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Hard bricked Galaxy S7

(Topic created: 10-14-2024 04:40 PM)
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Hello! I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 lying around and it's not working, from what I heard, it is "hard bricked" which means that it's not working and just showing a black screen. Tried charging it, no sign. It was because I installed a app, and it started going weird as it froze, and I had to force it to shut down. It worked the next time, but froze again. Tried booting it in Safe mode, but it still froze. I want to get it working again.
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meself
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Whatever you download that caused it would need to be removed beyond a factory reset not sure
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It was a Google app and even though it was compatible with my phone, maybe Google pushed out an update that made it not be supported on my S7. Not sure either.
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meself
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Don't know of many if any ar all apps that would be working on a s7 it would tell you the requirements I'm the about app
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The Play Store says what the app is compatible with in the description. I don't know why my phone went weird after the installation.
meself
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What was the app
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It was for Google's not so new anymore AI app named Gemini.
meself
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I don't believe Gemini would be compatible on the s7
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True! Don't know why it was compatible for Android 8.0 at that time.
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Android 10 and up