So, I am an Apple expatriate Finally fulfilled my dream after several years and switched to a Samsung Galaxy S4 i337m (with Telus) and within a day of getting it home I messed it right up :S
I guess I didn't realize that any "mods" I would be interested in doing to my phone could be done without rooting the phone and then proceeding to mess it up totally...
Here's what happened basically: (remember, I had never touched an android before and didn't know what I was doing) I rooted the phone, no problem. Then I flashed CyanogenMod onto it. This is where the problems started. I didn't know at the time what custom ROMs are. Having jailbroke my previous iPhone 4S and done a bunch of cool stuff with it, I though I was installing something like Cydia (for a jailbroken iPhone) to help me play around with this rooting I had so successfully achieved...
Well obviously it's not like Cydia. It's a whole new operating system for your phone, and I didn't like it at all. If I had of known what I was doing and could have knowledgeably picked a custom ROM, it would not have been CyanogenMod. I wanted it back to stock and I managed to get it back to stock, sort of... It looked the same pretty much but I had no sound what so ever, no wifi, I couldn't pick up phone calls, when I made a phone call it would call out but the screen would go black and still no sound, it was slow and glitchy, when I went into the settings the phone would lock itself and get all weird..... So I had no idea what to do.
I dropped it off at a repair shop a few days ago. I really hope they can fix it and they don't charge me an arm and a leg. He said he couldn't really give me a price until it was done...
So that's my story! And from now on I'm going to consult a knowledgeable forum community, like this one, before I ever mess with my phone again
UPDATE: I got my phone back safe and sound and it works perfectly again Really loving this phone this time around lol
I guess I didn't realize that any "mods" I would be interested in doing to my phone could be done without rooting the phone and then proceeding to mess it up totally...
Here's what happened basically: (remember, I had never touched an android before and didn't know what I was doing) I rooted the phone, no problem. Then I flashed CyanogenMod onto it. This is where the problems started. I didn't know at the time what custom ROMs are. Having jailbroke my previous iPhone 4S and done a bunch of cool stuff with it, I though I was installing something like Cydia (for a jailbroken iPhone) to help me play around with this rooting I had so successfully achieved...
Well obviously it's not like Cydia. It's a whole new operating system for your phone, and I didn't like it at all. If I had of known what I was doing and could have knowledgeably picked a custom ROM, it would not have been CyanogenMod. I wanted it back to stock and I managed to get it back to stock, sort of... It looked the same pretty much but I had no sound what so ever, no wifi, I couldn't pick up phone calls, when I made a phone call it would call out but the screen would go black and still no sound, it was slow and glitchy, when I went into the settings the phone would lock itself and get all weird..... So I had no idea what to do.
I dropped it off at a repair shop a few days ago. I really hope they can fix it and they don't charge me an arm and a leg. He said he couldn't really give me a price until it was done...
So that's my story! And from now on I'm going to consult a knowledgeable forum community, like this one, before I ever mess with my phone again
UPDATE: I got my phone back safe and sound and it works perfectly again Really loving this phone this time around lol