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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
They

can

potentially brick your device, because they use different drivers, files, etc. ... and the partitions are stored in different parts of the memory, changing these partitions can confuse the device and therefore brick it.

I said "serious things" because the first thing I wrote, was a n00b joke, I saw on the forums a while back...

Believe what you wish, all I'm saying is this:

if you flash something to your device, that was intentioned for a different device, then it's your responsibility, because most devs/modders warn you, and I did here, now. Everything you do to your device voids your warranty, and potentially harms your device, what you do to your phone is your thing, all we can do is advise you not to do things, it's your responsibility..

Hope I could help!

LG familyguy59/Beatsleigher

---------- Post added at 11:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 PM ----------

You can always repair a bricked device with a JTAG, it's just the cost and the time consumption, that scares people off :)

LG familyguy59/Beatsleigher
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaynpayn:
I'd just pull the battery while flashing a bootloader. Guaranteed brick with little chances of recovery. You need to be fast though, that bootloader is really small and flashes fast :p
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
So Simonetti2011 is wrong?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simonetti2011:
You are incorrect.

Only a PIT file can change partitions.

Besides, the location of files are standardized across firmwares.

that is why I wrote (page 1 of this thread) that the ROM being flashed must inform if they contain PIT's or recoveries. Stock ROMs (and all ROMs based on Samsung stock ROMs) do not change the PIT, recovery or bootloader.

If the user is going to flash a ROM that is not stock-based AND the developer of the ROM won't tell what it does, then simply avoid that ROM.

I stand correct: as long as the PIT and bootloader are untouched, the phone can be revived with very little effort (matter of minutes).

A JTAG can certainly be used in most cases, but not only it will take a few days (to get the thing delivered), but it will also be quite expensive and demand a lot of technical knowledge. So, I usually consider a device that requires a JTAG to be revived as bricked since I'd rather send it to an authorized service center than try to do it myself and make things worse.

My (most of ours, I guess) S III has a 1 year warranty. I figure that I can mess with it pretty bad and if it gets FUBAR I'll simply send it a service center.

So far, I'm yet to brick my SII, my SIII or even a HTC Kaiser which came with Windows Mobile 6.0 and got an upgrade to Android 2.3.7! I've flashed more ROMs than I can remember, I've wiped, I've lost data, but I have never bricked a single phone.

the thing is that whatever I do I read a lot beforehand and if I think - no matter how little - a ROM can be insecure, I simply don't do it.

My experience has taught me that something others consider a "must-have", I consider a waste of time and unnecessary headache and trouble: one such example is CWM.

There are dozens of people here with USB and MHL problems and 99% of them have CWM. That is NOT a coincidence.

I loved overclocking my S II, using SiyahKernel for that, but the device driver support in it (specially for wifi) was so bad that it was a waste of time.

What most people don't get is the definition of BRICKING. Will an improper stock ROM render your phone unusable? YES. Can it be fixed in 5 minutes? YES. Is that bricking? NO.

UNUSABLE <> USELESS
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikhil18:
I am on jellybean can I directly flash any ics custom rom from cwm and then wipe and this wont brick my s3 I am asking this question because I had a galaxy note which was on ics and I flashed cm10 on it I had made a backup of the stock rom I found it to be little unstable so I restored the nand backup of stock rom this hard bricked my device
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THE.W!ZARD:
Did You Mean If I Flashed Custom ROM Made Specially For My Phone (Codec For i9300) My Phone Will Not Hard Brick?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
that means if you flash ANY custom ROM, you won't hard brick, because they don't touch the bootloader
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
CM10 is safe. It does not include any of these information that can brick your phone.

---------- Post added at 09:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 AM ----------

Yes, typically but keep in mind that if you flash rom from different phone model then it might soft brick your phone or some core services might not work.

I kinda did it to myself a couple of weeks ago. I have international i9300 and I flashed a rom for att. everything went smooth but my phone reception was not working. I was like WTF. then I checked rom correctly and I find it was for ATT. I was terrified that I might have broke my phone's reception forever. But then I again flashed CM10 for i9300 international and I am back into game again. :)

So when you flash any rom, try to double check phone model and reviews in discussion thread. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
Yeah, but a soft brick is not a problem at all. I'm sure all of us have had a couple of them
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
:P yes
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asiwaju23:
i bricked my huawei ascend d2-2010

please i need help!. i bricked my huawei ascend d2-2010.. i cant get into boot loader and my pc cannot identify the phone.. can anyone help out?:(:crying::crying::crying::crying:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beatsleigher:
Wrong forum, you nut!

Go and check out if XDA has a forum for your device. If it does, ask there. If not, ask in the Android Q&A.

