Killed my 3g please help! - Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I have a mesmerize but run fascinate roms and radio. I flashed the cm7. Test build then flashed back to stock with odin. And now im stuck on 1x data only. I've tried bout everything. Please help.
Fixed just need to reflash ec10 with pit file and repartoin and efs clear to redo programming.
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Try a battery pull... if not that... then I would flash a different radio.
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tweakymattman said:
So I have a mesmerize but run fascinate roms and radio. I flashed the cm7. Test build then flashed back to stock with odin. And now im stuck on 1x data only. I've tried bout everything. Please help.
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yea, try the battery pull. If that doesn't work, try to odin the EC01 radio (I was told you can do that with the mez, but not sure). Also, this belongs in Q/A not development.

I've tried three different radios. None work. And I had to pull the battery several times for odin. And I posted this in development in hope of knowledgable developers seeing it.
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I've tried three different radios. None work. And I had to pull the battery several times for odin. And I posted this in development in hope of knowledgable developers seeing it.
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Yeah im sorry for ur predicament but that's still not a reason to post in development..otherwise everyone with issues would

nitsuj17 said:
Yeah im sorry for ur predicament but that's still not a reason to post in development..otherwise everyone with issues would
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Not to mention a reason for posting about a mesmerize problem in the fascinate forum - these guys don't use our phone so may not be able to help you
On a side note, this might be worth a shot, if not you'll need to flash a full stock build with odin with re-partition checked to make sure your phone is completely re-formatted;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InN-Z340BO0
Either way, if you need to continue - post this in the mesmerize general forum (and only there).

Before you do all that try doing a simple ESN swap. Do a forum search right here in the Fascinate forums. A lot of people lost their 3G data when flashing ED01 Froyo. If you have the same problem myself and most of us had then flashing other radios and roms won't do a damn thing but make you mad.

Found it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051543
3G Signal Loss - Try DMU Rest or ESN Swap
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jamesnmandy said:
Found it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1051543
3G Signal Loss - Try DMU Rest or ESN Swap
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+1 to this, I've had to do it twice. Works like a charm
"Madness is only the first step to becoming what I am."
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I ran into this same problem, I also have the Mes...here is what I did to fix, In Odin, I flashed the EC10 stock for the Mes, aqnd I checked the boxes "re-partition" and "EFS Clear", when I rebooted, I had signal (no 3g and couldnt make calls" but I used *228 and it re activated my phone, bingo, 3g back.
Basically what I did was remove ALL information on the phone, which included the MIN and MDN so when I re activated it and activated my data again.

You should try to hook your phone, up in qpst service painting and enter your info for the mez in the ppp tab
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bwot75 said:
I ran into this same problem, I also have the Mes...here is what I did to fix, In Odin, I flashed the EC10 stock for the Mes, aqnd I checked the boxes "re-partition" and "EFS Clear", when I rebooted, I had signal (no 3g and couldnt make calls" but I used *228 and it re activated my phone, bingo, 3g back.
Basically what I did was remove ALL information on the phone, which included the MIN and MDN so when I re activated it and activated my data again.
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Haha so your fix made the most sense to me. And also was the easyest. And now I'm stuck on bootloader. Uhg.
Fixed now back to old set up 3g works. Bad odin file.
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[Q] SuperClean radio/kernel combination

