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I first reported this morning that after the first OTA update, a second update became available and was downloaded by my phone. I did not install it because I was noit sure what it was...and I am glad I didn't! This update appears to BRICK phones, so beware of this second update and DON'T INSTALL IT!!!!
Brick rooted phones? Mines completely stock, will it be bricked? If it does get bricked can I get a new Evo?
Don't download an OTA update if your rooted. pretty simple. You won't download an update for a patched piece of software
Plancy said:
Brick rooted phones? Mines completely stock, will it be bricked? If it does get bricked can I get a new Evo?
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shouldn't/won't brick it, if it does yes you can get a new one.
Nope, it doesn't brick stock phones.
Plancy said:
Brick rooted phones? Mines completely stock, will it be bricked? If it does get bricked can I get a new Evo?
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Uhm, no. Because there are no Evos to be had, so you can brick your Evo all you want but you won't get a new Evo.
Update breaks root nowai
sent with my evo from a secret place
jasonleb1 said:
Uhm, no. Because there are no Evos to be had, so you can brick your Evo all you want but you won't get a new Evo.
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OH yeah I forgot, I'd be without a phone for a while .
jasonleb1 said:
Uhm, no. Because there are no Evos to be had, so you can brick your Evo all you want but you won't get a new Evo.
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Of course he will, as long as Sprint can confirm he didn't break his warranty. They'll give him a new one when their new shipment comes in. After all, it would be their fault and they would have to provide a replacement.
Second update? I did the ota update my evo works even better now! But I didn't get a second update
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wortiz33 said:
Second update? I did the ota update my evo works even better now! But I didn't get a second update
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A friend said something about seeing it when he re-searched for an update. Not sure if others are getting a prompt or what not after initial update.
Also bumping so it's nearer to the top.
Yeah, I'm not getting an option for a second update. Maybe it's only area based.
It's not a new update its the same one and if you reply yes your definitely gonna get a brick Sprint messed up lol bringing back the old Samsung instinct days lol
it would help alot if you shared the name of this update
vdub804 said:
it would help alot if you shared the name of this update
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if you got the first one, install it, if you got a second one, don't. easy
what i did was uninstall all apps requiring su then uninstalled unrevoked and the restarted and shut off anything that didnt have to be running and updated...so far no problems short of having to reload a couple of widgets, i cant seem to get back to regular android launcher though
a friend of mine updated with unrevoked still installed and his phone made it through but it hung for about 20 min and i had to take the phone from him because he was ready to remove the battery, his sister had wifi running and after update it wouldnt start, my cousin turned off wifi before updating and his wifi seems fine...
Does anyone have a "bricked" phone? I'm curious as to whether it's a true brick or if recovery/bootloader can still be reached. As far as I can tell it's only rooted phones having these problems, I'm also wondering if people are pulling their batteries. Reports are saying that normal unrooted customers are saying their phones were "bricked", but I'm sure there's a lot of people that were rooted trying to get theirs replaced that aren't going to admit that they were rooted.
since someone in my inner-circle designated me as tech support i have a lot of people calling me, i just had a somewhat akward convo with a friend ending... root?? whats root, i dont even know what that **** is....*background* um dad..... yeah safe to say if you have an expensive phone and a competent kid with access and general knowledge of general electronics keep your phone away from them
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Does anyone have a "bricked" phone? I'm curious as to whether it's a true brick or if recovery/bootloader can still be reached. As far as I can tell it's only rooted phones having these problems, I'm also wondering if people are pulling their batteries. Reports are saying that normal unrooted customers are saying their phones were "bricked", but I'm sure there's a lot of people that were rooted trying to get theirs replaced that aren't going to admit that they were rooted.
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I have a normal, unrooted EVO 4G paperweight. Won't boot at all. Dead.
YUP same here, normal EVO, installed second update and BOOM, will not turn on, went to near sprint store and order new one at no cost, should be getting it tuesday or wed.
I accidentally updated to the 2.3 update from sprint, which naturally killed root and battery life of my shift, and so now I'm wondering if there is a way to ruu back to 2.2 so I can root and save some juice, or am I just S.O.L. until devs figure something else out?
