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Monday, March 3, 2014
Why I Choose iPhone
Recently I have been trying to help someone at work with a broken Samsung Galaxy S3. The device will not power on whatsoever. After doing some research I discovered that the S3, like most Android phones, will not power on the screen if the boot loader has become corrupted.
I started looking into the possibility of recovering the boot loader. It turns out that there is a boot image you can load onto an SD card that will boot the phone and attempt to recovery the boot loader. I wrote the image to an SD card, popped it in, and the LCD turned on. Some text then showed up on the screen. Here's what it does:
After doing more research, my conclusion is that the flash memory on this phone became corrupted. There is no way to read or write an image to this phone anymore.
This is not the first time I have seen similar problems with Android hardware. I have never seen an iPhone do anything like this. I need a phone that I can depend on that won't randomly decide that its flash memory is suddenly corrupted.
That's my rant for the day.
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