Hi just bought my sgs2 few days ago and installed my first custom r roms, some of it come with nice crt off animation and all of them on my phone don't look as should, so I start to worry about my device.
When I press the power button in standard behaviour of this animation screen getting plain white colour for a moment and than is covered by a black bars from all four sides but in my phone the white background is full of some rubbish black/white dots and lines as typical memory bug or something with gpu, there is no other problems with this phone. I have tried many times with different roms, formatted cache and data, dalvik and all what possible but with no results.
Any of you noticed something like that? My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom so no option to explain in shop what actually is wrong.
Or maybe this is a normal behaviour in this phone?
Another thing if I trying to get back to any of 2.3.3 stock rom I finishing with bootloop every time.
Thanks for all help
Obecny said:
Hi just bought my sgs2 few days ago and installed my first custom r roms, some of it come with nice crt off animation and all of them on my phone don't look as should, so I start to worry about my device.
When I press the power button in standard behaviour of this animation screen getting plain white colour for a moment and than is covered by a black bars from all four sides but in my phone the white background is full of some rubbish black/white dots and lines as typical memory bug or something with gpu, there is no other problems with this phone. I have tried many times with different roms, formatted cache and data, dalvik and all what possible but with no results.
Any of you noticed something like that? My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom so no option to explain in shop what actually is wrong.
Or maybe this is a normal behaviour in this phone?
Another thing if I trying to get back to any of 2.3.3 stock rom I finishing with bootloop every time.
Thanks for all help
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crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
designgears said:
crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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You right, it coming back soon as I type my pin number, before pin is alright.thanks
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Obecny said:
My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom
As you void warranty by rooting and or custom rom you would need to restore to original or at least stock firmware and reset the custom rom counter to zero via usb jig .
jje
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When in airplane mode it works correctly. Everyone has this problem, I really dont understand why rom devs put the effect in because it looks horrible.
Even in airplane mode it does not look like it should, its all white. But it is supposed to look like your screen distorting to red green and blue and then stretch out to the sides.
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designgears said:
crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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oh so no point to flash screeenOff animation because is lagg, and only reboot can fix, but it will come back in time?
I was think is only me like that !!! !!
OK so I agree with:
"I really dont understand why rom devs put the effect in because it looks horrible"
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Ok so I was a victim of theft and got my Thunderbolt stolen, sux I know so I got my replacement brand new. I rooted following jcase's thread then proceeded to flash B.A.M.F. 1.7, clean wiped everything about 4 times to be on the safe side. The problem is it wont boot past the splash screen...just flashes goes black vibrates flashes goes black. Thought it was the Rom so tried The perfect Storm and same thing also tried flashing different kernels and still the the same s**t and its really starting to piss me off. With a battery pull i can get into recovery but i dunno what the f**k is up. I succeeded once at a full boot but when i reboot for whatever reason its the same s**t all over again. I don't know what to do or how to figure this out any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all for reading and thanks for your time!
Are you wiping data and cache before flashing each ROM?
bd1212 said:
Are you wiping data and cache before flashing each ROM?
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yes sir religiously
How long have you waited for it to go past the boot flash screen? Sometimes it might take a while to boot up because it is your first time booting up after all.......
Smok3d said:
How long have you waited for it to go past the boot flash screen? Sometimes it might take a while to boot up because it is your first time booting up after all.......
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I wish I could take video it'd be more easy to understand, so screen lights up says HTC with white background then goes blank then flashes HTC screen again then goes blank I don't even see the bootanimation it never reaches that point i let it do this till the battery died....nothing no change....
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I wish I could take video it'd be more easy to understand, so screen lights up says HTC with white background then goes blank then flashes HTC screen again then goes blank I don't even see the bootanimation it never reaches that point i let it do this till the battery died....nothing no change....
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That sounds bad, can you get it back to stock to see if it works?
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That sounds bad, can you get it back to stock to see if it works?
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When I hboot Jcase's custom mr1 it all works out good but it just doesn't have all the goodies the custom Roms have, (sigh) well ima try gingerbread see how that works out...any developer or anyone with far more knowledge than me got any idea what i could try or any more help...
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When I hboot Jcase's custom mr1 it all works out good but it just doesn't have all the goodies the custom Roms have, (sigh) well ima try gingerbread see how that works out...any developer or anyone with far more knowledge than me got any idea what i could try or any more help...
