Hey,
I've bought a G2. After I rooted it, I noticed the "rooted"-status in the downloadmode. I've read about it. I now fear that I can not exchange the unit if something is broken. The warranty is void?
So i tought about to send it back to amazon (14 days time to send it back) and get another phone?! Do you think this is ja good idea or stupid?
Thx for help.
I've never rooted a phone before but I read that when you successfully unroot the LG G2, the 'rooted' status goes away.
From what I've read, G2's bootloader is unlocked, so you can root and unroot withou LG knowing it. But take a look to the thread "return to stock".
yyz123 said:
I've never rooted a phone before but I read that when you successfully unroot the LG G2, the 'rooted' status goes away.
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The problem is, that I can no longer unroot the device, when it should be broken. That is the real problem...
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whit "another phone" i mean not a G2. i think i will buy the Sony Z1 or Htc One
I have reconsigned (returned?... send back... you know what i mean :silly: ) the device. I think I'll buy a Sony. So I have no problems with the root.
Cic3ro said:
I have reconsigned (returned?... send back... you know what i mean :silly: ) the device. I think I'll buy a Sony. So I have no problems with the root.
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hope you don't mess the sony up! the g2 is a far better phone than the sony - if you root, you can unroot and the "rooted" returns to" unrooted" better luck next time
it sounds to me like you have messed your phone up and now you want to send it back and you expect a new one. if I was the person at the other end I would have voided your warranty and if you cant sort it im afraid you should not be flashing anything until you know what you are doing there are far too many people doing this and then returning their phones as "faulty" when basically they messed it up what happens when you do the same to the sony -will u just send that back as well- no wonder manufactures are making it more difficult for people to root in the first place please don't keep doing this as it just makes it worse for the rest of us,who flash stuff and know what they are doing--rant over, hope you take a little time to learn what you are doing in future.
martindar said:
hope you don't mess the sony up! the g2 is a far better phone than the sony - if you root, you can unroot and the "rooted" returns to" unrooted" better luck next time
it sounds to me like you have messed your phone up and now you want to send it back and you expect a new one. if I was the person at the other end I would have voided your warranty and if you cant sort it im afraid you should not be flashing anything until you know what you are doing there are far too many people doing this and then returning their phones as "faulty" when basically they messed it up what happens when you do the same to the sony -will u just send that back as well- no wonder manufactures are making it more difficult for people to root in the first place please don't keep doing this as it just makes it worse for the rest of us,who flash stuff and know what they are doing--rant over, hope you take a little time to learn what you are doing in future.
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no haha. i think you don't understand me (or i'm to dopy to write understandable english....). the device is not broken. i was thinking about, what could happen, if the device is broken and rooted. i know how to root or flash some rom. that is not my problem. the problem is, that LG has a rootchecker and Sony literally allows the root and flashing roms without unlocking the bootloader. this is why i want to send the G2 back and buy a new Z1.
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no haha. i think you don't understand me (or i'm to dopy to write understandable english....). the device is not broken. i was thinking about, what could happen, if the device is broken and rooted. i know how to root or flash some rom. that is not my problem. the problem is, that LG has a rootchecker and Sony literally allows the root and flashing roms without unlocking the bootloader. this is why i want to send the G2 back and buy a new Z1.
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To my understanding most of the newer devices have indicators buried in the settings to list rooted.
As long as the device powers on you can unroot the LG with the return to stock method and it will show unrooted. You just boot into download mode, and run the tools listed.
If it doesn't power on... then does it matter? It wouldn't be viewable under standard warranty anyways.
Enjoy the other phone if that's your choice, but you made a poor one IMHO.
digitard said:
To my understanding most of the newer devices have indicators buried in the settings to list rooted.
As long as the device powers on you can unroot the LG with the return to stock method and it will show unrooted. You just boot into download mode, and run the tools listed.
If it doesn't power on... then does it matter? It wouldn't be viewable under standard warranty anyways.
Enjoy the other phone if that's your choice, but you made a poor one IMHO.
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Agreed but it still shows rooted in download mode after going back to stock.
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Agreed but it still shows rooted in download mode after going back to stock.
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I don't believe so.
I have the ATT version, and I nuked it with a bad flash and a brain fart that caused me to forget to backup first in TWRP.