I've read that using the eb01 kernel and DL09 radio can improve battery life in SC 2.8. Truth?
myth..
however i wouldnt try any other radio with eb01
Give it a shot. Easy enough to do the switch and you can always go back. The presenter of that configuration is a trustworthy source here on the forums.
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dunno about battery life yet .. going to wipe bstats in a few . i can say that it improved my data connection tremendously .
Actually, it's highly probable. Especially if you use gps. It's a commonly known fact DL09 had the best gps lock of any other. Dunno about data connection speeds...
being a noob, I don't want to mess up how my phone is working right now. I used adrynalyne method to flash my phone back after 2.7, to stock. Flashed new CWM, flashed 2.6 then 2.8 voodoo, used eb01 kernal, and enabled lagfix. I also have EB01 midnight/steel blue theme rocking. I would like to get back to dl09, becuase of the GPS performance. Do I need to do anything special before I do that, or just find and flash it via CWM. Voodoo is the part that makes me hesitant, and that fact that I use my phone as my modem, so I mess it up, I can't access this forum to fix it.
Thanks in advance.
Chopper posted a .tar. I'm on voodoo too , just flash via Odin in the PDA section.
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As stated above by lucas.scott use odin to flash the tar file using the pda option. And below are links to both so you can undo it if you should feel the need.
EB01 modem
DL09 modem
Credit to danknub (from irc) for the links and hosting.
good day.
do I have to worry about voodoo? Or is that just the kernal that i worry about? sorry for the noob question.
420fan said:
do I have to worry about voodoo? Or is that just the kernal that i worry about? sorry for the noob question.
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Not at all. Flashing a modem tar with odin includes no voodoo worries.
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chopper the dog said:
Not at all. Flashing a modem tar with odin includes no voodoo worries.
good day.
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Thanks for the quick reply, trying now!
How is it working out for you guys? I am tempted to try it, but would like to know if you see any differences. Thanks!
Dl09 is better for gps in my case
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Haven't seen any difference in battery life . But GPS went from taking 15 minutes to sync on eb01 , to about 2 seconds . So that's well worth it in my book .
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Update to sc 2.9.1and you won't have anymore gps issues. I lock almost immediatly.
Any improvement in reception, battery life, data tranmission (i.e. reliability and speed)?
I tested it for a few hours, and noticed that my MMS died. I could not receive MMS messages, it would stick on downloading. Of course after that, I went right back to EB01 modem.
Hmmm I haven't had any mms problems. In fact , I was experiencing data drops on eb01 . Dl09 cured that for me . Crazy how different phones are reacting so differently .
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lucas.scott said:
Hmmm I haven't had any mms problems. In fact , I was experiencing data drops on eb01 . Dl09 cured that for me . Crazy how different phones are reacting so differently .
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Honestly though, I should test again. The MMS in question were from my girlfriend who is on T-Mobile, and I have often experienced bull**** from her MMS with T-Mobile. So that may be it, I might test further because most people say DL09 is sweet.
Tell me about it dude , my girl is on at&t and about 60% of our texts never reach each other . Switching her to vzw this month.
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[q] can't flash my phone to metro, please help, followed instructions from xda post

Can anyone help me, i've done every step as is, i am trying to flash a rooted fascinate froyo ed01 to metro pcs. And still to no avail i dunno whats the problem, and i've repeated the steps several times already and still nothing happened, i was able to change my mdn, not sure with the min if it was changed though but anyway, my phone status show changed phone numbers, but in network it still says verizon, i called to metro to have my meid added to their system but they can't seem to add it, they told me my phone was still not flash. Please help. I've been trying to flash this phone since last saturday any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!
Please help anyone
ED01 has a check to see if you are on another carrier. you need to downgrade. Try an AOSP rom.
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iwasaperson said:
ED01 has a check to see if you are on another carrier. you need to downgrade. Try an AOSP rom.
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thanks for the response. after i downgrade, then flash to metro(if ever i'm successful) can i update to ed01 and still have metro flash?? thanks a lot!
You can't upgrade.
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who ever this guy is dont listen to him ... u can upgrade with cricket and the flash is still here so i dont see why not on metropcs...
yeah i did more research and i found about ed01 flashed to cricket. I think i'm gonna try that one. thanks.
rafgonzales said:
yeah i did more research and i found about ed01 flashed to cricket. I think i'm gonna try that one. thanks.
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Yeah don't listen to him I'm in cricket and started on stock eclair ...I rooted loaded miui on my phone and everything is fine
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Meh, I just remember reading about a carrier check. Personally, I'm on Verizon, so listen to the people that have another carrier.
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ey guys haha just successfully was able to get service from metropcs and i didn't have to have the store do it for me..i did a little more research and i found this thread giving instructions on how to flash a fascinate with ed01 froyo to cricket wireless and i got some really helpful tips in there courtesy of chrisngod, and his fellow forum mates idk if i can post the link of the site in here though. btw, i only got the text and call to work as of now, i'll just try to find a thread that can make my mms and data to work.
ey guys haha just successfully was able to get service from metropcs and i didn't have to have the store do it for me..i did a little more research and i found this thread giving instructions on how to flash a fascinate with ed01 froyo to cricket wireless and i got some really helpful tips in there courtesy of chrisngod, and his fellow forum mates idk if i can post the link of the site in here though. btw, i only got the text and call to work as of now, i'll just try to find a thread that can make my mms and data to work.
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Idk about metro but on cricket if you're on the android plan a simple change in the apn settings will do the trick ...try that with your phone.
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JeezyMT3G said:
Idk about metro but on cricket if you're on the android plan a simple change in the apn settings will do the trick ...try that with your phone.
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Has anybody been able to successful transfer another non metro phone over without having to metro flash it??
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How do I make my Fascinate more efficient?