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Be very careful using GB. It has a somewhat annoying habit of bricking phones. I wish I could offer some better advice about the ROMs. I used to have that happen on my D1. Some ROMs just didn't like it. Have you tried flashing the ROM, when it gets hung, do a battery pull and then try to reboot it? Sometimes that will get it past whatever is messing with it.
I just recently bought an Atrix 4G off a friend for 50 bucks so I'm not complaining at all.
This phone went through hell, I couldn't stand looking at the back cover it was so abused, I ended up buying a new one along with a battery. Now my only problem; the digitizer has an area of the screen, goes from the home key all the way up the screen, that isn't responsive and sometimes causes the screen to tweak out and select random things and sometimes goes completely unresponsive until i lock/unlock the phone again. Also the back and home keys are really hit or miss when they work. I just ordered a new digitizer and it should be here this week, I'm curious if this will fix it. Also I plan on replacing or removing the screen anyways since the ffc somehow has dust on the inside of the lens Anyway to prevent this in the future with this phone?
You wouldn't have happened to position your internal drive? If so, sounds like pds issue. Relatively easy to fix with moto fastboot. Google search pds fix Atrix
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I haven't messed with any of that, the most I've done is flashed Neutrino EE rom. Which is also giving me issues, but since I'm new to this board I cannot complain about it yet. I'll give the fastboot a try.
Would one for gingerbread work for my rom, I don't want to brick my phone
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damn.. it didn't work. I followed this thread h t t p : / /w w w . atrixforums. com / forum / motorola-atrix-help/7321-pds-partition-fix-screen-cpus-frequency-restored.html
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damn.. it didn't work. I followed this thread h t t p : / /w w w . atrixforums. com / forum / motorola-atrix-help/7321-pds-partition-fix-screen-cpus-frequency-restored.html
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So did that link work?
It's definitiely the neutrino rom. My phone has been working fine for ever and I flashed Neutrino and sure enough, same issue you are having. Now flashing any other rom has not fixed it. I'm going to try this partition fix when i'm at home, can't do fastboot at work.
Interesting. I just ran into this exact issue. I already ordered a new digitizer. I did flash Neutrino EE a while ago but only kept it for a day. I have a hard time believing the ROM will cause it. Might try that PDS fix but I'm afraid of any unwanted side effects. I thought I remember to never mess with the PDS.
I don't think it has to do with anything software related. I had this problem before and did my researching, turns out a lot of people encounter these issues. Even with stock roms, people that had never even rooted their phone. Screen wise this phone is a piece of ____. Had to exchange mine and now this new one is starting to act up again.
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well here is the pdsfix.img if ya want to try it http://db.tt/mRStSurc
save to Root of sdcard not in any folder
then
to install use Android terminal emulator
type
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/pdsfix.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
then hit enter
it should then read somthing like this
4096+0 records IN
4096+0 records out
2097152 bytes transfered in 2.746 secs (763711 bytes/sec)
then reboot and then ya should
be good as new
i have used it 3x now it works!
and yes the last time was when i was running neutreno rom g+ then wiped
and went back to darkside and thats when it messed up for me
THIS SHOULD ONLY BE USED IF ;
all your touch buttons on the phone
dont work AT ALL the keyboard work but
doesnt type Write when you touch a spcific letter
Also cant open anything like app drawer/settings / You lost your boot.img
and it was replaced with 14 differnt options. and a battery pull or fastboot -w and flashing a new rom didnt work!
PDS fix did nothing. Thanks for the suggestion though. Hoping the digitizer takes care of it whenever it arrives from Hong Kong.
It's not the Neutrino rom, it had this problem before hand when the phone was stock and unrooted.
So the pds did NOTHING. I replaced the screen and all my home keys work great now, the vertical line of nothingness turned horizontal towards the top of the screen AND my phone gets locked into a black screen when I make calls now??? What the hell??? This is really starting to piss me off.
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It's not the Neutrino rom, it had this problem before hand when the phone was stock and unrooted.
So the pds did NOTHING. I replaced the screen and all my home keys work great now, the vertical line of nothingness turned horizontal towards the top of the screen AND my phone gets locked into a black screen when I make calls now??? What the hell??? This is really starting to piss me off.