I couldn't get anything on the device so I did the restore to stock using the flash tool, and when I was done I'm pretty sure it showed green until I rooted it again.
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I don't believe so.
I have the ATT version, and I nuked it with a bad flash and a brain fart that caused me to forget to backup first in TWRP.
I couldn't get anything on the device so I did the restore to stock using the flash tool, and when I was done I'm pretty sure it showed green until I rooted it again.
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Ah mine showed rooted but I tried the back to stock for all variants and it didn't work (worked the first time not the second) so then I did the vzw only back to stock and that worked but still showed rooted in download mode.
After the unroot yesterday the "rooted" in the downloadmode was gone too
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My Vibrant is telling me that T-Mobile has kindly sent me an update. I think it must be the GPS fix. It is rather persistent in that it won't let me choose when to install it. It will only allow me to delay for at most a day. This is quite annoying as I am preparing for a trip and really don't want to mess around with my phone right now.
I am running Vibrant9. Do I want to install this update? Is it gonna break anything? Thanks!
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My Vibrant is telling me that T-Mobile has kindly sent me an update. I think it must be the GPS fix. It is rather persistent in that it won't let me choose when to install it. It will only allow me to delay for at most a day. This is quite annoying as I am preparing for a trip and really don't want to mess around with my phone right now.
I am running Vibrant9. Do I want to install this update? Is it gonna break anything? Thanks!
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Shouldn't break anything. Most are still waiting for the update. Personally I was impatient and flashed it through ODIN last night.
OK. I accepted the update. Phone is now stuck on "Vibrant" at reboot. Sigh. Proceeding to trying to restore ROM.
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OK. I accepted the update. Phone is now stuck on "Vibrant" at reboot. Sigh. Proceeding to trying to restore ROM.
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Go to the Development section that are a few threads about this. I looks like anyone with a lag fix, or GPS fix (from JI2) where having this issue, plus I have seen stock people having it too.
Or you can go read my blog post here. the post tells the steps I took to get back the JFD, but you could flash JI6 instead.
you will need to flash JI6 with ODIN to restore, you can not just do a nandroid restore, it is an issue with the kernel and nandroid does not restore/backup the kernel.
*facepalm*@Samsung
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803492
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*facepalm*@Samsung
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It's not Samsung or T-Mobile.. its that the OP performed tweaks so the ROM wasn't a 100.00% version of Stock. Tweaks including lag fixes, GPS fix, etc can cause this.
Personally, I don't know why if you're performing tweaks on your phone and are on a stock ROM. If you're going to tweak your phone, go the full way and tweak everything.
This is why t-mobile had the G2 nand locked..... so this type of user error won't cost them millions, replacing phones that the user messed up with blind stupidity.... that's only for the ones under warranty, you can still call in a lost phone and get replacements..
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This is why t-mobile had the G2 nand locked..... so this type of user error won't cost them millions, replacing phones that the user messed up with blind stupidity.... that's only for the ones under warranty, you can still call in a lost phone and get replacements..
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So now instead, they get flooded with returns because the phone isn't what people expected.
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It's not Samsung or T-Mobile.. its that the OP performed tweaks so the ROM wasn't a 100.00% version of Stock. Tweaks including lag fixes, GPS fix, etc can cause this.
Personally, I don't know why if you're performing tweaks on your phone and are on a stock ROM. If you're going to tweak your phone, go the full way and tweak everything.
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That's not true, it is Samsung/T-Mobile fault. I know 3 people with 100% stock, unrooted, vibrants, 2 of them got stuck when they updated. the t-mobile forums filled with stock users with their phone stuck at the vibrant screen as well.
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That's not true, it is Samsung/T-Mobile fault. I know 3 people with 100% stock, unrooted, vibrants, 2 of them got stuck when they updated. the t-mobile forums filled with stock users with their phone stuck at the vibrant screen as well.
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And what are the chances of this?
Everybody lies.. especially when they're desperate and unwilling to accept the fact that they modified their phone. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't lie to T-Mobile and say that they didn't modify their phones if its "bricked." Because it is not bricked, all it takes is download mode and Odin. There are threads out there that break down on how to use Odin, it's not that difficult to do.
