Did I brick my phone :'( ?

[Benjamin Rochefort]

Le 2012-12-16 05:29, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit :
> Le lundi 26 novembre 2012 à 08:27 -0500, ben at benwen.info a écrit :
>> Thank you so much, Michael!  This was just the kind of tip I needed.  I
>> was completely ignorant of the fact that on a Galaxy S, pressing FOUR
>> keys (Vol+, Vol-, Select, Power) simultaneously boots you into recovery
>> mode.  I was thus able to reinstall a CM10 zip that was on the SD card
>> and go back to my comfort zone.  I guess I'll need a better
>> understanding of some fundamental concepts before reattempting to flash
>> Replicant.
> Your experience with flashing Replicant made me realize that the the
> instructions to install Replicant on Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 are not
> appropriate at all since, as you have experienced it, it may very well
> put the device in an unusable state. It is NOT bricked, there is ALWAYS
> a possibility to recover in such cases, but it's not obvious for someone
> who's not used to it and it may then frighten the user, who will then be
> afraid of installing Replicant in the future.
>
> That's definitely not what we want, so that's why I spent hours
> yesterday trying to figure out a better and cleaner way to flash on
> these devices. It is now safe and leaves no chance of putting the device
> in an unusable state. This new flash method will be released along with
> the 0002 Replicant 4.0 images. Please wait until then if you want to
> flash your device with Replicant.
>
> I personally apologize for the inconvenience that flashing Replicant
> caused you in the past.

No need to apologize - we're all trying our best and it's not as if you 
had sold me something and I was an unhappy customer ;). I am looking 
forward to seeing the new procedure when it is published. Keep up the 
good work!