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Hacked?

christopher denbleyker

christopher denbleyker

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I was talking to a friend and my screen froze.. my bluetooth earbuds were still stating that they were connected, yet no picture. NOTHING. and since it had froze, I force powered it off and back on... again, my earbuds state that they are connected, but no screen. NOW, heres the kicker, when I plug in a usb and connect to my laptop, when I look to the left side were the files and folders are... where it says Galaxy J7 Star there should be 2 branches off of it like card and phone... but after the force power down.. theres nothing there either...
Did the files that would run my phone somehow get deleted?? If do, is there somewhere I can go to download the proper files that coinside with my device to get it working again..?
 
"Bug" and "hardware failure" are both far, far more likely than "hacked".

In fact your phone must be booted into android for your computer to be able to talk to it, so your operating system is intact. So a quick question: if you force the phone to reboot does the screen remain black throughout, or do you see some startup animation as usual and then it goes black? If the latter then there's a problem with the android software, but if the former it could be a hardware failure.

You can download firmware from sammobile.com if you want to try reflashing - you'll need to know your full model number, and you need to use a program called Odin or maybe Smart Switch to flash it (I'm not a Samsung expert, but there will be instructions on the site somewhere).
 
When you rebooted and during boot does anything show up on the screen, if yes then you might be able to get into recovery on boot ??
 
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