Recent content by OpenTrackRacer

It's been a really long time so I don't remember 100% but... I used ODIN to re-install the latest firmware. I did not do a total reflash. It's also worth mentioning that the phone was never the same after this and I ended up replacing it a few months later.

Well son of a *****. I downloaded ODIN and tried it myself on a different computer. ODIN saw the phone and I was able to install the current firmware. Phone is back up and running and ALL my data is intact. Verizon and Samsung suck. Thank you nahoku!

Okay, so I have the phone being seen by the computer in download mode. However, SmartSwitch doesn't see it and putting in the model number and serial number doesn't work. The phone is showing that it's downloading but obviously nothing is happening (it even shows that if it's not connected to...

Well, in download mode it's not seen by a computer and doesn't seem to work with ODIN or Kies. Any suggestions for what I might be missing?

Yeah, it looks like it's done. I hassled Verizon and the best I could come up with is $99 for a Galaxy S7 replacement. It's a really good price for a newer device so I guess I shouldn't complain too much but I would have rather had another Note 4.

Yep, no dice booting into recovery mode. Download mode does come up the phone still isn't accessible from Kies or ODIN. I actually took it over to a nearby Best Buy that has an internal Samsung store and they tried as well without any success.

Bah. No dice on the stores. They don't have any techs anymore.

Tried Verizon phone tech support. No help. It's out of warranty so I'm boned, even though they pushed the update. Still working on angles. I can try a store too and see what happens. Does anyone know what kind of tools the stores have? With the way it's acting, I'm not sure that they'll...

Got a notification for a patch upgrade from Verizon yesterday and today it installed. It looks the the install failed and now the phone is stuck in a boot loop. It tries to boot, shows the splash screen then reboots. The second boot shows the recovery mode text in the upper left corner. It...

Re: Camera keeps changing to 6MP resolution Gave that a shot and so far, so good. If anything changes I'll post. Thanks!

Camera keeps changing to 6MP resolution I've noticed something very annoying about my Verizon Note 4. The default camera app keeps changing to 6MP resolution. I set it to 16MP and a while later it's back at 6MP again. It's really starting to tick me off. This happened before the Lollipop...

Advanced Signal Status is working on my (just) rooted Verizon Galaxy S3 running 4.3. I can now switch between 4G (LTE), 3G (EVDO) and 1x (CDMA). About time! Thanks for the tip!

My phone has started doing this recently. The redraws aren't too bad but the flickering is most unwelcome. I am using SwiftKey.

I'm still having this issue (on Verizon). It happened twice yesterday, once before I forced Google Play to only update on WiFi and once after. So, unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the problem. This issue is getting very tiresome. One can only hope that Jelly Bean solves the problem.

Re: Cracked Screen - Defective, not dropped. A similar thing just happened to my wife's phone. She put the phone (which is in an Incipio case) into her purse (in it's own pocket) and when she pulled it out a few hours later there was a hairline crack in the glass. She told me she did not drop...