yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Acer Iconia A500] lemywinks:
*UPDATE*

So I got my tablet back from acer today. I sent it in rooted on a honeycomb lightspeed rom and I got the same a500 (I put a little mark on it) back on a stock 3.2.1 rom. So they don't really care about root as they still fixed the power button. Thanks for the heads up on that one Moscow Desire. It's funny cause my 1 year warranty would have ended on August 15, 15 days from now lol.

I think its time for some ice cream sandwich.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Undead46:
So my Sprint 2-year contract has expired and my father and I are looking to upgrade our EVO 4G's.

Question is, is the Galaxy S III the phone we should get? Or is there something better right around the corner?

-Thanks! :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] lopezpm:
Just get it. There is always something better around the corner.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] BonesHopkins:
This.

It's only two years and you're going to have a cell phone for those two years anyways... I think two years is a pretty good interval for replacing cellphones anyway.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] weedolo9y:
id leave sprints ****ty internet speeds and go to att then get the s3

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] vw671:
I don't believe ANY phone is worth a 2-year contract! But that's me...

I've been buying un-contracted phones for 3-4 years now and haven't looked back:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] seoulstyle:
If you're on Sprint, you may want to consider the EVO 4G LTE too. I've played around with a friends and it's pretty sexy stuff.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] DCRocks:
Is it worth the upgrade, YES!

Any other choices... well, you could always buy the original Epic for around $200 off contract, and have a phone that runs CM9 (ICS) and will be getting CM10 (JB) when the rest of the officially CM supported phones do.

I upgraded my GF's ET4G to the SGS3 right away, but you couldn't pry my original Epic out of my hands at this point

Also, I would NOT get the HTC, period, end of story.

And there is always something better around the corner.. ALWAYS... ROFL!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] blacknight1114:
It depends on the service you have where you are,but im sure you can do better then sprint.never been impressed with them. Check Tmobile.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] stinkynoon:
I don't have many options carrier-wise in my part of the country, so that makes the contract a bit more worth it. AT&T is the only carrier with reasonable signal in my area, so the freedom an off-contract phone would grant me would not be worth the price. I'd rather get the subsidized price!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] cgardnervt:
I'd say go for it! But if I was you I would look into another carrier. Sprint 3G is god awful! I switched to ATT and I love their service out where I live. Fast and much better speeds. One thing to consider if you like to root and flash the Verizon version has a locked bootloader.
[HTC ChaCha] CheesyPeteza:
I am struggling to get Stock ROM and A2SD working.

I fully wiped the phone and installed the latest RUU and all the updates.

I then installed CWM 5028, superuser and then Dark Tremors A2SD.

I then partitioned the SD Card using CWM, but everytime when I load up the phone it doesn't recognise sd-ext.

I tried a2sd check but it says sd-ext isn't mounted so I can't do a2sd reinstall.

I have partitioned the card so many times in CWM, trying with no swap, with swap, 512Mb sd-ext, 1024Mb sd-ext, formating sd-ext after partitioning, tried a different sd card...

Nothing seems to work...

I even tried putting the SD card in my PC and using GParted to change the sd-ext partition to ext2 from CWM ext4, but that didn't help...

I've had this working before so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Does it need a specific version of hboot?

CHACHA PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-1.13.0000

MICROP-0557

RADIO-7.51.35.19

Feb 7 2012,18:20:56
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Hmm, I'm using Link2SD with an ext4 partition on CM9. Haven't tried DarkTremor on this one, but afaik I used it on SuperOSR, with the same partition.

It might be something with the stock kernel, but I'm not sure. There was a thread around here regarding Dark Tremor's; you should check that one as well.
[HTC ChaCha] CheesyPeteza:
Yeah I did think it might be the kernel from what I've been reading. But I first did this setup before there was any custom ROMs available when the phone first came out after s-off with xtc clip, so that worked with the stock rom then.

What I remember from before is when you open up CWM and go to mounts and storage, if it is working correctly then it should be mounted in there without you having to manually asking it to mount it.

Mine is never mounted in there, but mounting it manually seems to work...

I can read the partition in windows using ext explorer

I did read some install notes that says you should mount sd-ext in CWM before installing A2SD in CWM. I might try that and see if it makes a difference, but I'm pretty sure the install script does all that...

