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[Galaxy S III General] JonasDroid:
Don't worry everyone has had their ups and downs and for me that's a part of the beauty of modding (rooting/unlocking/...)

I still remember the bootloader unlocking of my HTC legend.

You needed burn an iso CD and set your BIOS of your PC to boot from CD then run that cd and connect your phone.

Before the process begun it stated (about 10times) that you should NOT disconnect your phone in any case. The fact they mentioned it so much made me kida worried.

But I took a deep breath and continued. You had to follow some steps answer some y/n questions and then you needed to boot your phone in fastboot

And time it so that you hit enter on your PC about 2sec after it booted into fastboot...

which I did..... but the script was still stuck on waiting... And the warning message was still there visible in the top of the script.

I started hitting enter again and again but that obviously didn't help.

After 30 min I realized there was nothing else I could do then unplugging the USB and pulling the battery. At that point I was convinced I just bricked my €450 phone.

You can't imagine how happy I was when I found out it still booted. So I rebooted my PC did some more research and tried again. And finaly after 2days and 10 attempts I got my unlocked bootloader. That victory feeling was o so great!

I must say things are getting easier for the end user and because of that it's partly losing it's charm. But it's nice too read your stories and see that some of you still experience that victory feeling!
[Galaxy S III General] joshua3_ph:
that heart stopping moment is the best part of this crazy debranding flashing rooting customizing "thing" we so love to do and my experience wouldn't be complete without it. been at it since windows phones came out and i really think i wouldn't stop hahaha!

btw bricked a couple but jtag is always there to save us ass
[Galaxy S III General] spaco22:
a good poem.

OP that was a good poem

you should commission a new book, 50 shades of rooting

nice read
[Galaxy S III General] sak500:
I touch wood never hard bricked my phones. Toyed around with N900, installed android on maemo got in bit of a mess but thanks to maemo community got out of it.

Jailbroke both my iphone 4 and wife's 4S. Flashed few fws on Optimus 3D. Been installing custom FW on S3 since I got it in late May, thanks to indie who helped make the first custom rom for S3 and even not having S3 himself as world wide launch happened in June.

Anyway my worst moment came when i plugged my external 500 WD drive to S3 via OTG cable and drive was detected for little time but then disappeared. I plugged it in the pc to check it and it showed unrecognized usb device. I still thought it wasn't big deal and tried it on my NB and still same. After it didn't show up in any of my media players (a have a few) i got panicky. It had 2 years worth of data/movies/music/backups and was full to the brim.

I searched and searched on the net and the only solution some said was that the port might have got damaged and needs to be changed. Then found on youtube how to take it out of its casing and thought if i could just hook it to my pc with sata cable it will hopefully work.

I took it out and to my shock WD had soldiered some weird connector on it and it could only connect through it and the standard sata port wasn't there.

I had all but given hope and posted it on one website about this issue and found one nice old (self proclaimed) gentleman posted that i should try to put it in freezer overnight as i have nothing to lose. I thought what a joke but did put it in the freezer wrapped in thick plastic bag.

Next day i took it out and thought just might give it a try and plugged the drive in the pc and to my amazement and relief it came up with message of options of opening the device. WOW i must admit after 20+ years in IT, handling components biz, trading /selling of components, building PCs for others and myself I never heard about this tip. I can't thank that man enough and i did recover another drive by doing the same. Both are after 1+ months working fine
[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
The heart-stopper is not the best thing - getting past it and fixing things is the best part. It may be that we wouldn';t enjoy the fixing as much without the previous heart-stopper but that 'oh, f**k' moment is still nothing to wish for... :D

@spaco22 - in 19876 I bought an XT PC so I could write my SciFi Novel. The pc took over my life and to this date I haven't done much more nthan occasional spurts of creativity in the writing field - did do some poetry though. :lol:

@Sak500 - the freezer trick has rescued a number of drives over my years. Including ones making the dreaded 'tick...tick...' noise. You were lucky - as a drive dies you get about 15 minutes to get the data off before it goes to god. And the freezer trick doesn't usually work twice... AND you need to put it in a sealed plastic bag... unlike a client of mine who sat it in their chest freezer and complained to me it didn't help and when I got there, there was still a small puddle of melt under the drive. :silly:

