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 want to help my grandpa fix his color nook. It had your software on it, but now it's not working. Where do I go to start fixing it? He used to come here until he became ill. He had a couple of strokes and has some problems. My mom said it is ok for me to help, but I would have to learn how myself. What do I need to do?
1) your software doesn't say much you need to tell if it's custom Rom or has custom recovery etc..
2)not working doesn't define the problem tell if it boots up or charges etc..
3) no one can help you if u can't help them telling whats the problem
Are you GrandPaBear's grandson?
Sent from my SGH-I717
Yeah I think that was his name. He's staying with my aunt Laura tonight so I can't ask him. But I think that is what he said. The nook starts to start up. The little robot zooms to the screen and an arrow goes around the robot. It stops and just stays there. Grampa had me take a little card out and turn on the Nook. It turned on and worked as a Nook. But when I put the card back in, it doesn't. So How do i fix the card so it works?
Here is his original thread. I'm sure the info you require is in there somewhere. Wish I could help, but I know absolutely nothing about dual booting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26730007
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
I'm sorry I couldn't write back, I had to go to soccer camp for 2 weeks. I talked to grampa this morning, he was grandpa bear. grampa has me reading about the android. Told me to ask here if I have a question. I can do the stuff that grampa can't do for him, someone just has to tell me or show me what to do . He doesn't talk very well and his hands shake pretty bad sometimes, but he can use the nook if it is flat on a table. He had me order a new card for him. When it gets here we are going to fix the nook. right now he uses my moms ipad, but doesn't like using it. He said he was afraid of breaking it. He said to tell everyone thanks for the help. We are going to his farm to check on his goats and stay for a week so we won't do anything to the nook until we get back.
This was just the other night. I was at the gym doing my thing when my phone starts acting up. Freezing, dropping wifi connection and the apps were behaving oddly.
I contributed all of this to the lollipop that I decided to ignorantly update to my phone.
Anyway as just the other night I begin searching and piecing it all together to downgrade it back to kitkat. I was tired woke up at 4am and took me 7 hours to figure it out.
Once I finally did though I backed up my pictures, video and thought I was in the clear. Well during the flash process I made 1st mistake and put the file that was for nexus 5 kitkat not nexus 4. So it never booted up. I reflashed again to kitkat. It booted. And by this time I thought I was in the clear and all is well.
Come to find I being the stupid dumb animal I was forgot to backup my text messages.
I can't describe the loss. I am SO pissed at myself being I literally held them all in my hand not even a day ago. And it is burning me up to lose SOOO much so quick. On top of that feeling I have no control to get them back. I had the files all on my pc sitting there and I picked and choosed. I should of just moved it all over. Then maybe maybe I would have a chance. Ugh.
Now I prolly am screwed but I literally will do most anything to get these back. I am desperate. As I had many conversations going with a lot of my friends and others in fitness industry and now I have to start from scratch again.... I would rather most definitely not.
I contacted a forensic team to discuss possibility and they said less than 1% chance..... I have heard of developers being able to freeze phones, steal data, and everything else under the sun. Please is there anyone out there who can help me? A google developer who knows something he never was meant to share. Im looking for anything. I tried different recovery softwares and they found nothing. I really don't want to give up hope.
I am so sad and pissed to lose so much. It like someone took a nuclear digital bomb and blew up my world. My digital ecosystem. It never crossed my mind that they would be gone
Please if anyone out there can help and if they know something I haven't tried I would be indebted and most grateful if you would be willing to help me. If someone can will you help me please?
Hey guys, I was using my phone today as per usual but for some reason, the app I was using crashed and then the phone shut off. The phone then went into a boot loop and I thought it'd be an easy fix to just reformat the phone/factory reset, however, these solutions didn't work.
So I went to Factory Image for Nexus and installed 7.1.2 (N2G48B, Jul 2017) with the script and line by line but there is still no success. The phone just turns on, has the "Google" boot screen then turns back off. I am unable to get into recovery and nothing that I tried worked.
I tried looking around for a fix and there are some wacky solutions that people have used and had some success like using a heat gun on it and letting it die out but I feel like that's unsafe.
I also tried this but it also didn't work.
