not turn on. I searched other threads and it seems like holding vol + and - together with Power, should fix it. However in my case,only the led turns on and stays solid red.
Any ideas?

Check and make sure you didn't flash a Nexus 7 kernel version.
If you did its toast.
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Rest in peace if n7 kernel..

The Kernel file name is motley_422_n4_exp_build_37

However, Kernel resetter was downloaded from N7 thread, for some reason I was under impression its the same file...
The file name is grouper-faux123-reset-kernel-4.2.2

moldovanos said:
However, Kernel resetter was downloaded from N7 thread, for some reason I was under impression its the same file...
The file name is grouper-faux123-reset-kernel-4.2.2
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Kernel resetter is just the stock kernel. If you got it from the N7 forum its the N7 stock kernel.
Sorry.
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You can't even boot to the bootloader ?
Farewell Nexus 4.
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Never rooting the Nexus if i get it, such a fragile phone...

abdi7451 said:
Never rooting the Nexus if i get it, such a fragile phone...
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Hi,
This is not the phone that is fragile, it's what the user do with it... If you flash a kernel from a Nexus 7 to the Nexus 4... for me it's legitim to have "a little problem"... It's the same thing for all the phones, try to flash a kernel from another phone instead the one make for your phone and see the result...
If you don't read correctly and don't paid attention at what you do or flash... It's not the phone that is the responsible...

viking37 said:
Hi,
This is not the phone that is fragile, it's what the user do with it... If you flash a kernel from a Nexus 7 for the Nexus 4... for me it's legitim to have "a little problem"... It's the same thing for all the phones, try to flash a kernel from another phone instead the one make for your phone and see the result...
If you don't read correctly and don't paid attention at what you do or flash... It's not the phone that is the responsible...
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Yea, but a lot of people have been having problems with the infamous "Red light of death" after simply rooting, or letting the phone battery completely deplete itself. I'm still gonna get this phone, but I'm kinda cautious. Does it come with a warranty from Google?

abdi7451 said:
Yea, but a lot of people have been having problems with the infamous "Red light of death" after simply rooting, or letting the phone battery completely deplete itself. I'm still gonna get this phone, but I'm kinda cautious. Does it come with a warranty from Google?
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This issue and the battery issue you are referring to aren't related.
The N4 led just flashed red when there is an error. It could be a variety of things.
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El Daddy said:
This issue and the battery issue you are referring to aren't related.
The N4 led just flashed red when there is an error. It could be a variety of things.
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Has it happened to you?

abdi7451 said:
Has it happened to you?
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No. I don't do things to my phone that cause problems.
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abdi7451 said:
Yea, but a lot of people have been having problems with the infamous "Red light of death" after simply rooting, or letting the phone battery completely deplete itself. I'm still gonna get this phone, but I'm kinda cautious. Does it come with a warranty from Google?
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You bought a Nexus device. Use it. Root it. Flash it. Play with it. You worry too much. Stop being so paranoid. Again, if you carefully do the correct steps you will get the results you desire. If you miss a step you will be sad that you screwed up your phone. If you're in math class and you miss a step to the formula to the equation you will get it all wrong. Pay attention to all the little details. You will be a pro at rooting in the future if you follow the steps meticulously.
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So...as I understand I should just throw it in the garbage now?

scream4cheese said:
You bought a Nexus device. Use it. Root it. Flash it. Play with it. You worry too much. Stop being so paranoid. Again, if you carefully do the correct steps you will get the results you desire. If you miss a step you will be sad that you screwed up your phone. If you're in math class and you miss a step to the formula to the equation you will get it all wrong. Pay attention to all the little details. You will be a pro at rooting in the future if you follow the steps meticulously.
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So everyone with the red light of death is an idiot that didn't follow the steps?

moldovanos said:
So...as I understand I should just throw it in the garbage now?
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It may be able to be repaired. Here's the same problem from the other day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208312
There is a link to a JTAG service in that thread.
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have you tried flashing the factory image via fastboot? can you get into the bootloader?