Maybe I should try Link2SD? I did look for A2SD+ but I couldn't find a download link for that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Fly2Deaf:
My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JPOKeefe:
So what exactly happened?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kr3w1337:
Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Fly2Deaf:
I handed my phone to my mother to show her a picture and when she went to hand it to my aunt, my aunt dropped it. I didnt think nothing of it when I locked the screen but when I went to unlock it, my phone restarted and went to a straight black screen and started to vibrate over and over again. I tried to pull the battery and then re-insert it and boot into recovery but when recovery showed up and I went to restore to a previous ROM the phone rebooted itself and started vibrating again. Now I'm at the computer trying to place it into Download Mode. The screen pops up that says to either push Vol + for Download or Vol- for restart. When I press Vol+, the phone restarts and goes straight to a black screen again.

And I'm not a noob, I know what I'm doing my phone just started acting up

And I'm Running the AOKP ROM with Eugene's ICS Kernel with the Tmo_SGH-T989_LC8_Radio
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
What previous from were you trying to restore?? When you restore a nand back up you have to make sure that the rom you're restoring is the rom that's already installed. In other words if you wanted to restore a back up you would have needed to flash the correct rom before hand. Though I'm confused because if you did try and restore a previous rom say a cm9 back up and you have aokp currently installed it shouldn't work. Cwm will tell you there's a mismatch and it aborts the installation. My guess is this drop did some damage. Your phone isn't making it past post per say of your using pc terms. Can you try and boot back into cwm? You said download mode doesn't work. But does cwm?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RushAOZ:
He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Fly2Deaf:
I couldn't even get into cwm at all. But now i was able to get into Download Mode to flash back to Stock ICS using Oden and now Oden won't flash The ICS ROM back to my phone for some reason. Oden does recognize my phone but it won't flash anything
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] richeazy:
I would buy a USB jig they're cheap on eBay it'll force into download mode so u can restore in odin
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Fly2Deaf:
I don't know what I did but thankfully I got it to boot into CWM and I'm restoring my ROM
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] skyfolly:
maybe hardware problems if you dropped it, wasn't bricked, we usually say bricking a phone from bad flash, don't we? lol, i am not sure. try taking off sim card, micro sd card and battery then carefully put them back on next time if you have problems from drops etc........
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] playya:
Got to admit the whole "Brick" wording gets thrown around way too much for my liking and lets be honest if you are not a noob then you know all the steps to take in my opinion to try and restore your phone. If those steps dont work and you have researched the web then let Insurance kick in if you have it.

Not trying to flame or be an ass but just saying any non noob should know the steps to try and bring our phone back from the dead... I dont think starting a "Brick" thread should be on that list... Coming from the epic touch where the ICS kernel was bricking everyone its just makes me cringe when I see that word.... My bad man if you don't care for my opinion

IJS
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Suriyan72:
Have the exact same problem, can't get it into recovery or download mode.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kr3w1337:
He got as far as ROM so I knew for a fact that he could get to download and/or recovery. Just like he in fact did.

Idiot. Learn more about the phone you hold.

Sent from my SGH-I727
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Android_Monsters:
Play nice. It's fun to read about people's phone situations.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rymanh:
Here is my 2 cents

Yes people jump the gun and post bricked phone threads but that's probably because they are panicking.. And yes I agree that people should use the search function and read whenever possible.. And yes people should be reminded to do so..

But if you have the time to criticize someone then why don't you try to help them too..

If you have nothing helpful to add then don't post anything

I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmakk2055:
I had this same problem,when I tried to go in to recovery and do a restore it would reboot its self even while flashing a Rom.what I did was...go in to recovery and quickly clear cache before it reboot then go back and clear dalvik then go back and try to flash the same Rom you had installed. It did work for mange when I was trying to restore.

Hope this helps
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Vzqsmooth56:
Honestly, your the type of person everyone hates on xda.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PJcastaldo:
so you tried..

1. remove battery.

2. plug in phone to usb on computer with battery STILL OUT

3. while plugged in hold down volume up and down.

4. Still plugged in and still holding the volume up and down, insert your battery.

5. boom choose continue and find download mode.

If this doesn't get you to DL mode then either something broke hardware wise when you dropped it, OR your not being honest with what you did to cause the problem..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
My samsung captivate had never given me any problems(in the very short but good few months I've had it) until I tried to downgrade from Gingerbread(2.3.5) to Froyo about 4 days back.

While using Odin 1 click (and the phone was rooted) to accomplish what I just said, the process seemingly carried out perfectly, the "passed" message appeared in Odin and it looked like it was a success, but instead of rebooting as usual after flashing, my Cappy just went completely blank, and has stayed like that ever since. :crying:

I have tried every button combo there is, and since Jigs are for soft bricks, I guess there's no use.