Four words: I hate my Fascinate. Is there any way I can make my Fascinate faster, more responsive, and just work better? I've used Com rom, Cyanogenmod, & MIUI and none of them work for me. Community rom seemed to work best for me but about a month of running com rom, it just started forceclosing everything and I lost everything. Then, I went to Cyanogenmod. It was amazing, but I noticed it deleted things off of my SD card by itself. For MIUI. It was just a little to buggy. I just gave up and went to stock and installed OCLF. For some reason, my phone isn't very responsive, it constantly freezes, crashes all the time, the camera app doesn't want to open sometimes, and just today it started not opening up my apps and showing a black screen. I'm sick of it!!! How do I make my Fascinate work better? I'm stuck with it for 2 years and I can't stand it!? Any suggestions??? Ill do whatever it takes to make this thing work better.
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Four words: I hate my Fascinate. Is there any way I can make my Fascinate faster, more responsive, and just work better? I've used Com rom, Cyanogenmod, & MIUI and none of them work for me. Community rom seemed to work best for me but about a month of running com rom, it just started forceclosing everything and I lost everything. Then, I went to Cyanogenmod. It was amazing, but I noticed it deleted things off of my SD card by itself. For MIUI. It was just a little to buggy. I just gave up and went to stock and installed OCLF. For some reason, my phone isn't very responsive, it constantly freezes, crashes all the time, the camera app doesn't want to open sometimes, and just today it started not opening up my apps and showing a black screen. I'm sick of it!!! How do I make my Fascinate work better? I'm stuck with it for 2 years and I can't stand it!? Any suggestions??? Ill do whatever it takes to make this thing work better.
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Im not sure how to respond to this...I mean my fascinate is running cm7.1 w/ glitch v13 and is ****ing AWSOME! Super responsive, gps locks instantly, no lag, no fc's... Im going to go out on a limb and say you must be doing something very wrong or have a bad device.
Suggestion:
back your sd card up, odin dl09 eclair w/ pit and repartition checked, reformat your sd card, then flash rom of your choice. If that dont help, call verizon and have them send you a replacement.
I've never flashed a "pit" thing. I've just flashed the froyo file and called it a "restore." Also, I got a 16gb card withmy phone and it won't flash any CM7 roms, so I bought an 8 from eBay. Did the same thing... I have an old 4 gb that is the only card that will flash a cm7 based rom. Also, if I put my 16/8gb on a cm7 rom, it'll say damaged or unreadable.
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droidstyle said:
Im not sure how to respond to this...I mean my fascinate is running cm7.1 w/ glitch v13 and is ****ing AWSOME! Super responsive, gps locks instantly, no lag, no fc's... Im going to go out on a limb and say you must be doing something very wrong or have a bad device.
Suggestion:
back your sd card up, odin dl09 eclair w/ pit and repartition checked, reformat your sd card, then flash rom of your choice. If that dont help, call verizon and have them send you a replacement.
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But, what does the Pit and restore do to the phone?
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GagesiPad said:
But, what does the Pit and restore do to the phone?
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the atlas 2.2 pitfile w/ repartition checked does a full wipe of the system...which sounds like what you need.
droidstyle said:
the atlas 2.2 pitfile w/ repartition checked does a full wipe of the system...which sounds like what you need.
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OK, so go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746 , download the 2.2 pit file, download Eclair, flash them with partition checked, root/flash cwm, and install CM7 and see how it works? (CM7 is rom if choice)
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GagesiPad said:
OK, so go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746 , download the 2.2 pit file, download Eclair, flash them with partition checked, root/flash cwm, and install CM7 and see how it works? (CM7 is rom if choice)
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yep...but you shouldnt need to root first, atleat I didnt, CM7 is prerooted.
droidstyle said:
yep...but you shouldnt need to root first, atleat I didnt, CM7 is prerooted.
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OK, thanks. Ill try this tomorrow.
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here is dl09 eclair...the link was broken in the link you posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350373/Android/CI500_VZW_DL09_ECLAIR.tar.md5
droidstyle said:
here is dl09 eclair...the link was broken in the link you posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16350373/Android/CI500_VZW_DL09_ECLAIR.tar.md5
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OK, thanks.
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GagesiPad said:
OK, thanks.
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No problem...if you need some "simplified" instructions, check the mtd install section of my guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
I notices you said something about using the factory USB. Well, there's something wrong with that cord. My computer won't reconfbize my phone with that cord. When I try to charge it with my wall adapter, my phone wants me to connect USB storage. I've been using this cord that came with a crappy archos tablet. I've been using that 1 for months. Is that OK?
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GagesiPad said:
I notices you said something about using the factory USB. Well, there's something wrong with that cord. My computer won't reconfbize my phone with that cord. When I try to charge it with my wall adapter, my phone wants me to connect USB storage. I've been using this cord that came with a crappy archos tablet. I've been using that 1 for months. Is that OK?
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yea you can, but the factory cable is best. If you have issues try and score another factory cable.
droidstyle said:
yea you can, but the factory cable is best. If you have issues try and score another factory cable.
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OK, I was going to call Samsung and try to get one about a month ago but just forgot about it. Anywaay, about to download the stuff and brick my phone ahahahaha
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i agree %1000 with Droid...since using his guide, running cm7 now, my device FLIES !!!!!.....this is a sweet phone, just follow guide and you will see.
icemanwbs said:
i agree %1000 with Droid...since using his guide, running cm7 now, my device FLIES !!!!!.....this is a sweet phone, just follow guide and you will see.
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OK. Any major bugs I should be worried about? What's the chance of it frying my SD?
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I would go to Verizon store and get a cable. But no, no bugs or anything. READ READ and READ again through guide so you can Follow steps
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Ok, I need some help. When I click start and all the stuff is selected in Odin, and it says that the eclair thing is unrecognizable... It says it has an unvalid MD5 sum or something like that. HELP?!
And yes, I have retried downloading and using a different browser... Is it OK if I use froyo?
If you read thru Droidstyles guide listed in his reply to you. It says you can use froyo.....you must pay close attention to details and follow guide steps to a " T ". You can do it, I'm sure.
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Modems