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are ya still running a neutreno rom
cause sometimes when i made a call
the screen would like go to sleep and wouldnt wakeup till they hung up or i rebooted its a issue a few people were haveing in the dev thread of neutreno
but it could be a cm7 weekly issue too
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Yeah I'm still on board with Neutrino, it seems to run a lot smoother than stock, it's the only other rom I've tried. I really like it.
It's defiantly the screen... When I'm in a call and it's locked into the black screen and I push the screen down into the phone it unlocks from the call.
I also tried the pdsfix from terminal and it didn't work.
Sometimes it wont even turn the screen off now........
as soon as u connect to a call
push the home button it your screen timeout is low like. ,30 try 2 min
but when in a call dont leave the dailer open backout to the homesceen should work "untill the phone gos to sleep.
and my pds issue didnt arise till
i flashed back to a blur rom (darkside)
it could have neen my fault too cause it was late on newyears eve and flashing roms and taquila dont mix IMHO, :sly:
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The phone will still lock itself...
Is the Atrix 2 any better of a phone because I could care less about the fingerprint scanner and the docks.
well in my opinion the atrix 2 Not in anyway better it almost seems worse(not much because its still an atrix
because The main selling points of the atrix is the dual core processer and the fingerprint scanner)
well i can confirm
wipe data
wipe cache
wipe dalvic
and flash eather the stable cm7
build or a lite blur rom
WILL correct this issue :screwy:
I'll give it a try, and suggested lite blur roms... I really dont like motoblur at all its crap
I'm just looking for something that runs smoothly and has good battery life.
And so far I really like everything about the atrix, exactly what I want.. just these screen and call issues make me want to grab another phone....
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I'll give it a try, and suggested lite blur roms... I really dont like motoblur at all its crap
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no on darkside roms you Can skip
motoblur setup I did and use a gmail app also with darkside 4.5.5 you also get landscape hdmi mirroring too
witch is BEAST with shadowgun game
(it was made for tegra2 devices )
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Its the screen -.-
Heya
I've been searching around and havn't found any issues like this
But granted it's hard to describe and thus hard to search for
My Galaxy S2 is new (A few weeks) yet since new has had this issue. When powering the screen on (Lockscreen) the screen displays a white vertical line just left of the middle of the screen before powering on.
This line is NOT visible at all at any other time. Ran some screen tests without any evidence. Seems only to occur before unlocking
I have compared it side-by-side with my brothers Galaxy S2 so I know this isn't normal
Occasionally it will power-on normally but this is quite rare.
Had this issue from Stock, moved from rom to rom without change
Is this something to worry about? Could this be a sign of a failing screen, lose cable, crappy connection etc?
Is it worth sending it back under warranty?
The last thing I want it to do is to fail after the warranty expires
Cheers!
Azurren said:
Heya
I've been searching around and havn't found any issues like this
But granted it's hard to describe and thus hard to search for
My Galaxy S2 is new (A few weeks) yet since new has had this issue. When powering the screen on (Lockscreen) the screen displays a white vertical line just left of the middle of the screen before powering on.
This line is NOT visible at all at any other time. Ran some screen tests without any evidence. Seems only to occur before unlocking
I have compared it side-by-side with my brothers Galaxy S2 so I know this isn't normal
Occasionally it will power-on normally but this is quite rare.
Had this issue from Stock, moved from rom to rom without change
Is this something to worry about? Could this be a sign of a failing screen, lose cable, crappy connection etc?
Is it worth sending it back under warranty?
The last thing I want it to do is to fail after the warranty expires
Cheers!
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Sorry buddy, but It's really no prob.
It's an effect called CTR-animation (on or off)
This is an effect from an old TV turning on oder off.
So the display get crashed on a small line and goes off (CTR-off) or the display build up from white line (CTR-on)
If u using a Rom, just check ur apps for JKAY Deluxe... That's the app which manage such things.
There u can search for the two effects and turn on or off.
CHEERS ;-)
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Heh thanks for your input
But it doesn't look anything like the CRT animations, nor is it pretty and well animated (And its a vertical, non-centred line. not a horizontal one
Also this was still present on the stock Samsung Rom
Azurren said:
Heh thanks for your input
But it doesn't look anything like the CRT animations, nor is it pretty and well animated (And its a vertical, non-centred line. not a horizontal one
Also this was still present on the stock Samsung Rom
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Oh... Then sorry buddy.