The only remedy that I haven't gone for yet, is Jtag.

Can someone, anyone, PLEASE help me here!? :(

Hoping someone gets it working here..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Yep. If zero signs of life...even when wall charging, then sounds like hard brick.

Which Odin did u use to downgrade ??

Just curious...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
Well I've used Odin 3 v 1.8.5 and even Odin3 v1.7 many, many times and it's all run perfectly, but this one was Odin 3 One Click v 1.00

I've never bricked a phone ever, and yeah this one's a badass hard brick for sure.

ANY help would be really appreciated, all!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
Can you provide a link to the thread you dl'd from?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989

As you can see, it's from here. That's the Odin I used, but I don't think there was anything wrong with the file(at least I hope not)

It completed the process, gave the "passed" message, and then the phone went blank, like immediately.

Any thoughts on how that may have happened? 'Cause I thought it may have been bricked due to Odin crashing, but it did go through till the end, seemingly successful. :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=841512

^ ^ This jig, is it for a hard bricked captivate or a soft bricked one? 'Coz although I'm definitely not confident with tearing up a micro USB cable, I'm going to give it a shot tomorrow. Heading to Radioshack first thing in the morning. Last shot God dammit :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
^

Jig won't do anything for a "Hard" Brick...only J-tag and/or Unbrickable Mod.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Something had to go wrong when the jf6 bootloaders were flashed, obviously. If u did not close that Odin yet (unlikely, i know) u could scroll through the log and see what it says about the boot.bin and sbl.bin.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
Well Odin was closed, as expected. So that's not an option obviously.

Is Jtag doable by users, like could I get instructions on how to go about it? Or would I have to send it in?

And any other ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Regardless, i recommend mobiletechvideos.com for the fix.

Respected and reliable !!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kflan22:
How long have you had the phone?? Only three months?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
Here are some threads from the dev forum...

Developing methods to recover bricks without JTAG

The Captivate Development Platform mod AKA UnBrickable Mod

[HOW-TO]UnBrick the UnBrickable Captivate

....or like I said before, check out mobiletechvideos.com
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kflan22:
Dude if nothing works and you have had the phone for less than 1 year call at&t tell him you had your phone plugged into your computer over night charging, you woke up and the phone won't turn on now. And yiur house lost power and regained and there must have been a power surge around your area. You don't know what happened but it won't respond to anything....also do you know if your tripped the flash counter at all? Or did you reset it? P.m. me if any help needed I just went through this with my note....if all else fails p.m. me I have another fix but it isn't free but its cheaper than buying a new phone outright...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4-2ndtwin:
No flash counter with the Captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
Well I thought of that too, but then there's a problem. I actually bought this phone from a friend, a couple months ago, since I wasn't sure how good of a model this was and I didn't want to go get myself a new Cappy just to be let down and want another one, you know?

Still, spent 160$ on it.

Anyway, he doesn't have the receipt, there's no way I can get att to replace it like you suggested.

And just a side note, the phone was in mint condition, never even been rooted before it got to me, lol!

Btw nope, no flash counter.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kflan22:
Huh? Att will not ask for a receipt when doing a warranty exchange...I've never had an issue with people not having receipts for a manufacturer defect....you will be fine as long as the phone was purchase less than a year ago

This Public Service Announcement brought to you by a pimped out At&t gNote rocking *The Collectives* AOCP CP1...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
I thought they'd need it as proof, but thanks!

I'll head over to ATT in a couple hours and see what they say.

I'll let you know.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmtheiss:
FYI - the return may have a hiccup in it. Since you bought it from a friend and not from AT&T (or an authorized reseller), they don't have any proof of how long you've had it. There's no way for them to know whether you got it yesterday or 2 years ago, so they may put up a fight about honoring the warranty.

This is just speculation, but I just wanted to throw it out there that it may not go as smoothly as we would all like it to go for you.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anup7:
Thanks for the heads up though!

