[Motorola Photon 4G] thundercles:
Deodex Disaster

by Thundercles

I dedicate this story to the fact that I have finally for the first time ever been sold an extended warranty/protection plan that I didn't feel ****ed me somehow in the end.

first off tl;dr is; I could really really use a photon 4g box. If I get one within the next week or so I can get a brand new phone and not have to worry about unbricking mine, which should be more then entirely possible to unbrick, just a pain, and actually is close to impossible to unbrick until I get a working battery since no flash utils will run without a well-charged battery. If you have the box left over from when you got the photon 4g and you could part with it, let me know, I'd love you long time. If you are in the phoenix area and you could part with a photon 4g box PM me your phone number and I'll call you and come to you wherever in the entire extended phx metro area you are in to get it. I just drove to freakin Anthem from Tempe to buy a battery that doesn't quite fit. All thos sites that say the BH5X battery fits in the electrify/photon are damn liars btw, it so doesn't.

I will type the sad story of how I thought I remembered how to manually deodex correctly and as a result just went for it only to find out that my memory ****ed a step up somewhere in there, maybe left one out altogether cause when I rebooted it wouldn't go past the inital screen, probably cause it wasn't able to load the framework and app directories thanks to my shenengins. To make matters worse right in the middle of this crisis is when my battery desides to completely **** a brick itself and is fully unresponsive in every way shape or form and will hold maybe 10 seconds worth of charge if you are in fastboot mode, but wont even be able to draw enough charge to display anything on the screen unless plugged into the wall. Ya battery is beyond toast, Went to exchange it with my protection plan from best buy and they informed me that things with that protection plan are handled by mailing out the defunct whatevers and getting the new ones mailed back, but that since I am within my initial 30 days their exchange policy would allow me to just trade the whole kit and kaboodle in for a brand new still in the box and shrink wrapped photon. This was the more attractive option since I wouldn't have to unbrick it and the battery would be brand new and any damage I may have done would be undone.

Problem is box got thrown away, it's not my fault either I specifically said that the box should be kept for now, but didn't feel up to fighting any battles over it that day and now have screwed myself royally as a result of my pacifism. The box specifically is what the chick was being anal about, I'm susppsing cause of the barcode sticker on it. If you are the angel who winds up giving me a box so I can just go to best buy and do the exchange rather then mail my battery in and wait, don't worry I can remove your sticker in tact and remount it on some card-stock for you or something. I'll just want to scan it real fast first to construct the template for my replica sticker containing my phones info. Got all kinds of specialized printers, barcode fonts, sticker maker, envelope label sticers, got everyting I need to make this replica just need a box to put it on.