BRICKED! 2 Days old!! CWM Stock rom, just backed up rom.

[Pogue_Mahone#AC]

Ok, so although I have rooted a few phones, and fooled around a bit, I'm still a noob. I just got my Sprint GS3 and rooted it with odin as soon as I got it. installed CWM, titanium and adfree. That was friday. This evening I decided to make a backup of my rom, it went into cwm bootloop, I could not get it to boot out of cwm. Great. So I found this: http://androidforums.com/esteem-all-things-root/478814-how-get-out-clockworkmod-recovery-bootloop.html with a little google fu. I put it on my SD card, mounted external sd, installed zip, and hit reboot. The screen went black, and now nothing. Odin doesn't recognize it, and no button press combination will bring it to life. PLEASE HELP, if you can. My long overdue upgrade from my NS4G with a cracked screen was SO sweet until now

 

[Keith Patrick]

That file is for the LG Esteem, not the Sprint GSIII. Very bad things happen when you flash something not made for your device. From what I understand, if you can't access download mode it's pretty much all over.

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[Pogue_Mahone#AC]

doh, thats what I get for messing with late at night. Guess that's all she wrote.

 

[Keith Patrick]

So I take it you cannot boot into download mode. I'm really sorry to hear that. Perhaps someone here can still help you, though.

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[iFebby]

Here, use this service since your device is now hard bricked for using the wrong files.

http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-jtag-brick-repair/

you can't go wrong with $60 to fix your hard bricked device! You ship them your phone and they will fix it.


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[Pogue_Mahone#AC]

I took it back to Costco, they gave me a new one! Lesson learned, tragedy averted. I don't think I am going to install cwm on this one. just adfree and titatium

 

[Keith Patrick]

Awesome! Glad it worked out for you.

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[Golfdriver97]

I have almost bricked my S2 a couple times. My S3 is my daily driver, so if the S2 would be bricked it wouldn't be a big deal. I always wanted to ROM phones, but didn't till I had a spare. One thing I was glad that happened, I always had a file of the previous build to fall back on, so if something did happen, I had a way out. However, I do agree that you don't root/ROM when you are tired/incoherent. Mistakes happen easier like that.

 

[GiantJay]

This is why carriers and phone manufactures want to lock our damn phones! You didn't pay attention to what you were doing so Costco Sprint and Samsung take a loss for your stupidity. I'm so sick of seeing these threads. I flashed something not made for my phone, I just took it back to Sprint, box store, Samsung and they gave me a new phone for being an idiot. Yay everyone wins. You don't realize the repercussions of your actions. These companies don't like you taking money out of their pockets and we all pay in the end. Rant over sorry but I've seen way to many threads like this as of late.

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[rong21]

People may not be paying attention but as long as Costco, Samsung etc enable this by exchanging the phone it'll keep happening. I feel no sympathy for these places if they make a rule and then disregard it.

 

[Soundtrack to Chaos]

This is why carriers and phone manufactures want to lock our damn phones! You didn't pay attention to what you were doing so Costco Sprint and Samsung take a loss for your stupidity. I'm so sick of seeing these threads. I flashed something not made for my phone, I just took it back to Sprint, box store, Samsung and they gave me a new phone for being an idiot. Yay everyone wins. You don't realize the repercussions of your actions. These companies don't like you taking money out of their pockets and we all pay in the end. Rant over sorry but I've seen way to many threads like this as of late.

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Didn't have to flame him, but I somewhat agree

Wouldn't have all these issues if this forum was renamed D2spr instead of sprint galaxy s3 rom etc, lol

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[GiantJay]

Didn't have to flame him, but I somewhat agree

Wouldn't have all these issues if this forum was renamed D2spr instead of sprint galaxy s3 rom etc, lol

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I have seen many threads here and on xda pretty ,much saying the same nothing. I know when I first started rooting and ROMing I read everything I could about ten times before doing anything not just to make sure everything was correct but to learn about what I was actually doing. I think the person that posted back a few posts that said they don't feel bad if a company ignores their procedures is missing the point. These companies won't continue to lose money because of people messing with stuff they know nothing about. They will simply start locking our devices and or passing the cost on to us guaranteed.

