Recent content by RKnack

Okay, now I can't even get into Odin mode on the phone. It sat for several days and the battery drained. Now, when I plug it into a charger, a picture of a battery briefly shows up on the screen and the red LED comes on for a short period, but then all goes dark again. Oh, and the phone vibrates...

My aunt gave me her Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-I535 a couple weeks ago. It was running Android 4.4.3 "kitkat" when I got it, but I wanted to upgrade it to Android 5.1 "lollipop". I found out that the Verizon phones have a locked bootloader, so I tried to get around it by using Safestrap. I...