This is why I don't endorse "One Click" anything unless it is a long process. Sure, it makes everything easier but it makes people not think about what they're doing before they do it. Before one clicking, rooting was so simple, put something on your internal sd and boot into recovery and hit reinstall packages. If something like that is too difficult then they shouldn't be doing any modifications in the first place unless they understanding what they're doing.
The T-Mobile forum is not a valid source because there is no concrete proof that they didn't root their phone and modified something. Even rooting and removing bloatware then removing access to root would cause this.
Edit: Looking at the OP's recent posts.. he did indeed run a custom ROM but has possibly did some tweaking after reverting back to stock?
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And what are the chances of this?
Everybody lies.. especially when they're desperate and unwilling to accept the fact that they modified their phone. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't lie to T-Mobile and say that they didn't modify their phones if its "bricked." Because it is not bricked, all it takes is download mode and Odin. There are threads out there that break down on how to use Odin, it's not that difficult to do.
This is why I don't endorse "One Click" anything unless it is a long process. Sure, it makes everything easier but it makes people not think about what they're doing before they do it. Before one clicking, rooting was so simple, put something on your internal sd and boot into recovery and hit reinstall packages. If something like that is too difficult then they shouldn't be doing any modifications in the first place unless they understanding what they're doing.
The T-Mobile forum is not a valid source because there is no concrete proof that they didn't root their phone and modified something. Even rooting and removing bloatware then removing access to root would cause this.
Edit: Looking at the OP's recent posts.. he did indeed run a custom ROM but has possibly did some tweaking after reverting back to stock?
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Well, I know the 2 people that updated stock and got stuck at the vibrant screen were 100% stock because they both called me on what they need to do. one came over and I fixed it with ODIN back to stock (JI6) and the other just said he'd call TMO and get a replacement. they dont even know what rooting is, or that there is a site like that that they can get files to do "one click root"
OK. I'm the OP and I'm back. I was traveling today (with a phone flashed back to stock - that's as far as I got before getting kicked out of the hotel). I've now got the ROM restored and I'm where I was before trying to install the update.
My question is this (probably simple): my phone still wants to do the update. How do I make it go away? I can't install it, and I don't want to have to postpone it every day. Is there a cache I can clear or something?
You could just update it through Odin. I'm on stock with root and JAC's oc/uv kernel and the OTA failed but Odin worked perfectly.
Yes, I will try to flash it with odin when I have the time and interest, but for now I have neither, and I just want the phone to stop bugging me. Ideas?
JJMT said:
Yes, I will try to flash it with odin when I have the time and interest, but for now I have neither, and I just want the phone to stop bugging me. Ideas?
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It will only stop once you are on JI6
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It will only stop once you are on JI6
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OK. I guess I will have to try to push the update through odin. Can someone point me to a link to the files?
I'm kind of irritated by this whole thing. I'm pleased with tmo for pushing the update out, but I mean, really, even Windows allows you to decline to install an update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=798125
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=798125
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Thanks for the link. It really looks to me that I'm going to need to flash to a stock ROM before flashing JI6. That, as they say, is a bummer.
As I am actually quite content at the moment with Vibrant9, it really seems to me that it would be easier to somehow remove whatever it is on my phone that is requesting that I update. Presumably there is an update.zip file sitting somewhere, that will be copied into sdcard before the updater involves reboot recovery. Any ideas where to look?
I would really rather not do any further flashing until is an official Froyo to flash to.
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So now instead, they get flooded with returns because the phone isn't what people expected.
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Flooded with returns by morons who think they are smart.
Sorry, I have more questions again..
1) Every time I change the live wallpaper or close a game, my live wall paper has static noise on it on my home screen. Is this normal after flashing, or should I be concerned? The phone is overclocked (Megatron)
2) If I decide to go back to the original LG firmware by downloading it via this forum and flashing, and if I un-root my phone will I be able to download the official LG firmware updates or will this brick my phone (even after un-rooting and flashing)? And if it is possible, does this mean that the warranty is technically not void and if I've got probs with the phone, LG will repair it?
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2) If I decide to go back to the original LG firmware by downloading it via this forum and flashing, and if I un-root my phone will I be able to download the official LG firmware updates or will this brick my phone (even after un-rooting and flashing)? And if it is possible, does this mean that the warranty is technically not void and if I've got probs with the phone, LG will repair it?