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[rong21]

I have seen many threads here and on xda pretty ,much saying the same nothing. I know when I first started rooting and ROMing I read everything I could about ten times before doing anything not just to make sure everything was correct but to learn about what I was actually doing. I think the person that posted back a few posts that said they don't feel bad if a company ignores their procedures is missing the point. These companies won't continue to lose money because of people messing with stuff they know nothing about. They will simply start locking our devices and or passing the cost on to us guaranteed.

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I agree with you as far as OEM's possibly locking things down. I suppose I could have worded things better.

Until people are made to feel the pain for not paying attention they won't be more careful and pay attention to detail. The OEM's and providers make it too easy to replace phones due to operator error.

I know I must have read and reread,checked and rechecked ROM files multiple time before I rooted and started flashing ROM's. I did this out of fear of losing a couple hundred dollars screwing it up.Even after all that I know I run a risk of screwing it up. If I do I will pay the price to send it in to fix.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Fortunately for Samsung, and for those of us who want to continue to root, I suspect the number of phones returned for this reason amounts to little more than statistical noise. Samsung sold what, 40 million S3s world wide? I'd be surprised if 100,000 of those have been rooted, and if more than 10% of that number have been bricked. Does Samsung like it? No, of course not. But it's built into the cost of the phone as a warranty cost. I suspect Samsung can easily flash the right firmware and put it in the refurb queue. So we all pay a little more for our phones, but probably not very much.

And as I've said before, part of the blame for this lies squarely with Samsung. They want to single brand across all carriers for marketing reasons, so when a ROM says it's for the Galaxy S3, that's as far as some people read. If Sprint branded their version as an Evo, Verizon as a Droid, and AT&T as a Galaxy, you wouldn't see this happening. (And with the HTC One being branded the same across carriers, you'll probably see a lot more people screwing those up trying to root, too.)

Does this mean I condone the fools who don't know what they're doing, and don't care enough to learn? And then choose to make the resellers and Samsung bear the cost of their laziness or stupidity? Not at all. I'm old enough to remember the adage "You break it, you bought it." Today, that seems to have been replaced by "Not my fault!"

 

[Pogue_Mahone#AC]

This is why carriers and phone manufactures want to lock our damn phones! You didn't pay attention to what you were doing so Costco Sprint and Samsung take a loss for your stupidity. I'm so sick of seeing these threads. I flashed something not made for my phone, I just took it back to Sprint, box store, Samsung and they gave me a new phone for being an *****. Yay everyone wins. You don't realize the repercussions of your actions. These companies don't like you taking money out of their pockets and we all pay in the end. Rant over sorry but I've seen way to many threads like this as of late.

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I'm soooo sorry for you. *****. Nobody asked you. These companies take plenty of money out of my pocket, so I don't feel bad.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

So you feel no responsibility for your own actions? It's all up to Costco and Samsung to make you whole? I suppose if you drove your car into a light pole you'd expect the dealer to fix it for you for free? It's EXACTLY the same thing. You broke it, all by yourself. Why should someone else pay to make you whole?

 

[eldub1]

My these things are much harder to brick compared to mo og Evo. Did you try to root in your backyard pool with a couple of friends Jack and Coke? Im just saying.

 

[Keith Patrick]

I kinda felt bad for this guy at first. I was hoping he learned from his mistake and humbly went on his way, wiser. People getting a little angry at the way he handled his carelessness is completely expected. What was unexpected was how he reacted to it.

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[Soundtrack to Chaos]

I'm soooo sorry for you. *****. Nobody asked you. These companies take plenty of money out of my pocket, so I don't feel bad.

Why was this thread bumped? Just so u could rant to a member?

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[DWR_31]

I took it back to Costco, they gave me a new one! Lesson learned, tragedy averted. I don't think I am going to install cwm on this one. just adfree and titatium

Have you ever heard of something called a locked bootloader? Its what carriers have OEM's do to phones to prevent people like you from gaining critical access. It also inhibits people that know what they're doing from that same access.

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