Mind you the best was a Manager who brought me his almost new laptop and told me it was warranty because it 'just stopped working' and when I took it out of the bag, and checked for physical case stress damage, found a car tyre track across the back of the case. Like Lenovo would warranty for running over the thing in a Territory... :lol:

In spite of my intro to all this, I am looking forward to the journey. Y'all could help by giving me reasons for my missus letting me flash her beloved GNote from United Emirates... *innocent look*
[Galaxy S III General] Erahgon:
I've got a super pro tip: Backup the EFS partition!!!

Almost every other issue is solvable with a bit of digging on this forum. An EFS partition format would need the assistance of Samsung Service Centre personnel, and a good explanation as to how it came to be.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18524176 works for me. This is the first thing I did after rooting using CF-ROOT. Also, CF-ROOT is the safest "first thing" as it only flashes a new recovery image and no kernel nor any ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] ghostofcain:
Guides can only be made so noob friendly, so I'm afraid some acronyms and finger crossing are inevitable. My advice would be to read, read and read some more before attempting any actions that may brick your phone. Remember nandroid is your friend and as long as you read the threads and follow the instructions help will always be there.
[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
Great tip and one I'd like to follow up on but the server hosting it seems not to be available.(see screenshot below) I'll check back and maybe look on google-play as well. Thanks.

@ghostofcain - been doing that. Check the screen shot of my Chrome window :lol: But there comes a time when one must try some of the things one has been reading about and I'm enough of a sysadmin that I follow system instructions very precisely - had to rebuild a server once, unpaid, over the weekend, because I skipped a line in an upgrade process.

So when strange things happen, and you're trying to think without that reassuring 'thud-THUD' pulse that you don't miss until it isn't there, :D it isn't all that reassuring to know you've done all the right things, there's just a mad moment of internal panic when you second guess and try to blame and desperately, after long training in PC's, try NOT to touch ANYTHING until you understand what just happened. :lol:

Another question - can someone point me to the download area? It has been mentioned in a few threads and I have a PM telling me that is where ROM's etc can be found, but I can't seem to find a link to that page or server. Feel free to tell me I'm being dumb...

And weirdly, I found the thanks button in posts and I swear I looked there before and it wasn't there. Maybe you can't thank until you've posted or something?

I've often told my customers, 'if computers/windows behaved as they are meant to I wouldn't have had a job for the past 25 years...' :D

Hm... image doesn't show in preview... it's attached as well.

Trying HTML...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14652749@N03/7890771458/" title="My Chrome Desk by journyman16, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8442/7890771458_f79f6a6635_z.jpg" width="640" height="357" alt="My Chrome Desk"></a>

Nope, looks like attach is it... :(
[Galaxy S III General] YoungAceAtlanta:
Once you learn all the Voodoo tricks to fixing half of your problems with Roms and Kernels.. or soft bricked devices, you'll be smooth flashing..till then you must go thru a few bricks, a few data wipes, a few crashes, and a few replacements
[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
LOL... I can live with most of that - bricking and replacements I am trying to avoid. The missus will not look kindly on having to buy a new phone...:fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] poplectic:
I'm a noob, I have still managed to root and install paranoid android ROM without disaster by finding guides with best feedback and following them EXACTLY. Recently came to S3 from iPhone. Found I love Android but hate Touchwiz!
[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
*grins* Well I am getting there. Pretty sure the error I had wasn't from not following instructions, but just one of those things. I'm enjoying it so far, but some of the Guides require a LOT of reading. When the thread is 100+ pages you kinda have to read it all in case the steps given at the beginning have been modified due to feedback - there is no guarantee the OP will have come back to the first post and changed the procedure.