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FnH84 said:
1) Every time I change the live wallpaper or close a game, my live wall paper has static noise on it on my home screen. Is this normal after flashing, or should I be concerned? The phone is overclocked (Megatron)
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Even the developer of Megatron doesn't recommend people to use live wallpaper... so it would be hard to say what or where the problem is.
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2) If I decide to go back to the original LG firmware by downloading it via this forum and flashing, and if I un-root my phone will I be able to download the official LG firmware updates or will this brick my phone (even after un-rooting and flashing)? And if it is possible, does this mean that the warranty is technically not void and if I've got probs with the phone, LG will repair it?
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That is exactly what people on this forum do. If they ever need any repairs made on the phone through LG service centre, they flash it back to stock so that it is still under warranty. The method they use here will return it FULLY to stock, including apps, custom recovery, and it even automatically unroots your phone. You will then be able to upgrade your firmware through official LG updater. Although, certain updates won't allow you to root it afterwards, so just make sure you know what you're doing beforehand.
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Even the developer of Megatron doesn't recommend people to use live wallpaper... so it would be hard to say what or where the problem is.
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Oh, I had no idea about that... lol. I changed to a normal wallpaper then. Thanks!
Hello everyone!
About a week ago, I went and bought the S3, my first Android phone. The sales guy told me that the phone is sim free but a Samsung's firmware update caused a bug, and that the phone needed to be sim unlocked because of Samsung's error. Needless to say I knew nothing about the phone (or Android).
After a few days of learning about it, I ended up seeing there is a Voodoo app in the file manager, CWM and SuperSU apps in the app drawer.
I came here to check what that was all about.
After reading extensively I now know that the phone is rooted and was sim unlocked with Voodoo app.
I red all about Voodoo and was impressed that it works with the fix, yet another user said this will cause problems in the future, and I already see some users complaining about their phones not working.
My question is, was the sales person lied to me about the Samsung firmware bug? And also, is the Voodoo app + fix is legit, and I can rest my worries aside?
I wouldn't like to have problems and having to wait for some (wonderful and admirable) dev to fix it, every time there is a firmware update.
Thanks in advance, excuse my noobishness.
If its unlocked.....ITS UNLOCKED
reboot, if its still unlocked then you are good. as far as the problems........i dont know of some sort of samsung bug that would f up a phone.
what are you really asking? will your phone all of sudden brick on you and become useless? i dont think so
In fact, there is no Samsung "bug": Samsung has just improve is Lock system which now break voodoo unlock (on purpose or not...)
In theory, it should only relock phones that had been unlock with voodoo app but here is the tricky thing: some shop sell "fake" unlocked phones!
-they took carrier locked phone
-they flash a stock rom
-they change the EFS file in the same way voodoo app would have done
-they sell it as unlocked
the old lock system do not break this and buyers will probably never see the trick but the new lock system just relock the phone and left people with a locked phone even if they think they have bought an unlocked phone
Just look at this post which is an answer to someone who had a relock on an "unlocked" phone with XXBLG8 firmware
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the old lock system do not break this and buyers will probably never see the trick but the new lock system just relock the phone and left people with a locked phone even if they think they have bought an unlocked phone
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So in fact, from now on, every time I flash an updated rom, I need to pray that samsung didn't (intentionally or not) break the voodoo unlock? Sort of like the Apple's cat and mouse game after the unlocks? Cause I'm not going through that again.
Here is a patch for preventing the sim to be locked after a update http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802951, need root and flash with CWM.
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Here is a patch for preventing the sim to be locked after a update http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802951, need root and flash with CWM.
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Thank you for the reply.
It seems as though the fix is allready applied, the thing that bother me is that
I will need to wait for a fix every time there is an update.
It's just that i'm afraid after owning a locked iphone, that was a nightmare.
Let's say that it is much better and more comfterbale to have an unlocked phone, am i right?
shermenz said:
Thank you for the reply.
It seems as though the fix is allready applied, the thing that bother me is that
I will need to wait for a fix every time there is an update.
It's just that i'm afraid after owning a locked iphone, that was a nightmare.
Let's say that it is much better and more comfterbale to have an unlocked phone, am i right?