And don't pull back old threads like this! It's just really annoying, especially if the thread has become useless.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
You need the Apple I Pod forum .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anupbangalore:
Today i briked my motorola defy plus

When i was flashing the original rom after the 100% completion of flashing the phone did not reboot so i unplugged the usb. Now i m not getting the bootloader screen pls help can i get my phone back....... Pls help me it was gifted by my dad...... Now i dont know wat to tell my dad pls help asap
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Can you get into download mode?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashraf sharif:
wrong forum this is gs3 q and a you need the mtorola defy forum http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=852
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anupbangalore:
what is download mode....?? Please i am new to this

I can still connect the phone to PC and RSD lite detects it and i can flash the ROM to 100% and it shows me PASS and a white colour LED glows but phone is not getting rebooted. so what can i do now...Thanks for ur reply
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anupbangalore:
Thank god, slaphead20 I GOT MY PHONE BACK

now its working fine i was just flashing my phone with DFP-125 on my stock DFP-231 so it was softbricking my lad.....now m happy for ur support slaphead....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashraf sharif:
you can try factory reset in recovery but really rsd is a motorola tool . this is a samsung forum different phones different manufacturers any advice you get here is not likely going to help you. Don't you think you would be better of asking for help in the correct forum?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anupbangalore:
ya got the solution

:good: now its working fine no problem i posted here because i found this forum first after i bricked my lad.....so no problem to have friends with different model phone:D:highfive:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wangdaning:
But it is annoying to clutter up this forum with non related issues.

Glad you got your phone working though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ricky Divjakovski:
flash wrong boot .img (will not boot)

flash a wrong kernel (potention hard brick)

flash a viral .zip file that deletes partitions ect..

phone go flat during a flash (with give the partition your modifying dead blocks, also sdcard)

overclock or overvault the phone too much(fries cpu)

a few other ways but its pretty hard to completely brick a phone, i dont know how noobs manage, im a developer and i have bricked a phone for testing purposes (Htc Sensation Xl) and after 4 hours the only way i found was to download a Hboot and edit it without decompiling it then flashing it..?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kevinb99:
Updated to super LTE milestone 1 and now wifi tether does work at all, I've tried ever possible setting including wlan 0 generic one. NOTHING WORKS AT ALL!!! It never broadcasts in any way, what do I do? Also does anyone else feel that milestone 1 is one of the buggiest builds yet?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tjmethod:
I downloaded it and am trying it- zero bloat, the wifi tether showed up as a widget and not in the app list. In the play store it said installed so i uninstalled it and rebooted and reinstalled it then it was there. I was having that problem with the broadcasting until i changed channels to like 9 or 10 - one of them worked. Now just trying to figure out how to get the damn thems on this *****...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] truth77:
Mobile Odin has just been updated to support i317 and also had some nice bug fixes. I've never used it but I'm sure its a good thing to have.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro.

Check it out for those who don't know about it. It won't increase the flash counter and it will root for you while flashing your recovery.tar. this is good if your a noob!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Err0xx:
Nice. Thanks for posting. Seems like a useful app to have for flashing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ekerbuddyeker:
Do you need to root to use mobile odon and can you do full Rom backups (or is CWM the only way)?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] truth77:
Root once then it will keep root if a leak comes out ore you need to flash stock tar it won't trip counter.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xclub_101:
It seems that clockworkmod backup / restore provides an excellent way to create a master configuration (with many programs installed and a lot of detailed settings, but nothing special or protected) which can then be restored on many phones - EXCEPT for a few problems related to Android ID!!!

In more details - it seems that the Android ID and a few other settings derived from that are also cloned and (for the moment) there is no simple way to fix things - as far as I could find all seems (???) to be confined to a database file located in:

/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

where in the sqlite3 table called 'secure' there are 3 entries of interest:

_id 51 name android_id value XXXXxxxxxxxxxxxx

_id 57 name wifi_p2p_ssid value Android_XXXX

_id 200 name wifi_p2p_device_name value Android_XXXX

I did try to "adb pull" the file, edit it on PC with SQLite Expert Personal and then "adb push" the file back and then restart the phone but it seems something is not working as expected - the Wi-Fi Direct name does not always seem to change and even more strange I can see some very weird things taking place with other settings (for instance related to lock screen and other stuff) apparently changing "by themselves" when the phone goes to sleep :crying:

Any idea or suggestion on how that can be achieved?

Does the Android ID has any "internal CRC" in the 64-bit value encoded there?

