Alright this is my first post here so I hope you'll bare with me. I'll give you the anecdotal account first and get any details that are needed when I get home from work, so here goes...
Friend of mine got a refurbished S3. Later we find she needs a newer firmware than the stock 4.3 to use pokemon go so I tell her I'll put cm13 on it and she'll be at 6.0 and it should run fine. In the process of trying to put cm13 on I find that the recovery error I'm getting is telling me that it's actually a sprint S3 even though the model number in the software and under the battery says sgh-t999. So I try the sprint cm13 file and it boots and seems to work fine. Weeks later we discover she hasn't been receiving calls. No notification, nothing. Everything else works, she has Internet, she can call out, she even gets voice-mail notifications if people leave them. This is no good, so I try to roll her back to stock (sgh-t999 stock) after trying some other simple fixes that didn't work. (just soft fixes not flashing anything weird) But next thing I know the phone is soft bricked and all the tuts I see just say to push this .tar or that .img and pass or fail the phone never boots and I haven't had any kind of recovery menu since the first flash. The counter is at 17 or some-****ing-thing. At this point I've tried both sprint and t-mobile roms just out of desperation but nothing has gotten me out of the softbrick. The download menu also identifies it as a sgh-t999.
I hope someone here can help. Best as I can remember that's everything besides any logs you guys want to see.
Friend of mine got a refurbished S3. Later we find she needs a newer firmware than the stock 4.3 to use pokemon go so I tell her I'll put cm13 on it and she'll be at 6.0 and it should run fine. In the process of trying to put cm13 on I find that the recovery error I'm getting is telling me that it's actually a sprint S3 even though the model number in the software and under the battery says sgh-t999. So I try the sprint cm13 file and it boots and seems to work fine. Weeks later we discover she hasn't been receiving calls. No notification, nothing. Everything else works, she has Internet, she can call out, she even gets voice-mail notifications if people leave them. This is no good, so I try to roll her back to stock (sgh-t999 stock) after trying some other simple fixes that didn't work. (just soft fixes not flashing anything weird) But next thing I know the phone is soft bricked and all the tuts I see just say to push this .tar or that .img and pass or fail the phone never boots and I haven't had any kind of recovery menu since the first flash. The counter is at 17 or some-****ing-thing. At this point I've tried both sprint and t-mobile roms just out of desperation but nothing has gotten me out of the softbrick. The download menu also identifies it as a sgh-t999.
I hope someone here can help. Best as I can remember that's everything besides any logs you guys want to see.
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