I've seen a few negative comments about Touchwiz; I'm not really competent in Apple enough to make comparison but I certainly have taken to Touchwiz more than the interface on my Moto phone. It seems quite customisable and quick; and I read a comparison over on The Verge site when I was looking into what phone I wanted that seemed to make it clear it hasn't harmed the ICS options.

It would be nice if there was a standard description for ROM's so we could see what each developer considered the strong points of his/her offering. I'd like JB, good power usage, best connection speed in phone and wifi, the ability to scale down GHz in standby or when just texting, calling etc - my Moto did those things just fine on about 1/10 the grunt of the S3, so it seems overkill to have such power running when I don't need it - and a decent handwriting recognition engine so I could use a stylus.

I realise some of these are apps, but it would be great to have such things as part of the OS or at least have hooks into the code to enable OCR etc.

(any suggestions as to a ROM that would give these or even some of them would be greatly appreciated :D)

I've downloaded Dragons_JellyBean_V1.1, IOIDROID_V4_SuperSmooth, and I9300XXBLH4_Jelly_Bean_4.1.1_Clean_Stock_Rom_Nandroid_Backup to try out. Of those, Dragon's is the largest ROM so I'm guessing it is the most fully featured - it is possible s/he didn't clean out the installation before making the image, but I hope not. The Clean Stock ROM will probably be my first attempt, then the Dragon one then the Supersmooth.

The idea is to try the clean version of JB, then try the full features, then the one the author says is 'buttery smooth' to use. Gives me a spread of experience to try out.

I'm expecting heart-pauses as this goes on; as implied or stated above, it wouldn't be the fun it is without the risks. I'm reading as much as I can - I've got Chrome dedicated to Android and rarely have less than 12 tabs open - and trying to get questions addressed either in my reading or by asking.

Once I am reasonably confident in what I am doing, I tackle the wife's GNote - has Emirates firmware etc. and update it to at least latest stock. I haven't looked yet to see if there is JB ROM's for the GNote...
[Galaxy S III General] poplectic:
You sound like you're getting well along in the learning process. Although I've rooted and flashed a ROM successfully I'm still researching and trying to get my head round exactly what I've done. Trying to research kernels at the moment.
[Galaxy S III General] Jay Ssj:
i am still scared of rooting my fone. I really hate this touchwiz nature ux and i want to install cm9 or 10 for stock xperience. I hav never bought such an expensive phone, the earlier ones i had were 1/4th of this price. I am scared that if i brick this device i will be yelled at and i probably not get a fone for next few years cuz m a student and i dont earn.

But such topics give strength and a feeling of hope. Thanks for sharing your experience man.
[Galaxy S III General] salokod:
I'm addicted to the rooting world since finding this site.
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
+1
[Galaxy S III General] Journyman16:
I feel pretty much the same. About trying to understand what I have done I mean. :D I'm also at the kernel stage and wondering what I need to make the phone an extra hand in my new life. (recently retired) So far I'm enjoying the experience and the possibility of bricking means I'm extra cautious to make sure I do things right - there's a wealth of knowledge on here even if some of it is hidden in jargon and acronyms.

A part of the issue is that there are many more than one way to do things so I can read two threads that sound very different and only realise later they are talking about very similar results.

@Jay Ssj - I know the feeling mate. But start small; use the guides and make sure you do evrery step as given in the guide. And if you don't quite understand something or why you are being asked to do it, look further on the site or if you can't find you question using search, start a thread (or find a similar topic) and ask. The expert users here seem very willing to share what they know and we all have to start in ignorance and work our way out of it...;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] ImYoungxD:
Topic.

1: Volume rocker did not work properly.

2: Many scratches on the backplate.

3: loose screen causing clicking noise.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Jotokun:
Twice.

#1 - Wifi died after a week.

#2 - Screen was completely detached on one side out of the box.

Almost returned my third since it looked like the spring was missing from my SD card slot (that is, the card went in with no resistance and wouldn't push in to pop out)... but on a whim I decided to try it again right before I finished boxing it back up and it started working.

Its a great tablet, but Asus really needs to improve their quality control.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thats OK:
ZROW

Returned mine no times...