For the moment my tests have been done using a CrisKelo ROM and siyah kernel but I don't think that is essential to the story.
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EwanG:
Looks like at least initially this isn't available in the US. Recommendations for where to buy that the shipping and handling isn't as much as the device proper?
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ong.andrew:
Last I read AT&T in the US would be carrying the device. Nevertheless it should be shipping out today (12th Nov) from UK online retailers, popular ones include:

http://www.clove.co.uk/samsung-galaxy-camera

http://www.handtec.co.uk/search.php...ra 8gb&xPriceFrom=0&xPriceTo=0&xSort=&xPage=2

to name a couple.

The price relevant to you is the one excluding VAT. Good luck! I'm looking forward to seeing some sample pictures and videos before making the jump!
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robb13:
You can buy it now in at&t retail stores in USA. I bought mine already. It awesome. Sample pics and vids in the general section.
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EwanG:
Did they force you to get a data plan, or were you able to buy it by itself? Website is not at all clear on that point, and I don't trust the stores to know the policy, so figure best to go in with an example or two :)

Also, did you give any thought to a Nokia 920? It seems to me the Galaxy Camera is a camera with some phone functionality, and the 920 s a phone with some camera functionality. But not clear from images I've seen posted that either is significantly better than the other in image quaity, which is making it hard to jump one way or the other.
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robb13:
No I didn't need a data plan :D I live in Mexico, so I can't have a US data plan. The lady at the store at first didn't know they even had the camera there, because it was the day when it came out. But once she saw the camera, she knew I could buy it without a plan.

There are some people saying that they've been told at stores that you do need a plan, but as far as I know you don't. We talking to a manager or something can help.
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fatbuccha:
Hi is it unlocked version?
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Claghorn:
I found one AT&T store that wanted to force me to have a data plan, but after a new store got some in stock, I tried them, and after going into a huddle for 20 minutes or so they decided I could buy one without the data plan.

I did wonder about getting one with a data plan then doing early termination of the plan (which the AT&T web site says you can do at no charge if it is within 14 days, but fortunately I didn't have to try that :).
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robb13:
Nope it's not unlocked. I tried to put in a Mexican Chip today and it asks me for a unlock code!
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pileiba:
availability

Hey it's available unlocked on ebay :D

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...1-Jelly-Bean-Quad-Core-EK-GC100-/200847710914

amazon too (not sure if unlocked there too)

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galax...3&sr=8-4&keywords=Samsung+Galaxy+Camera+GC100
[Galaxy Camera Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EwanG:
At least the EBay one is only $30 more than AT&T. The Amazon one is almost $200 more :(

Think I'll give AT&T a try first given that's the case. I don't need unlocked since I will be using with my MiFi in WiFi only anyway.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pederpuff:
I recently rooted my s3 and am currently running liquid smooth on it. I was wondering if there was a way to get back some of the features that came with the phone, like when i text someone if i put it up to my ear it automaticly calls them or the watch the video while you do something else one. I liked that stuff that came with it..anyway to get it back?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
I may be wrong but as far as i know you cant. Those are Touchwiz features that your asking about. Liquid Smooth is not a TW ROM You would need a TW ROM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CamFlawless:
^^ Correct. Those small features are from TouchWiz. Liquid smooth is based on AOSP, which is entirely different. There may be rooted TouchWiz ROMs that provide you with a hint of both worlds.

Galaxy S3 AOKP 4.1.2 JB.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeatyCoins:
Hey, So the camera on my Note 2 either stays black or says camera failed and FC's. I already tried a hard reset, flash stock rom via odin, root and flash a new rom, I have done almost everything to fix.

I bought it off craigslist sealed brand new, sprint is saying it needs to pass 30 days in order to receive a replacement or fix since I did not buy it from them (I Have insurance)

Any one have a suggestion to fix? or what I should do? Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guirae:
i have this same exact issue....reset the phone at least 5 times...

Sprint told me the same thing. They also told me that there is an "OTA" to fix this issue because other people have it.

It's odd because the return policy is 15 days but the insurance kicks in after 30...so weird...

I currently am running a stock deodex ROM with the Pegasus kernel. the black screen happens only occasionally.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] MeatyCoins:
hmm a kernel change can fix things, will try!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] guirae:
hey man i went to Sprint today. the technician pulled off the camera module from the display phone they had in store that did not have the problem we have.

he used the NEW module on my phone. THE PROBLEM PERSISTED. we concluded there is an issue with the motherboard (most likely the processor). they ordered me a new phone even though i've only had this phone for < 30 days...

hope this helps!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sikor78:
Hi im instal Omega v32 Jelly Bean on my sgs3 today . was ok - i conect with Kies and make sync etc. after that I instal official Omega themes Kalagas Mixed Themes - - few hours later when i chec i cant connect with kies and make sync . Kies program all time looking my phone - don't show them .