I don't know much about modems but I'm on cm10 right now and wondering if I need to change my modem at all. When I look at my phone it says baseband version I717UCLE2 is this the correct modem and if not how and where do I flash the correct one for my rom? I have searched but don't really know what I'm searching for, wasn't sure if the Tom included the correct modems, thx guys
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Are you getting lots of dropped calls? If you already get good service there isn't much reason to switch.
If you want to do it it's pretty easy.
You use CWM or TWRP recovery or Odin3 on a pc.
Then you simply flash the modem zip and reboot.
Nope no dropped calls is that all a modem is for? I get good signal and all that as well. I don't want to fix something that's not broken. Thx for ur help
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I would stay on that modem. Yes, the modem handles calls, sms, mms, data. If you are good with these services, stay with your modem.
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False: Nandroids do not contain the modem.
To test one out you would need a zip of your original modern to flash back to, a nandroid will not restore it.
VoluntaryMan said:
If you're just curious you wouldn't hurt anything by doing a nandroid backup and trying the UCLF6 modem. If you get worse signal or anything you can always revert to the backup. I personally like being on the newest version of everything.
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Like the lady said - it works fine.
It is possible to mess up by trying a modem.
rangercaptain said:
Like the lady said - it works fine.
It is possible to mess up by trying a modem.
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Wow, I had no idea! Learn new stuff every day I guess.
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There are many posts from users who borked their IMEI by flashing a modem. That number identifies each phone on the network.

Help Not Sure What I Did

I have an Note i717M from Bell Canada that I have unlocked and using t-mobile radios to work with Wind.
For the last two weeks I had nothing but great reception and no black outs. I recently installed Black Star since I tried that ROM I have had almost no connection. I re-flashed ICS Blaze radio which I was using on Stock and CM10 with no issues.
Now no matter what ROM I flash I can't get connected for more then two minutes.
Not sure if anyone can think of anything that might cause this.
I am convinced it's not the radio because it works with my rogers account just fine when I flash the stock radio back to the phone.
Also I can connect to Wind Away on the stock radio no problem and stay connected with full bars.
Could it be the kernel?
Got it working I had to do the full flash in odin each of the partitions. Something must have been corrupted pretty bad. As soon as i flashed all the stock partitions and booted up and got the ics ota. Flashed icsblaze and back to full connectivity.
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It sounds like you just needed to add the right APN settings to the rom for it to work. If you decide to try blackstar again makesure to copy down your APN settings you are currently using.
I got the same problem he does and I don't know how to repartition my phone can someone help me
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Sk84all20 said:
I got the same problem he does and I don't know how to repartition my phone can someone help me
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I guess he used this rom to back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657279
By the way, It's 2.3 stock.. not ICS.
Yeah I went back to bone stock.
Here is the funny thing I have 2 notes, 1 rogers, 1 bell. When I use the rogers phone on darkstar absolutely no issues.
The bell version, it completely knocks out the AWS radio that I use and I am not able to restore it for some reason.
I had to reflash all the partitions to restore it. Tried 3 times same result on the bell version.
Wonder what's different in the i717M vs the i717R
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I guess he used this rom to back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657279
By the way, It's 2.3 stock.. not ICS.
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Sk84all20 said:
I got the same problem he does and I don't know how to repartition my phone can someone help me
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Unless you have a keen understanding of how to partition a device, dont try.
Rather, use Odin or kies to push the factory image to the device, and let it run the partition mapping for you. Otherwise, you can damage the device and brick yourself.
Read up on all things note, in the general section at the top. Use the "super thread" and find the issue you are looking for.
Also, you can general search for the answers, as they are covered in many threads in this section.....g

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