This has been answered in several different threads... As of right now there is no way to return to 2.2. Until another root method is found, your pretty much stuck with what you have.
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crump84 said:
This has been answered in several different threads... As of right now there is no way to return to 2.2. Until another root method is found, your pretty much stuck with what you have.
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Wow fml, I should have known better. Thanks for the heads up though. This is going to be a long edc.
I'm in the same boat. If there isn't a solution found within a week or so, I'm going to reactivate my Palm Pre and use it until the fix is found. I NEED to have wifi tethering and the Pre was really easy to get it working on. FML
i just got off phone from sprint for my bill but the girl said she soo busy resting phone back to stock alot of people dont like update so call them maybe a way they can roll it back
I'm certainly going to call and see if they can...
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I'm certainly going to call and see if they can...
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Yeah,make sure you let us know. I updated my wife's phone the other day .I want to take it back to 2.2 so I can root it if need be.
http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-featuring-qualcomm-snapdragon-600-processor-gets-rooted-successfully
If not let me know what you need devs and ill be happy to assist when i get my s4 tomorrow.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-featuring-qualcomm-snapdragon-600-processor-gets-rooted-successfully
If not let me know what you need devs and ill be happy to assist when i get my s4 tomorrow.
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Agreed...I have my S4 in hand now and am happy to help...need root and need a wifi tethering option that works. PM me and let me know if you need log files or what...
Agreed, we all need to pitch in. Weird as im not seeing any devs yet?
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http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9505-featuring-qualcomm-snapdragon-600-processor-gets-rooted-successfully
If not let me know what you need devs and ill be happy to assist when i get my s4 tomorrow.
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I was going to try this, but I got worried that I would brick my new phone when I saw the firmware is different. Chainfire's method uses XXUAMD2 firmware. My Build Number is JDQ39.I337UCUAMDB. It is close, but not the same.
rsmolen said:
I was going to try this, but I got worried that I would brick my new phone when I saw the firmware is different. Chainfire's method uses XXUAMD2 firmware. My Build Number is JDQ39.I337UCUAMDB. It is close, but not the same.
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Yeah i saw that to. Someone on android central insisted it would work. Thats why i posted it here.
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Yeah i saw that to. Someone on android central insisted it would work. Thats why i posted it here.
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they want someone stupid to try it out instead of them and report their success or failure first lol
im sure most people dont even have this phone yet because its not out. Mine does not arrive till tommorow
I thoiught I saw a post in the Development thread that this method does not work - I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that is the case, unfortunately. I have faith that Chainfire of someone will get us rooted soon enough - (hell, I don't even have my S4 yet - won't arrive until tomorrow
But - Unless I had seen someone else had successfully rooted using any method, I do not think I would even think about being the first one to try it. lol
How long before the AT&T source code is released? We should be able to get a work around once we have that.
This will be my first Android phone that didn't have root before it was released, and I've bought nearly all of them on release date, taken it home, and rooted it before doing anything! I won't be selling my SIII right away since it looks like I'll be using it until we get a successful root out of this sucker....
Getting mine on Saturday if all goes to plans, willing to help test as well! I have 60 days to return it if it breaks, hahah
KryptosXLayer2 said:
This will be my first Android phone that didn't have root before it was released, and I've bought nearly all of them on release date, taken it home, and rooted it before doing anything! I won't be selling my SIII right away since it looks like I'll be using it until we get a successful root out of this sucker....
Getting mine on Saturday if all goes to plans, willing to help test as well! I have 60 days to return it if it breaks, hahah
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Yea i can't officially switch till root. S4 just arrived. Will see if I can get some root on here.
Just got mine an hour ago. Apparently, thanks to AT&T, the bootloader is locked, which could complicate the root method considerably
I found this on sam mobile, it has not yet started for the US. Maybe shortly. http://www.sammobile.com/2014/11/21/samsung-galaxy-note-4-getting-another-over-the-air-update/
llawen said:
I found this on sam mobile, it has not yet started for the US. Maybe shortly.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/firmware-update-n910fxxu1ank4-dbt-t2948187
Im not updating til lollipop,
My phone is fine as it is right now
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Looks like just International version for now. Just checked again.
