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Help Broke phone with build.prop!

Alex Boullé

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Jul 18, 2015
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Help! On my samsung galaxy y gts5363, I edited the build prop to make my phone think its a Samsung galaxy s3. But now it does not open any apos and displays the message "application stopped unexpectedly". All my apps are useless apart from texting and calling. I edited the build.prop with an app, but now I can't open the app to edit it again. Also I've tried accessing it on a pc, but I can't find it.

Please help!
 
I dont know how to reinstall the stock firmware
What region you in?

You can use Kies or Odin to re-flash the stock firmware.
Make sure your device have at least 80% battery power. [How to Check Battery Percentage in Android Device]
You already have USB Driver Installed for Galaxy Y in your PC. If not then you should download and install Kies from Samsung website.
Make sure USB Debugging is enabled. [Guide]
 
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Turn on USB Debugging. And you've nothing to lose by trying I guess... Ive used Odin to flash a rooted phone back to stock and it was fine but it's your own risk.
And I don't think you want it to be recognised as a media device but we need a Samsung expert to confirm that
 
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