Can anyone help me with this issue?
(Also my 6P is out of warranty so I'm pretty much screwed)
Update:
I contacted Google first, then Contacted Huawei about the same issue. Explained to Google what was wrong, then Huawei and Huawei told me to just contact a 3rd party repair shop to see if they can fix it. I looked at motherboard replacements for my 6P and it costs around $200-$300. I thought that was a bit insane, so I contacted Google again in hopes of them replacing my 6P despite it not being under warranty. I explained to them that I contacted Huawei about to issue, then looked all over the internet to find a solution to the problem and they understood that I was frustrated with this problem so they replaced my device! Took a lot of explaining but it all worked out.
tl;dr contacted google to RMA my device even though it is not under a warranty. Also, as far as I know there is no solution to this problem except replacing the motherboard.
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Hey guys, I was using my phone today as per usual but for some reason, the app I was using crashed and then the phone shut off. The phone then went into a boot loop and I thought it'd be an easy fix to just reformat the phone/factory reset, however, these solutions didn't work.
So I went to Factory Image for Nexus and installed 7.1.2 (N2G48B, Jul 2017) with the script and line by line but there is still no success. The phone just turns on, has the "Google" boot screen then turns back off. I am unable to get into recovery and nothing that I tried worked.
I tried looking around for a fix and there are some wacky solutions that people have used and had some success like using a heat gun on it and letting it die out but I feel like that's unsafe.
I also tried this but it also didn't work.
Can anyone help me with this issue?
(Also my 6P is out of warranty so I'm pretty much screwed)
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First, check a few things. Can you enter recovery mode? When flashing stock, did you flash all the images separately after extracting the stock zip and run the format user data command afterwards?. What do you see in device manager when plugging your phone in while in bootloader?
DEVILOPS 007 said:
First, check a few things. Can you enter recovery mode? When flashing stock, did you flash all the images separately after extracting the stock zip and run the format user data command afterwards?. What do you see in device manager when plugging your phone in while in bootloader?
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I cannot enter recovery mode. I called Huawei and they said "When you are in bootloader, go to Recovery mode option and then when you press the power button, hold the power button in and the Volume Up button to get into recovery." I tried these steps but it doesn't work.
I first used the script that was given in the folder to flash the stock image but it didn't work. So I did the steps manually and still had no luck. I do not know what you mean when you say "format user data" command. The instructions on the google website doesn't say to do this step. Also, I assumed that all the data is erased when I locked and unlocked the bootloader.
When I plug it into my computer, My device manager says this: https://puu.sh/wJBzI/f7fa02b291.png
i am literally having the same problem. Just a random bootloop in the middle of the day. cant get to recovery, did a full factory reset, even relocked, stuck in a google logo bootloop. followed step 10 in this thread
Same issue here. I can get into bootloader and recovery. Have tried flashing all sorts of different firmwares, sideloaded many OTA's.
in TWRP if I try to backup or restore it craps out a few percent in.
Andrewbud said:
Same issue here. I can get into bootloader and recovery. Have tried flashing all sorts of different firmwares, sideloaded many OTA's.
in TWRP if I try to backup or restore it craps out a few percent in.
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Have you tried formating partions?
Wow this seems like a common issue..I'm surprised that there isn't a fix for it already. I'll keep this post updated if I find a fix for the issue, but as for now, I'm waiting for my phone to die out and seeing if I can do anything from there.
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Wow this seems like a common issue..I'm surprised that there isn't a fix for it already. I'll keep this post updated if I find a fix for the issue, but as for now, I'm waiting for my phone to die out and seeing if I can do anything from there.
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BLOD is a hardware issue. No recovery mode= S.O.L. Time to move on.
Exodusche said:
Have you tried formating partions?
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Some but not all.
If I wanted to format all possible partitions which would they be?
Andrewbud said:
Some but not all.
If I wanted to format all possible partitions which would they be?
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Not sure I just did data and cache. Don't believe mine was true BLOD but presented same symptoms.
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First, check a few things. Can you enter recovery mode? When flashing stock, did you flash all the images separately after extracting the stock zip and run the format user data command afterwards?. What do you see in device manager when plugging your phone in while in bootloader?