El Daddy said:
It may be able to be repaired. Here's the same problem from the other day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208312
There is a link to a JTAG service in that thread.
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thank you, I guess thats the only option left
simms22 said:
have you tried flashing the factory image via fastboot? can you get into the bootloader?
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nope, I just can make the Led flash for a quick second:crying:

abdi7451 said:
Never rooting the Nexus if i get it, such a fragile phone...
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yeah not fragile at all. people don't know what they are doing (no offense guys). they just need to READ everything. the stickies at the top of the forums explain everything in detail. flashing a kernel for a completely different device is just asinine. as long as people arent stupid about things, fastboot can always save their asses.
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So everyone with the red light of death is an idiot that didn't follow the steps?
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im guessing so. i had the "red light of death" last night. i was using my phone at like 2% battery left, rebooted it and it said i had 5% left. big whoop my battery calibration is a little jacked. well i kept using it and instead of going through the shutting down thing when the battery died, the screen just went blank. again, because the battery calibration is way off. so i plug it in, and the light turns red for about 10 seconds. then the light turns off, and the battery charging icon appeared. i waited 10 mins for it to get a small charge then booted right up. not a single problem. i really dont get why everyone is having such freak accidents and problems with this phone.

Nexus 4 bricked, totally i guess

Bricked my Nexus 4 flashing a wrong ROM. Since i'm in EU and the phone USA probably will not get warrantly either
Now it won't even go to recovery, is there anything i can try?

Razer(x) said:
Bricked my Nexus 4 flashing a wrong ROM. Since i'm in EU and the phone USA probably will not get warrantly either
Now it won't even go to recovery, is there anything i can try?
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Can you get into bootloader mode and flash stock imgs
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Is anything happening when you power it up, can you get to the download mode?
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neky92 said:
Is anything happening when you power it up, can you get to the download mode?
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No download mode, the only thing i could get out of it was a red led

You could try to charge it whole night, and then access the recovery /download mode, or maybe open it and unplug battery terminal and plug it back after few minutes....
If that won't help, I think RMA is the only solution (they should not be able to check it if it wont give anything but black screen)
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I don't think RMA covers user mistakes Its hard bricked if you flashed the wrong ROM. You have to send it away for J-Tag. Likely your only solution.

Gonna ask to the local LG store for repairing costs, then i'll value the best option

I erase my n7 boot loader and they fixed it for free should be the same with the n4
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Once flashed a sammy N7100 rom on a I9300, the phone was dead as a duck and rooted on top of that. Got it repaired under warranty :angel:
Try turning it in and see what happens, i doubt they will be able to tell the phone has the wrong software and the bootloader is unlocked.Good luck
Thought repairs should be done worldwide but swaps only in the country where you bought it.

Razer(x) said:
No download mode, the only thing i could get out of it was a red led
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i know this might be a long shot but try this if you can...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oATx6fO35tg

gee2012 said:
Once flashed a sammy N7100 rom on a I9300, the phone was dead as a duck and rooted on top of that. Got it repaired under warranty :angel:
Try turning it in and see what happens, i doubt they will be able to tell the phone has the wrong software and the bootloader is unlocked.Good luck
Thought repairs should be done worldwide but swaps only in the country where you bought it.
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Same here. Flashed wrong ROM on my galaxy s ii and they replaced it for free
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gee2012 said:
Once flashed a sammy N7100 rom on a I9300, the phone was dead as a duck and rooted on top of that. Got it repaired under warranty :angel:
Try turning it in and see what happens, i doubt they will be able to tell the phone has the wrong software and the bootloader is unlocked.Good luck
Thought repairs should be done worldwide but swaps only in the country where you bought it.
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The problem is the warrantly is in USA, and the phone is here in Italy.
Did you lost all the personal datas?

I had the same issue. Windows Explorer on my Win 7 computer was not downloading the image properly from Google, and when I tried to install the factory image I got the red led and it was stuck on the "X" screen. After trying several times to get it into download mode, I discovered that I could eventually catch it if I hit the volume down and power buttons at a certain exact time during bootup, at which time I reloaded a non-corrupted factory image and I was up and running.

pjc123 said:
I had the same issue. Windows Explorer on my Win 7 computer was not downloading the image properly from Google, and when I tried to install the factory image I got the red led and it was stuck on the "X" screen. After trying several times to get it into download mode, I discovered that I could eventually catch it if I hit the volume down and power buttons at a certain exact time during bootup, at which time I reloaded a non-corrupted factory image and I was up and running.
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Yep but you got an X screen, mine doesn't even show a thing

Razer(x) said:
Yep but you got an X screen, mine doesn't even show a thing
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Volume down and insert USB cable. What happens when you do it? Does it go in boot loader?
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It's a hard brick...

Nope, the phone is dead.
I'm selling it to US people so they can repair it, if you're interested send me a PM

Have a look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208289
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mariosraptor said:
Have a look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208289
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Sounds interesting even tough it's pretty difficult

Razer(x) said:
Sounds interesting even tough it's pretty difficult
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Yes, but where is the fun in easy stuff?
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