I try repair from kies side - nothing .

anything .??

Regards

TDS
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgeos:
So I am flashing a custom ROM and I've wiped my /system and factory reset my note in CWM but as I scrolled down to click flash zip from SD card I accidentally clicked the sideload option beneath it, it's now waiting for sideload. Is it okay for me to turn off my phone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgeos:
Also I do not have the capabilities on this computer to push anything to my device.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaMan90:
Yeah go ahead just boot straight back to recovery
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] georgeos:
So having wiped /system and factory reset will not have affected CWM on my phone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
ote has cwm on kernel, format system will not have any effect on the cwm.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] joejoejo:
Can somebody mod the YouTube app that comes with the lg nexus 4 which is version 4.1.23a so that people who do not have or do not want a modded or rooted phone can have it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0mega007:
Hi, i noticed after installing CF-Root 6.4 that the "syscope" process become frozen in titanium backup

I got 3 questions?

1)Does CF-Auto-Root freezes the "syscope" process too?

2) If is true that CF-Auto-Root disables "syscope", do it stays disabled if i do a factory reset?

3) If CF-Auto-Root doesn't freeze the "syscope" procces, can i unfreeze it, without causing problems (even on factory reset).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0mega007:
Anyone, please
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ChaoticDruid:
Hello, all.

Im still running the original GB on my AT&T Sony Ion. In my notifications bar across the top, I have a system update that doesnt seem to want to go away, since they released ICS.

Does anyone happen to know if the accuweather widget is in the ICS update? Sitting here with the flu or something today, and was debating on upgrading, but I really like the animated accuweather, so thats why I have been putting it off.

Maybe I have missed it in the play store, or its there/easy fix. But I honestly just dont have time to search for hours, like I used to for answers, and would truly appreciate some help.

Screenshot below, its old, so the mentioned notification isnt showing yet.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Are you referring to the stock weather widget?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Almost sure it is there. At least for all the other devices, it is there.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gallardo5:
It is on ICS for Xperia S, so im prettt sure its also for ION;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KEB64:
Yes. It is the same for ICS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Here is your proof. :)

Sent from my LT28at
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mukhia:
My internal storage is full.... Is there any ways to move apps to sd card..... I tried to use couple of apps from market like 'apps to sd' and 'gl to sd'...... Non of that worked.... If any one could help, i would realy appreciate it...!!.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] as_vassili:
ExtSD2internalSD is the answer to your question mate.

Basically you're going to make your phone believe that your sd mem card is your internal and vice versa, worked like a charm for me running Jelly Bean 4.1.1 on my I9300 with a Class 10 samsung 64GB micro sd card.

Here's the link to the thread.

BTW, thanx to mattiadj for this awesome mod and hope this helped somehow & if it did please hit the thx button :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mukhia:
Thanks a lot bro..... Now i got 29 gb internal......its cool.....:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] as_vassili:
No problemo man, glad I could be of assistance ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Driice:
Hi, I'm running a rooted AT&T GS3 with KyanROM 1.5. I'm able to send MMS messages to people with no problem, but I can't receive MMS messages. I don't even receive anything on my phone telling me I have a MMS message. I'm pretty sure the message is sent though because, after my friend sent me a MMS, when I restart my phone on the bottom I receive a message saying "Currently unable to download. Please try again later" I have auto-retrieve messages enabled and I have mobile data enabled. Any help would be appreciated! :)

Edit: I tried installing GO SMS and restarting my phone, but I had the same problem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lancelane:
U need to make sure original messaging app is still on the phone and not disabled. Even if u use ha cent or another third party. I have found that to b only way to get hand cent to work with mms.

U can still disable notifications on messaging app and mark button on hand cent making it default.

Good luck.
[Android Apps and Games] asystat:
Hey guys,

I just released a new app, and I want to share it with you. I've been working a lot on it and I hope it can steal you a smile =)

It's name is Meme Directory and you can download it from here:

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xplosivelabs.blog.memedirectory

Please give me some feedback/comments/critics

And if you like it, leave 5 stars in the market to push it to the top :D

Thanks and enjoy!
[Shift General] lucacicco:
hi!

i need your help!

I've got a htc shift with win xp.... i installed xp some months ago.

I have always updated windows but now the touchscreen and buttons (change res and manager) don't work!!

can i update drivers? can anyone give me them updated? or is there any way to upgrade os to win7?
[Shift General] micrors4:
Luckily I still had the drivers on my computer, I also have the ones for Mac OS X if you want those as well just let me know

Here is the link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58112545/shift drivers.rar
[Shift General] linlance:
great i will down it. just need it
[Shift General] chpcdave:
looking for XP drivers for htc shift