{"id":137,"date":"2015-04-15T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:13:47","slug":"death-of-a-note-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/death-of-a-note-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Note II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Note II died yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>It rebooted in the middle of nothing, then went to the startup \/ boot screen. \u00a0Quite normal. But it wouldn&#8217;t leave that screen. \u00a0So I pulled the battery. \u00a0Put it back. \u00a0Same thing, booted to the normal screen.<\/p>\n<p>No worries I thought, I&#8217;ll just boot into recovery. \u00a0The recovery would start, then crash. \u00a0No menu, no options. \u00a0Didn&#8217;t look good. \u00a0I tried to flash stock using ODIN. \u00a0Kept failing with write errors, then it wouldn&#8217;t even boot up anymore. \u00a0A few more attempts, flashing the PIT file etc and now it&#8217;s deader than dead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/note2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-223\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/note2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Galaxy Note 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/note2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/note2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/note2-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/note2.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galaxy Note 2<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I guess the EMMC chip has gone. \u00a0Alas. \u00a0It was a good phone, if a little laggy. \u00a0Well, a lot laggy. \u00a0That&#8217;s the reason I&#8217;m just waiting on my Nexus 6 to arrive, which should be any day now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never buy another Samsung again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Note II died yesterday. It rebooted in the middle of nothing, then went to the startup \/ boot screen. \u00a0Quite normal. But it wouldn&#8217;t leave that screen. \u00a0So I pulled the battery. \u00a0Put it back. \u00a0Same thing, booted to the normal screen. No worries I thought, I&#8217;ll just boot into recovery. \u00a0The recovery would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10,2],"tags":[86,87,84,55,85,83],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-technical","category-thoughts","tag-angry","tag-dead","tag-mobile","tag-phone","tag-sad","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.muppetz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}