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Go back to the shop and request a original simlock free phone then. if it bothers you that much!
shermenz said:
Hello everyone!
About a week ago, I went and bought the S3, my first Android phone. The sales guy told me that the phone is sim free but a Samsung's firmware update caused a bug, and that the phone needed to be sim unlocked because of Samsung's error. Needless to say I knew nothing about the phone (or Android).
After a few days of learning about it, I ended up seeing there is a Voodoo app in the file manager, CWM and SuperSU apps in the app drawer.
You have bought a second hand phone . Its been used rooted voids warranty and apps installed return it .
jje
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Go back to the shop and request a original simlock free phone then. if it bothers you that much!
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Well since I'm new to Android I don't know if it should bother me, with Apple it was horrible, my question essentially is should it bother me?
Does sim locked phones Known to cause problems down the road?
Thank you for spendig the time!
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Well since I'm new to Android I don't know if it should bother me, with Apple it was horrible, my question essentially is should it bother me?
Does sim locked phones Known to cause problems down the road?
Thank you for spendig the time!
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As you are rooted, it is better not to update through Kies or OTA. Kies updates will break root and thus voodoo sim unlock and OTA`s will not be installed as you have a custom recovery. Download future new roms from www.sammobile.com/firmware and flash it with (Mobile) Odin (Pro). See my signature for the procedure. With Mobile Odin Pro you keep root and with pc Odin you will loose root. If in the future you have to send it in for repair warranty can be denied because you are rooted.
Hello, I know it has been posted here million times but I would not like to brick my phone.
I just got my Moto Atrix before 5 months. Quite like the phone but I heard you need to root and unlock the device to experience a great and fast smarthphone so I did. I was using CM7 all the time.
I unlocked my bootloader / root using this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302423
Everything works great but my Wi-fi is starting to weird out and it does not want to work correctly. I wanted it to return it to the shop, so they could fix it / get me a new phone but when I was there the last time, the girl rebooted my phone and saw there the "unlocked" text on Moto logo. She just gave me the phone and said to go out. I would like to remove that Text from there but dont know how. I was reading a lot of posts but everyone was saying : once you unlock bootloader, its permanent. Yes, I know it. I read all FAQs before flashing.
All I want is to remove the text so I can return them the phone.
Thanks
The only known way to do this is to flash the stock SBF. But it has to be exactly the one that was installed before any modding. Yes, that means you'll have to remember what exactly version and variant of the stock firmware you had before. SBFs are extremely dangerous so make absolutely sure you know what you're doing.
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The only known way to do this is to flash the stock SBF. But it has to be exactly the one that was installed before any modding. Yes, that means you'll have to remember what exactly version and variant of the stock firmware you had before. SBFs are extremely dangerous so make absolutely sure you know what you're doing.
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so if I mistake SBF and flash the bad one I will be bricked and I can use phone as hammer ? Am I getting it right?
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so if I mistake SBF and flash the bad one I will be bricked and I can use phone as hammer ? Am I getting it right?
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Very likely.
removing unlocked text
You may want to try this before flashing sbf. This method worked for me. . No guarantee it will work for you . but i think it just might. first thing is to flash the 2,3,4 4591 fruitcake. then update to 2.3.6 45141 from the official motorola software update. the unlock text should be gone if you are successful in doing this. I did this several months ago because my camera led burnt out. good luck. also you may want to try to go to a different store or service center. :fingers-crossed:
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I wanted it to return it to the shop, so they could fix it / get me a new phone but when I was there the last time, the girl rebooted my phone and saw there the "unlocked" text on Moto logo. She just gave me the phone and said to go out.
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You can't return to Motorola? I have not heard of, or read of anyone having issues with an unlocked bootloader when sending in for warranty. Is there a reason you have to return to the shop and not Motorola?
It doesn't need to be the same and exact SBF that was on it originally, it just has to be a SBF that is compatible with your phone. I remember I soft bricked an atrix while rooting it, and flashing an old AT&T SBF hid the UNLOCKED white text.
Basically you need to find out which SBF would be compatible with your phone. It shouldn't brick your phone unless you downgrade firmware, which is a huge no no on the atrix
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You can't return to Motorola? I have not heard of, or read of anyone having issues with an unlocked bootloader when sending in for warranty. Is there a reason you have to return to the shop and not Motorola?