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BLOD is a hardware issue. No recovery mode= S.O.L. Time to move on.
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I find it hard to belive it's ****ed beyond all repair...It's a pretty new phone and there still isnt any solution for it? That's insane.
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I find it hard to belive it's ****ed beyond all repair...It's a pretty new phone and there still isnt any solution for it? That's insane.
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Out of warranty? Well, sure you can buy a motherboard and swap it out for more than the phone is worth... or just buy another phone?
v12xke said:
Out of warranty? Well, sure you can buy a motherboard and swap it out for more than the phone is worth... or just buy another phone?
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It's out of warranty.
But why would a phone that was made in 2015 break in 2017. A 2 year life cycle? It's so infuriating that I spent $550 on a phone and now the only other option for me to use this phone after a year and a half is to either buy a new motherboard for the phone or get a new one.
Got an rma with Huawei Canada. Purchased from telus Dec 1 2015
I don't wanna sound like an ass but clearly folks are not reading and searching before posting. This BLOD issue has so many different threads it's now silly. Boot loop with no recovery equals dead. Period. If you have recovery available, them keep plugging away at the options people's have offered in countless threads. As a parting note, just scroll down passed this past for say the next 40 and count the number of posts about boot looping. It might surprise you... Sorry for the rant...
I have the BLOD as well. 16 month old phone bought from Best Buy, so Google and Huawei have both given me the middle finger. I'm so [email protected]#king pissed about it.
I've been able to do the hairdryer trick to get the phone up and running again, but I can't really do anything beyond texting. The moment I do anything proc-intensive that would cause it to flip to the big cluster I'm back to the BLOD and fishing out my wife's hairdryer again. It's lunacy.
I'm curious as to how big of a fraction of the N6Ps are affected by this. Like CyberpodS2 said, there are a bazillion threads about this now, so how many Nexuses have sh$t the bed at this point? Seems like a lot (although the internet is admittedly a very noisy place)...
mustardayonnaise said:
I have the BLOD as well. 16 month old phone bought from Best Buy, so Google and Huawei have both given me the middle finger. I'm so [email protected]#king pissed about it.
I've been able to do the hairdryer trick to get the phone up and running again, but I can't really do anything beyond texting. The moment I do anything proc-intensive that would cause it to flip to the big cluster I'm back to the BLOD and fishing out my wife's hairdryer again. It's lunacy.
I'm curious as to how big of a fraction of the N6Ps are affected by this. Like CyberpodS2 said, there are a bazillion threads about this now, so how many Nexuses have sh$t the bed at this point? Seems like a lot (although the internet is admittedly a very noisy place)...
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I saw all of the posts about the bootloop. I just couldn't find a solution to the problem so I posted again with a post thst had detailed things on what I did. It's insane how there is no fix for it though. It's even a common problem and Google/Huawei doesn't cover it unless its under warranty...
I was able to contact Google about the situation and they sent me a replacement. I'm considering selling the unit they sent me..
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I saw all of the posts about the bootloop. I just couldn't find a solution to the problem so I posted again with a post thst had detailed things on what I did. It's insane how there is no fix for it though. It's even a common problem and Google/Huawei doesn't cover it unless its under warranty...
I was able to contact Google about the situation and they sent me a replacement. I'm considering selling the unit they sent me..
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You should unload it on Craigslist/Ebay/whatever ASAP, in my opinion. Use the equity to buy a better, more stable phone... I love the Pixel but it costs a lot... at least it's not ****ing Huawei. Screw this goddamn phone.
I've picked up an LG G5 as a stopgap until I can figure out what my next move is. I'm just really annoyed because I had planned on keeping the 6P for at least 3 years; I'm not big on constantly upgrading.. I like to buy a high-end product that will last me a long time and that I won't have to worry about. I didn't even make halfway to that ownership goal.
mustardayonnaise said:
I have the BLOD as well. 16 month old phone bought from Best Buy, so Google and Huawei have both given me the middle finger. I'm so [email protected]#king pissed about it.
I've been able to do the hairdryer trick to get the phone up and running again, but I can't really do anything beyond texting. The moment I do anything proc-intensive that would cause it to flip to the big cluster I'm back to the BLOD and fishing out my wife's hairdryer again. It's lunacy.