Hmm if also on stock u maybe should think about using ur guarantee (flashing on original back first, for sure).
That's really strange.
CHEERS ;-)
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Ahhh well, was hoping I wasn't going to have to go down the warranty line
So, directly to samsung or through Mobiles.co.uk?
In the UK the seller is responsible for the warranty .
But you can go direct to Samsung .
Root or custom rom will void warranty restore to stock and reset custom rom counter .
jje
JJEgan said:
In the UK the seller is responsible for the warranty .
But you can go direct to Samsung .
Root or custom rom will void warranty restore to stock and reset custom rom counter .
jje
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Cheers guys..
Guess I'm going to be without a phone for a while
Ok guys here's my situation. I purchased a brand new galaxy s2 (at&t) about 3 months ago (craigslist) and an issue has recently popped up. When I press the power button to turn on the lockscreen, a white line very briefly flashes down the screen. This doesn't happen at any other point at all, only when i turn to the lockscreen. I contacted samsung about it and they told me to take it to an At&T store to get it checked out. The problem is i purchased this from craigslist so I am not the original owner and I do not have the original receipt. There's no way AT&T is going to replace my phone then, right? what do i do?? any help would be appreciated.
Just let them know that you bought it on craigslist I'm sure as long as it wasn't reported stolen they should do something for you. Tho you might have to pay
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Same kind of thing happened to me when I was on Verizon (so take this with a grain of salt), I traded my DroidX2 for a Thunderbolt. When I activated, Verizon informed me, I would retain the balance of the original warranty. AT&T does not warranty your phone, nor do they repair it, they act as an agent for Samsung in this regard. You should be able to find out when the phone was purchased from Samsung and you'd have 1 years warranty from that date.
If not, do you have insurance? Do you have a receipt from whomever you bought it from? The warranty is applied to the device not the owner usually, it should be transferable, although the laws on this would vary from state to state.
it still has the 1 year warranty but i don't have the original receipt nor is at&t my service provider. I unlocked the phone to work on another carrier. So if i were to walk in to an AT&T store would they replace it on the spot?
Call Samsung. I bought a Motorola Atrix from some girl on Craigslist. It ended up breaking a week later. I called Motorola and they said it was still covered under the one year warranty and told me to send it in. I got it a few weeks later working fine.
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Momar99 said:
Ok guys here's my situation. I purchased a brand new galaxy s2 (at&t) about 3 months ago (craigslist) and an issue has recently popped up. When I press the power button to turn on the lockscreen, a white line very briefly flashes down the screen. This doesn't happen at any other point at all, only when i turn to the lockscreen. . . .
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The problem you mention. . .you didn't happen to flash or install something that uses CRT animation did you? My phone does the same thing (horizontal line flash, middle of the screen) but it's built into the ROM. My apologies if you know the difference between the animation and a glitch. Just checking.
That sounds exactly like crt animation to me..
Assuming that isn't it, simply call Samsung USA. They will want the imei number to verify its not stolen and in warranty.
They will then email you a ups shipping label and rma info free of charge. Send it to Texas and you should see it back in 5-7 days.
They don't care if you are the original owner or not, just that it has a good imei.
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i don't know what crt animation is but i know that its a hardware issue because it happens even on the stock rom.
Momar99 said:
i don't know what crt animation is but i know that its a hardware issue because it happens even on the stock rom.
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Are you absolutely certain you're completely stock? Maybe the previous owner was on stock rooted?
that might be it... what is crt anyway? how do i get rid of the line?
Momar99 said:
that might be it... what is crt anyway? how do i get rid of the line?
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CRT = Cathode Ray Tube. Old television. The CRT animation others are talking about is the emulation of the slow screen shutdown that ended with a white line across the middle of the screen that flicked off.
Where is the line your talking about, is it across the narrow part of the screen or along the long axis?
You can also check your phone under settings>About Phone> Build Number: See what is says. Also check your settings for an app called SU or SuperSU, that indicate superuser and root.
Wink
CRT animation is a feature on some phone that makes the display "flash" like an old-timey CRT monitor when you turn it on or off. It can be enabled on rooted Galaxy S2s.
