Virgin S6 in boot loop :(

[Asinine17]

I bought a steal of a deal for a Galaxy S6 off of woot.com the other day. Got it today, but been really busy. Tinkered with it a bit (I did not enable wifi, did not insert any chips, basically just piddled around the settings a bit -- it was to factory settings except for me tapping the version to unlock dev mode, and setting some personal options. Nothing was updated, it was never connected to a wifi, no chips were inserted). Discovered while doing so that there are some defunct pixels and I've reported the problem with Woot. So I booted into recovery mode, selected "wipe data/factory reset". Then I chose "apply update from cache", and it rebooted... and now it repeatedly reboots if it's on. I can turn it off with the home-vol down-power option, and I can get back into the system recovery. At the bottom it now states "dm-verity verification failed...". I've googled the crap out of this, and nothing is helpful in the least bit.

I can't really check anything on the phone unless it's available in the recovery mode. I did notice it was running Lollipop. I'm currently swamped with real life stuff and that's why I'm just putting this out here. Did I do something completely boneheaded? I mean, I intend to root the one I'm keeping, but ... if it's seriously that easy to brick your phone, I think something's bad wrong.

The menu states:
Android system recovery <3e>
LMY47X.G920PVPU3BOL1

I'm hoping Woot gets back to me and I can just send it back in. But I sorta wanted it in a working mode when I did...

Any suggestions/help/info?
Thanks!

 

[B. Diddy]

Moved to the S6 forum.

 

[anon(9419666)]

The bootloop may be caused by a damage motherboard.

 

[Asinine17]

The bootloop may be caused by a damage motherboard.

It ran fine before though; wouldn't that sort of thing come up before now?

But, if that's the case, I've already got my ticket in.

 

[Asinine17]

So I've got a new issue: Woot has replied and stated that due to the nature of the purchase, I can return it for a full refund. But replacement is not an option.

I am totally understanding about that situation; so now I have a few days to decide my choice. Do I 1) return the phone ($260 for an unlocked S6 seems like a bully of a good deal) or 2) start the Odin/pilfering/rooting/stomping about on enemies' graves? (Or just rooting, involving Odin. I have tutorials already lined up.)

Any advice on this? Are S6's going to be around that price (unlocked) anytime soonish? I was actually planning on buying one with a pricetag of $400 or so come Christmas, but this deal popped up early and fit well with my saved money.

 

[lucianus_luciferus]

if it's too good to be true...

 

[B. Diddy]

I say cut your losses and return it for a full refund.

 

[Asinine17]

Sigh, okay. Thanks all.