Thought about it-didn't do it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Keion:
0 cakes out of infinity

did not return my tablet, was flawless unit
[Asus Transformer TF700] opentoe:
Did the Infinity even come with plastic covers for the keyboard dock connections and the charging port like the TF201 model? The Infinity I saw, brand new right out of the box there were no plastic protective covers at all.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Jotokun:
All three of mine had the cover on the dock connector itself, but not the two slots where it connected to the dock.

Edit: Sigh... Now I"m considering returning mine for the third time. When I got it, I noticed the screen could be pushed in a little along the bottom, like it wasnt completely attached but I figured it'd be ok since it was just one spot. Now its doing it along the top. My local best buy has them in-store now so I could exchange it no problems, but I've been holding off during my return period before unlocking and I dont want to push that back again...
[Asus Transformer TF700] ImYoungxD:
I heard you can get banned for 90 days from Best Buy if you return too much... They scan your driver's license to keep a log of your returns. Not sure if it applies to defective tablets but they will probably assume that you're doing the damage one day. Anyways, time to exchange it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] -lukin-:
Zero. Slight clicking sound. GPS is a bit slow. Nothing else.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ImYoungxD:
4: Loose screen, clicking noise

5: Loose screen, clicking noise

6: Loose screen, clicking noise

7: 5 pieces of dust under screen.

This is outrageous.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hollywould:
Vibrating Motor didn't work at all.

This one is perfect. Everything works great. No creeking of the screen, no light bleed no problems what so ever. For now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MrTonyToca:
4 times....... 1- had dust under screen, 2- dead pixels, 3-dust under screen 4-dead pixels again, and the one I currently have seems like a keeper, I am used to it already as I had to do the same for the Prime and tf300 at least twice, but once I got a good one it held up good, Im very satisfied with the one I currently have. the infinity is clearly a beast! :cowboy:
[Asus Transformer TF700] ImYoungxD:
8: dusts under screen

Finally got a good one on my ninth... everything is good except for the minor lightbleed but IDC I have found THE ONE!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Keion:
I highly doubt you can go through 9 units in 2 days. Are you near a real store?

le rustle face
[Asus Transformer TF700] ImYoungxD:
I live between two BB stores that are under 3 miles away.

I work in the city where two BB stores are less than 1 mile away so I can walk.

I also open the box in the store after exchanging and check for problems. If I do, I exchange it again. Started this after my fourth exchange cause I was getting annoyed driving back and forth.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jehu111:
wow. I feel lucky. I got mine first week available in North America and have NO issues. no dust, no light bleed. Been working great. No complaints, except with Chome being a big laggy.
[Asus Transformer TF700] darkkterror:
Zero.
[Asus Transformer TF700] SndChsr:
Original TF101 - 7 TIMES. Yup..dead pixels, blemishes on screen, dead WIFI, crappy QA until I got a good one.

TF201 - Twice. Dead pixels, dead GPS. End of romance.

TF700 - Returned once. Original one had cosmetic imperfections (large dark stain/spot on the side), loose screen and clicking on left side of screen. Picked up another one, PERFECTION. No dead pixels, no clicking, no cosmetic damage.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rriopel432:
Zero. No problems in 3 weeks.
[Asus Transformer TF700] james6491:
wow

Really This is shocking to hear. I bought mine online from america, because I couldnt buy the cheaper speced version here. But mine is perfect thank god. I do actually have a very slight clicky sound in one of the corners. But I'll live with that. I don't really know what I could do if this craps out on me.

Asus really need to work on their QC...
[Asus Transformer TF700] junrider:
No returns on my infinity yet, I have had mine for almost 30 days (have 60days for BB returns). Have a 2yr ADH from square trade just incase. Looks like this infinity is a keeper.

My primes on the other hand was just a QC problems after QC problems... very dissapointed with the prime.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Jotokun:
So I just replaced mine for a third time, and it has clicking in the exact same spot and the spring in the SD card slot is messed up so I cant remove cards.