I'm curious as to how big of a fraction of the N6Ps are affected by this. Like CyberpodS2 said, there are a bazillion threads about this now, so how many Nexuses have sh$t the bed at this point? Seems like a lot (although the internet is admittedly a very noisy place)...
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Oh the same thing happened here with my 64gig version. My warranty expired in April and Phone BLOD in June in the middle of the day while i was listening to music at office. Had to spend the rest of the day jumping through loops with either google and huawei. The end result was motherboard replacement and since i had no warranty they wanted to give 25k (390$) (New 32gb comes at around 22k). I tried all the options that were available here on XDA but nothing worked. I am so disappointed in huawei and google, I've seen cases in US where they replace the device even when warranty is expired but not here, the customer care services are sorely lacking at my place. Week after bought One Plus 5 which is loads better than 6P and you don't even need to root it as most of things that needed root comes per-loaded in their Settings and no bloatware whatsoever.
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You should unload it on Craigslist/Ebay/whatever ASAP, in my opinion. Use the equity to buy a better, more stable phone... I love the Pixel but it costs a lot... at least it's not ****ing Huawei. Screw this goddamn phone.
I've picked up an LG G5 as a stopgap until I can figure out what my next move is. I'm just really annoyed because I had planned on keeping the 6P for at least 3 years; I'm not big on constantly upgrading.. I like to buy a high-end product that will last me a long time and that I won't have to worry about. I didn't even make halfway to that ownership goal.
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Yeah, I'm probably gonna sell it and wait for the Galaxy Note 8 maybe. I'm going to stick with my 3 year old HTC one M8 in the meantime...Also, What do you think the asking price is for the Nexus 6P 64GB model is?
First, Hello to all of you XDA genuises!! I am so grateful I came across your site while trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my phone!
I am somewhat familiar with the general concept of rooting & unlocking from the bits and pieces of information I was able to comprehend from my ex, but have never attempted to execute any type of modifications to my phone whatsoever. I DiD find someone (thru OfferUp) that I met at a local Starbucks whom "Unlocked" my S7 EDGE (Sprint-not fully paid off ?) for me to use on MetroPCS. It was successful and I was extremely happy once I finally got the picture messaging to function. All was great with rainbows and fairies sprinkling glitter down the yellow brick road while I skipped along enjoying my wonderful phone without a care in the world. Until I decided one day to power cycle it (turn off for a few minutes, then power back on) because I have been told numerous times that should be done regularly. When I attempted to power the phone back on after approximately 2 minutes of being off, it was starting up like normal until it reached the Samsung logo screen.
Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....(times infinity)
It will get so freakin hot to the point it burned my hands and fingers and I had to lay it on top of a fan.
I CAN get into Recovery and Download modes, but not Safe mode.
Samsung lied and said my phone was still under warranty so I sent it in with the label they emailed me and once they had it in their possession they claimed it was out of warranty and would cost me $80 to have them fix it. I had a bF and told them to send it back to me because I didn't have $80 unfortunately and if i DiD I do not feel it is fair for me to pay to have something fixed by the company responsible for the problem in the first place (the representative confirmed the issue was not my fault/doing at all).
I am in no place to really pay to have this fixed. I do not have a computer either (yes, my life is pathetic).
I have had this happen with this phone before and by some miracle of the universe during another bF i was having in which I (somewhat violently) started randomly pushing every button on the S7 EDGE-in no known sequence-I somehow fixed it and it was back to operating normally. How I acheived that?? I have no freaking clue but wish like hell I did.
If my ex husband and I were on speaking terms I wouldve reached out to him for guidance/help, but that is not possible.
So here I am, a mom trying to show her kids that just because Im mom Im not illiterate and you dont just throw something away without attempting to fix it because we aren't blessed with the last name Trump or Gates....FmL....
Any help is so very genuinely appreciated!!
[email protected] said:
First, Hello to all of you XDA genuises!! I am so grateful I came across your site while trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my phone!