First off, let's figure out if you're rooted or not. Do you have either the SuperUser app or the SuperSU app in your app drawer?
EDIT: Dang, beat me to it...
Winklie said:
CRT = Cathode Ray Tube. Old television. The CRT animation others are talking about is the emulation of the slow screen shutdown that ended with a white line across the middle of the screen that flicked off.
Where is the line your talking about, is it across the narrow part of the screen or along the long axis?
You can also check your phone under settings>About Phone> Build Number: See what is says. Also check your settings for an app called SU or SuperSU, that indicate superuser and root.
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ohhh i knew what that was... i just didn't know its called crt. The white line flashes from the top of the phone to bottom of the phone when i TURN ON the lockscreen, not turn it off. so it's not crt... correct?
Momar99 said:
ohhh i knew what that was... i just didn't know its called crt. The white line flashes from the top of the phone to bottom of the phone when i TURN ON the lockscreen, not turn it off. so it's not crt... correct?
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Top to bottom?? It's not any CRT animation that I've ever seen...
ok thanks. that's what i thought. crt doesn't even have animation for turning the lockscreen ON. so it definitely has to be a hardware issue. I'll call AT&T, thanks.
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crt doesn't even have animation for turning the lockscreen ON.
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Yes it does. There is a CRT On animation and a CRT Off animation.
not on the aokp rom
CRT is the effect of old school TVs. When you turn the screen off, closes up into a horizontal line in the center of the screen for like half a second.
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Sorry I was way late.
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mattdm said:
Yes it does. There is a CRT On animation and a CRT Off animation.
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This.
And the on animation is usually vertical vs the horizontal off animation.
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video of whats happening on boot
i cant post hyperlinks as i am a new user so h ttp://youtu.be/FiAOk02Vybk
there is a space on the h in http just to highlight
it goes on to have the bottom led keys working and the top color led works too i heard a notification from it so i think its a software issue
i can boot it into the downloading mode by pressing power+volume down+ home key and the whole screen works
I haven't rooted or done anything at all to my phone a week or so ago i had it in a dry box which had water in it somehow anyway 1 week on rice it seems fine but this is happening
Please help
Waden18 said:
video of whats happening on boot
i cant post hyperlinks as i am a new user so h ttp://youtu.be/FiAOk02Vybk
there is a space on the h in http just to highlight
it goes on to have the bottom led keys working and the top color led works too i heard a notification from it so i think its a software issue
i can boot it into the downloading mode by pressing power+volume down+ home key and the whole screen works
I haven't rooted or done anything at all to my phone a week or so ago i had it in a dry box which had water in it somehow anyway 1 week on rice it seems fine but this is happening
Please help
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Looks like water damage for sure.. does the screen do that at all when it is completely booted?
I have personally never seen a boot animation do that from a software standpoint..actually I take that back..I have but it has failed to boot..this while porting from and different device with different screen resolution
lacoursiere18 said:
Looks like water damage for sure.. does the screen do that at all when it is completely booted?
I have personally never seen a boot animation do that from a software standpoint..actually I take that back..I have but it has failed to boot..this while porting from and different device with different screen resolution
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so you think just the water? but i can get it to the download screen fine so that makes me think it its a software thing, also when it is completely booted it has just a black screen nothing on it the touch keys on the bottom still work along with the top led and i randomly heard a notification from it also makes me think some weird software thing as i can make the display work in the download mode
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so you think just the water? but i can get it to the download screen fine so that makes me think it its a software thing, also when it is completely booted it has just a black screen nothing on it the touch keys on the bottom still work along with the top led and i randomly heard a notification from it also makes me think some weird software thing as i can make the display work in the download mode
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Hmm.. yea that would not make sense. I would try to Odin flash a stock img. You can find the thread in General section on how to restore to stock
lacoursiere18 said:
Hmm.. yea that would not make sense. I would try to Odin flash a stock img. You can find the thread in General section on how to restore to stock
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Thank you so much for helping man
also do you think that would mess with a warranty or something with Verizon?
Waden18 said:
Thank you so much for helping man
also do you think that would mess with a warranty or something with Verizon?
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No. If you Odin a stock img like for instance MC3, which is the official Verizon release, it will not. You only mess with the warranty when rooting your phone.
Did you take the 4.4.2 OTA? If so then you need to use that instead. If you don't have it I can provide a link