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Got the phone from O2, I dont know if I can return it back to Motorola.
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You can't return to Motorola? I have not heard of, or read of anyone having issues with an unlocked bootloader when sending in for warranty. Is there a reason you have to return to the shop and not Motorola?
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In Singapore, Motorola would not even accept the phone if its only rooted. As long as the phone is modified in some way (unlocked bootloader/ rooted), your warranty is void.
Sent from that Atrix.
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As long as the phone is modified in some way (unlocked bootloader/ rooted), your warranty is void.
Sent from that Atrix.
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Not necessarily my friend. When you unlock the bootloader the text displayed states that unlocking your bootloader MAY void your warranty. It at no time says WILL void your warranty. Now, in Singapore you may have problems returning a phone, but I am assuming he/she is in the UK if on O2. There are a number of threads where people have returned unlocked phones to Motorola and had them repaired or replaced without issue.
OP, doesn't matter if you bought your phone from O2. It will still have a Motorola warranty on it. As long as you are buying new or refurbished from a reputable dealer, then you should be fine. You can go to Motorola's website and check if your phone is in warranty or not.
At the end of the day, worst they can do is tell you that your warranty is void.
i just got mine fixed, no problem with unlocked text on
the only problem they will lock your phone forever before return to you
Bottom line is, no matter what you do, Motorola can easily tell if you've tampered with your phone in an "undesirable" way, and it's ultimately up to them whether that will be a problem or not. Sometimes they are generous and don't care, other times they are merciless *****es and will make your life hell (and charge you for it). YMMV.
Alright so I have a rooted D6708 device. I got an itch today and wanted to explore some custom roms. I was told that I could flash one of these roms onto the device and it would work.
So I did so with the use of TWRP. TWRP said the install was a success and I needed to reboot. So, I rebooted and now it won't load anything. I can get into the stock System Recovery Menu but nothing else. I can't get back into TWRP and I can't get the device to connect to my PC.
What can I do to fix this?
EDIT: I can get the computer to recognize it as "S1 Boot Fastboot" Anything I can do from here?
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Alright so I have a rooted D6708 device. I got an itch today and wanted to explore some custom roms. I was told that I could flash one of these roms onto the device and it would work.
So I did so with the use of TWRP. TWRP said the install was a success and I needed to reboot. So, I rebooted and now it won't load anything. I can get into the stock System Recovery Menu but nothing else. I can't get back into TWRP and I can't get the device to connect to my PC.
What can I do to fix this?
EDIT: I can get the computer to recognize it as "S1 Boot Fastboot" Anything I can do from here?
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I dont own a Z3V however i own a Z3, i haven't experienced boot loop on the Z3, however i have with previous Xperia Devices i solved the issue by installing Flashtool and downloading my stock FTF file.
Seannnn said:
Alright so I have a rooted D6708 device. I got an itch today and wanted to explore some custom roms. I was told that I could flash one of these roms onto the device and it would work.
So I did so with the use of TWRP. TWRP said the install was a success and I needed to reboot. So, I rebooted and now it won't load anything. I can get into the stock System Recovery Menu but nothing else. I can't get back into TWRP and I can't get the device to connect to my PC.
What can I do to fix this?
EDIT: I can get the computer to recognize it as "S1 Boot Fastboot" Anything I can do from here?
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Whoever told you that you can install these doesn't know the z3v. It's a different phone from any other z3 and can't take those custom Rom.
Your best solution is to try the tft install as described in the downgrade section of the root thread. That would bring you back to a stock Verizon.
Seannnn said:
Alright so I have a rooted D6708 device. I got an itch today and wanted to explore some custom roms. I was told that I could flash one of these roms onto the device and it would work.
So I did so with the use of TWRP. TWRP said the install was a success and I needed to reboot. So, I rebooted and now it won't load anything. I can get into the stock System Recovery Menu but nothing else. I can't get back into TWRP and I can't get the device to connect to my PC.
What can I do to fix this?
EDIT: I can get the computer to recognize it as "S1 Boot Fastboot" Anything I can do from here?