I am somewhat familiar with the general concept of rooting & unlocking from the bits and pieces of information I was able to comprehend from my ex, but have never attempted to execute any type of modifications to my phone whatsoever. I DiD find someone (thru OfferUp) that I met at a local Starbucks whom "Unlocked" my S7 EDGE (Sprint-not fully paid off ?) for me to use on MetroPCS. It was successful and I was extremely happy once I finally got the picture messaging to function. All was great with rainbows and fairies sprinkling glitter down the yellow brick road while I skipped along enjoying my wonderful phone without a care in the world. Until I decided one day to power cycle it (turn off for a few minutes, then power back on) because I have been told numerous times that should be done regularly. When I attempted to power the phone back on after approximately 2 minutes of being off, it was starting up like normal until it reached the Samsung logo screen.
Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....(times infinity)
It will get so freakin hot to the point it burned my hands and fingers and I had to lay it on top of a fan.
I CAN get into Recovery and Download modes, but not Safe mode.
Samsung lied and said my phone was still under warranty so I sent it in with the label they emailed me and once they had it in their possession they claimed it was out of warranty and would cost me $80 to have them fix it. I had a bF and told them to send it back to me because I didn't have $80 unfortunately and if i DiD I do not feel it is fair for me to pay to have something fixed by the company responsible for the problem in the first place (the representative confirmed the issue was not my fault/doing at all).
I am in no place to really pay to have this fixed. I do not have a computer either (yes, my life is pathetic).
I have had this happen with this phone before and by some miracle of the universe during another bF i was having in which I (somewhat violently) started randomly pushing every button on the S7 EDGE-in no known sequence-I somehow fixed it and it was back to operating normally. How I acheived that?? I have no freaking clue but wish like hell I did.
If my ex husband and I were on speaking terms I wouldve reached out to him for guidance/help, but that is not possible.
So here I am, a mom trying to show her kids that just because Im mom Im not illiterate and you dont just throw something away without attempting to fix it because we aren't blessed with the last name Trump or Gates....FmL....
Any help is so very genuinely appreciated!!
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Have you tried holding vol+ with power and home key to put into recovery and clear your cache then booting from their
[email protected] said:
First, Hello to all of you XDA genuises!! I am so grateful I came across your site while trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my phone!
I am somewhat familiar with the general concept of rooting & unlocking from the bits and pieces of information I was able to comprehend from my ex, but have never attempted to execute any type of modifications to my phone whatsoever. I DiD find someone (thru OfferUp) that I met at a local Starbucks whom "Unlocked" my S7 EDGE (Sprint-not fully paid off ?) for me to use on MetroPCS. It was successful and I was extremely happy once I finally got the picture messaging to function. All was great with rainbows and fairies sprinkling glitter down the yellow brick road while I skipped along enjoying my wonderful phone without a care in the world. Until I decided one day to power cycle it (turn off for a few minutes, then power back on) because I have been told numerous times that should be done regularly. When I attempted to power the phone back on after approximately 2 minutes of being off, it was starting up like normal until it reached the Samsung logo screen.
Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....Samsung logo.....(times infinity)
It will get so freakin hot to the point it burned my hands and fingers and I had to lay it on top of a fan.
I CAN get into Recovery and Download modes, but not Safe mode.
Samsung lied and said my phone was still under warranty so I sent it in with the label they emailed me and once they had it in their possession they claimed it was out of warranty and would cost me $80 to have them fix it. I had a bF and told them to send it back to me because I didn't have $80 unfortunately and if i DiD I do not feel it is fair for me to pay to have something fixed by the company responsible for the problem in the first place (the representative confirmed the issue was not my fault/doing at all).
I am in no place to really pay to have this fixed. I do not have a computer either (yes, my life is pathetic).
I have had this happen with this phone before and by some miracle of the universe during another bF i was having in which I (somewhat violently) started randomly pushing every button on the S7 EDGE-in no known sequence-I somehow fixed it and it was back to operating normally. How I acheived that?? I have no freaking clue but wish like hell I did.
If my ex husband and I were on speaking terms I wouldve reached out to him for guidance/help, but that is not possible.
So here I am, a mom trying to show her kids that just because Im mom Im not illiterate and you dont just throw something away without attempting to fix it because we aren't blessed with the last name Trump or Gates....FmL....
Any help is so very genuinely appreciated!!
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