Any suggestions on how I should go about it then? Should I even tell ATT that I got it from a friend? Instead I could say I got it from ATT but lost the receipt...maybe a loophole somewhere.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
If the phone had been activated for less than a year and its not a refurbished unit, they should replace it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjohnston1224:
Hard brick

I recently hard bricked my captivate.I tried everything to get it to do something but nothing.lost cause,I thought three months later i put my jig in it and it was in download mode,wow.I then found odin one click with factory mod and one click it was back in working shape.I got my info from XDA.This is an awesome sight for phone help.I was also helped today when i upgraded my infuse 4g to gingerbread.Soft brick and again odin one click with infuse 4g rom back up and running again.Sorry this is so long but i am excited to have my expensive phones working again.thank you for your time.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Which one click did u use?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x0ne215:
Wouldn't the UnBrickable Mod work in these cases? If it does it's simple enough for anyone with any electrical skills at all to do...just solder a wire onto the board basically. No idea if it would work after a hardbrick, but seems like it would from what I've read.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BWolf56:
This thread is a few months old, I think they moved on or found a fix by now :p
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x0ne215:
Didn't notice, my bad. Saw the reply from today :P.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
OK we got enough testers you guys, thank you!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] NJGSII:
In for potential big news.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
We have a Major step forward, this could be it!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
Brick potential?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
I have a replacement coming tomorrow so I can test with this one if you like?

Sent chat invites to the emails listed above.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jklitten:
Out of curiosity, what is the development that needs to be tested? I've been following the S-Off thread, but it mostly goes over my head.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
OK guys we have enough testers. Thank you guys! . Odds are this 50% soff 25% no soff 25%brick
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ptesmoke:
Keep us updated guy! This is some Sunday night entertainment!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nugzo:
Wow those are some wonderful numbers there :fingers-crossed: 50% chance for soff is pretty encouraging. :highfive: unless your in the bottom 25 % lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] venelar:
I couldnt wait for you to find this thread :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] gunnyman:
It's been an hour. I wonder what happened
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ptesmoke:
I'm f5'ing constantly lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] jags_the1:
what are advantage of s-off?

we can remove that dirty htc development bootlogo and get it sim unlocked? what elc?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Nabeel Kiani:
Dam this will be keeping me up all night.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] nugzo:
Who what where? ;) I wasn't being mean, you can tell by the smileys :angel: that's wonderful news..:D really really high chance that we'll have s off By this time tomorrow :p

---------- Post added at 12:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:03 AM ----------

I know right ... I thought I cracked my iPad refreshing it, but it was just a hair lol :silly:

---------- Post added at 12:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:08 AM ----------

GrEat job rpomponio :good: don't keep us waiting all night please. Your tha man!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ptesmoke:
Ohh the suspense!!! :D:D
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
It's done for the night. Gonna pick it back up in the am
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] specter491:
But what's the status?!?! Did it work??
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
Haven't tried it yet. Only got part way through. Was told we would pick it back up in the morning.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] specter491:
Aahh ok
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] stoopid2001:
Stay tuned for scenes from next weeks S-off adventures coming up next.

Thanks for all who are working on this!:laugh:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Nabeel Kiani:
Dam this is more suspenseful than the soap operas my girl friend watches.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] msfguard:
Best of luck to you all testing this today, im sure like everyone else i hope for high % of success!

And an extra thanks for just taking the risk if things dont turn out good

Regardless thanks for all the hard work for yourselves and the community we have here for the HOX
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mcmb03:
can't wait to hear how this goes!!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Chrysis:
Looking forward to hearing the results! And much thanks to all the testers for doing this.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] specter491:
Any new developments on this s off method?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
Ok guys, Sorry i have not been here but i have been working on this for the LAST 2 days strait with a couple other of our Dedicated XDA members. We are not done yet, odviousley, All i can say NO DEAD ENDS YET!!! We just keep getting a little further and a little further... so keep you fingers crossed :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] phishie:
Woo, great to hear!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] powerwagon:
Considering you hounded the hell out of other folks in other threads asking for updates, your updating skills suck :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Root-Maniac:
Wow, great point^^^^ sorry guys!! we are still trying to get there, our ideas have not failed yet... sorry i thought it was gonna be a quick test but its proving to be a VERY long process..
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] powerwagon:
Dead thread
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ch33f:
In cause of One Day? /-)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] erwaso:
Nice!

AT&T OneX twrp2.2 CleanROM4.1SE
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] 18th.abn:
YES, I HAVE S OFF!!!

Ooop, I thot this was the EVO forums. Sorry guys:p

vvv

My EVO Ways

^^^^^^^
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ChongoDroid:
I owe you one punch in stomach *heavy Russian accent*

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] bigjohn6582:
What a jack off!!!:p
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Skizzy034:
I hope you're kidding. He's been doing a lot for us these past few days behind the scenes.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ECEXCURSION:
I think he was totally serious, the :p smiley he added confirms it.