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Sorry I did not check your PM much earlier to prevent you from doing this. Whoever did tell you about flashing a custom rom sure does owe you another phone. You have to wait until Verizon brings out the Lollipop rom, but until then, you have to somehow flash back to the original rom that came with. 4.4.4 is enjoyable enough as it is, just the lack of volte is what's the wait for on the Lollipop rom.
A rep told me today that when the Z4v, there's sure likely a quick follow up on releasing the update since they may as well base it off of it. And that's hoping if the new one even gets VoLTE...
Thanks for the help guys, I can access the phone via USB with fastboot. I am trying to flash the ftf file but I don't think I am doing it right or its not working. Is there any way I can switch it to adb mode through a fastboot command?
Sorry I don't entirely know what I am doing.
Seannnn said:
Thanks for the help guys, I can access the phone via USB with fastboot. I am trying to flash the ftf file but I don't think I am doing it right or its not working. Is there any way I can switch it to adb mode through a fastboot command?
Sorry I don't entirely know what I am doing.
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to connect in flashmode you need to hold volume down and connect the phone to the pc with a usb cable
Unfortunately I was not able to get it into flash mode.
Good news is that the phone was still in warranty and I got it replaced for no charge.
Seannnn said:
Unfortunately I was not able to get it into flash mode.
Good news is that the phone was still in warranty and I got it replaced for no charge.
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It's a good thing you were fortunate enough to have it replaced with no charge. Now don't make that same mistake again and wait like the rest of us. At least you confirmed for sure that flashing an incompatible ROM is death of the phone. lol
Seannnn said:
Unfortunately I was not able to get it into flash mode.
Good news is that the phone was still in warranty and I got it replaced for no charge.
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I'm aware that I'm coming across as a jerk for this. That is THE reason they don't want us rooted and such. When people screw it up they expect someone else to pay for the mistake
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I'm aware that I'm coming across as a jerk for this. That is THE reason they don't want us rooted and such. When people screw it up they expect someone else to pay for the mistake
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I agree. People always complain about carriers preventing root and locking boot loader. The main argument is that it doesn't damage the phone. Unfortunately, I've seen many people on xda abuse the system. When they brick their phone through bad flash or when their phone dies after it overheated because they over clocked, they go for warranty replacement.
Can't blame Verizon for trying to avoid these extra costs.
tsachi said:
I agree. People always complain about carriers preventing root and locking boot loader. The main argument is that it doesn't damage the phone. Unfortunately, I've seen many people on xda abuse the system. When they brick their phone through bad flash or when their phone dies after it overheated because they over clocked, they go for warranty replacement.
Can't blame Verizon for trying to avoid these extra costs.
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yes you can... simply exclude warranty on non OEM code... very simple to solve....
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I'm aware that I'm coming across as a jerk for this. That is THE reason they don't want us rooted and such. When people screw it up they expect someone else to pay for the mistake
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That is why the Z3v has a hash code on the phone that shows when you root it and can't be flashed over so they know if it has been rooted even if you flash back to the correct firmware. "Settings>About phone>Status" You send it in they charge you full price.
tsachi said:
I agree. People always complain about carriers preventing root and locking boot loader. The main argument is that it doesn't damage the phone. Unfortunately, I've seen many people on xda abuse the system. When they brick their phone through bad flash or when their phone dies after it overheated because they over clocked, they go for warranty replacement.
Can't blame Verizon for trying to avoid these extra costs.
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Uh, VZW says it is about the "network", not bad flashes on phones. So which is it?
If VZW wasn't so anal about rooting Sony lets you root in a foolproof way, failed rooting is VZW's fault if it happens.
Any one got the solution.... my phone not working
shashikiran said:
Any one got the solution.... my phone not working
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What did you do this time?
no recovery mode
GigaSPX said:
What did you do this time?
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flashed flashable prerooted.zip file and not even getting recovery mode, no charging symbol, only can access fastboot mode. continiously rebooting with vibration. no display
My Z3v is rooted and is working just fine, except the annoying ads I get on my quick charge screen, now.
Anyway... I assume you haven't tried to use the Sony/Verizon Software Upgrade Assistant? It comes on your phone to install to your PC and lets you upgrade (probably never gonna get an upgrade) and factory your phone over USB. Not sure if you can download it, or if it only comes on the phone as a separate partition to install from. Can't hurt to try.