I've defended this tablet a lot, and wanted to really, really like it. And for the week that my first one ran fine, I did. But this is just too much hassle. I'm returning mine, and I'm not getting another TF700. I'll probably wait for either that 2560x1600 samsung tablet that's on the horizon or the rumored Nexus 10, but I"m completely done with Asus.
[Asus Transformer TF700] monkey10120:
Going on to my 4th one all because of light bleed
[Asus Transformer TF700] PolishPoet:
0 as compared to the Prime 4

did not return my tablet, is almost a flawless unit, tiny amount of light bleed. not enough even if I were picky.

:o
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Depending on how bad your light bleed in, you may not want to bother - every infinity I've seen has some level of light bleed, usually only visible during boot-up though...

Do you actually notice the light bleed during normal use or just at bootup when the brightness is at full?
[Asus Transformer TF700] MrFurious:
On my fourth one and last if its bad I'm getting my money back

First one was clearly repackaged and used

Second had bad light bleed and creeking screen

Third screen perfect but volume rocker bad and wifi poor

Fourth fingers crossed!

Im not picky all these were significant problems, Love Asus, love my tf300 but dang!

Love amazon they make exchanges painless
[Asus Transformer TF700] ExjeetzZ:
Emailed ASUS about my problem

I'm thinking about returning and get a working TF700T. It was working perfectly until today, Something went wrong with the speakers.. I was hearing sound cracking until 2 hours ago, Now the volume decreased dramatically from 100% (Normal) to 25% while being on FULL Volume. I tried factory resetting my tablet 2-3 times but nothing seem to work, So hopefully ASUS knows what's going on with my device and get it fixed without shipping it to them but I doubt that will happen. :mad: :rolleyes:
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Did any of the exchanges actually have a working volume rocker? I replaced mine once from Amazon and the rocker was still crap - so I didn't think it was fixable (or it was supposed to be crap??). Just wondering if someone actually has a good one. If so, I've now missed my return window from Amazon so I would have to work with Asus. Do they do advance replacements?
[Asus Transformer TF700] ImYoungxD:
As long as it clicks and not seriously mushy, it's fine. There is no perfect rocker for the infinity
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
My second infinity definitely has much more of a click than my first. But, they both did work (for how long they'll continue to work, I can't say though!). I just hope they are still working ok 6 or 12 months from now - that's my concern (same with the power button, but I try to use a reboot app when possible in order to avoid wearing out the power button). FOr that matter, I really don't use the actual volume buttons much either...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MrFurious:
The volume rocker on 2nd was also perfect no squish, firm click up and down even the power button was very good, to bad they couldn't take the 3 I've had and make 1 good one.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Marshall2017:
Does anyone get CMAS messages? That's a question I want to know because whenever we get severe weather in ohio I never get any messages or anything through SMS? Can anyone confirm CMAS works through T-Mobile?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Its worked for me a few times.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lordelfkin:
Ok guys, i need some help... my profile/prl update has not worked for a long time, i get error code 4 (contact customer service). i assumed this was simply an issue with the ROM i was using however i flashed everything back to stock with odin. I am running stock everything with the latest FG01 modems. I still could not update my profile or prl.

So i thought maybe something was messed up in my programing so i ##RTN ed the device... now it wont activated at all... i get the same error code when trying to activated. So now i have no data/voice or text.

Anyone have any ideas on what i am missing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lordelfkin:
please close... was a provisioning issue with Sprint. I ESN swapped to a different device then right back and i am GTG... thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jess813:
I had this issue ...

Fix: when updating both Prl and profile make sure you're on Wi-Fi. Period. If you are not it won't update.

So if you want simply flash the ROM u like, sign in to Google and let it update .the manually update both prl and profile. Again on WiFi.
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
Thank you for your thought out post. I did read the whole thing and agree that in an optimal world, posts would be much more detailed. But, to give that much detail would be a full time job and then some. So many of us give pointers to get people looking in the right direction.

When I rooted my phone as a noob, I had about 20 tabs open researching different sites and consolidating information. I learned a lot that way and am glad someone didn't spoon feed me. But to each his own I guess.

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