However i did notice Sammy cant spell Sprint.
Sorry for the sideways pic lol
GhostAssassin said:
Im not updating til lollipop,
My phone is fine as it is right now
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Im with you im not taking any updates till I know lolliepop is released and we have root for lolliepop. Then Ill update. Im anticipating it bad. They cant get it here fast enough. Im one of the ones that are having issues with data signals. Very slow.
One thing I have noticed is that if I set phone down I get full bars and good speeds. As soon as I pick up phone it drops to the smallest bar and speeds go to 2-3mbs. Im hoping lolliepop fixes it.
This is one of the first phones that I have not had the immediate urge to root. Its been a month and I am only starting to think about root and it really only to get rid of a few things like the volume warning and the airplane mode warning (Why do they even have that).
llawen said:
Im with you im not taking any updates till I know lolliepop is released and we have root for lolliepop. Then Ill update. Im anticipating it bad. They cant get it here fast enough. Im one of the ones that are having issues with data signals. Very slow.
One thing I have noticed is that if I set phone down I get full bars and good speeds. As soon as I pick up phone it drops to the smallest bar and speeds go to 2-3mbs. Im hoping lolliepop fixes it.
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I think is firmware update update issue my phone signal never goes above 3bars,most of the it sits at 1 and 2
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GhostAssassin said:
I think is firmware update update issue my phone signal never goes above 3bars,most of the it sits at 1 and 2
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Number of bars have little to do with accuracy of signal strength.
so were not able to flash this firmware on our phones just yet correct?
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so were not able to flash this firmware on our phones just yet correct?
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Correct
llawen said:
Im with you im not taking any updates till I know lolliepop is released and we have root for lolliepop. Then Ill update. Im anticipating it bad. They cant get it here fast enough. Im one of the ones that are having issues with data signals. Very slow.
One thing I have noticed is that if I set phone down I get full bars and good speeds. As soon as I pick up phone it drops to the smallest bar and speeds go to 2-3mbs. Im hoping lolliepop fixes it.
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You're having issues with the phone and your solution is to not install they incremental updates that address those issues?
Not until I know i will not lose root. Once root is secure
llawen said:
Not until I know i will not lose root. Once root is secure
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If you update it via Odin, yes you'll most likely lose root. But then you take two minutes out of your life and reroot it. At least that's how easy it was with the note 3
I dont know how half of the people on here make it across the street and live another day to tell about it.
No sh=t. After the update the root method we have may not work. Once we have confirmed that ROOT WORKS. Then I will take upgrade. And then take 2 minutes out of my life and reroot it.
Ive seen a many of updates that broke root. Those that took update had to wait till root was done for the update. I want to keep root.
And I dont know how all these snobs on the forums have a life. Always looking down your nose at others that may not have your experience in this hobby. Always making snobish comments to try to tear down instead of building up in this so called hobby.
llawen said:
And I dont know how all these snobs on the forums have a life. Always looking down your nose at others that may not have your experience in this hobby. Always making snobish comments to try to tear down instead of building up in this so called hobby.
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Stop spamming pls. Take it to a PM .
Hey guys now that the G900A is fully rooted do think well start to some development going on for it?
isnt the bootloader still locked on that one?
Is there a way i can check if its locked?
The bootloader on the G900A is still locked. We can't really do anything about it so we can't really do recovery on it.
youd think that at&t would let it go on aging devices. I know the S5 is still popular (im using a sprint one on at&t service), but their death grip REALLY needs to be relaxed
youdoofus said:
youd think that at&t would let it go on aging devices. I know the S5 is still popular (im using a sprint one on at&t service), but their death grip REALLY needs to be relaxed
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The only way you can make AT&T do anything is to go to the FCC and try to make them do stuff.
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The only way you can make AT&T do anything is to go to the FCC and try to make them do stuff.
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oh i know, i just dont get why they retain such a death grip on their 2.75 year old devices