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I faced a similar quantum bug in my teen years. I was very much into Android custom roms and flashing phones. I got my hands on Galaxy Y, a cheap Android phone running gingerbread. So, while flashing the phone, the the flash process always failed after around 20-30%. I suspected loose cable connection and tried again. The subsequent flashes failed even early around 5%. So I waited for a while and tried again. The same loop started - first flash fails around 20% and subsequent flash fails around 5%.

During this, I noticed the phone gets heated up above average of what I had experience with. I suspected motherboard might be faulty. Then, a random idea struck me and I put the phone in freezer wrapped in a cloth. After an hour or so, I again started the flash process. The phone was still wrapped in cloth aside the table to keep it cool during the process. And lo and behold, the process completed without a hitch.

In later years I realised it was surely due to the cheap and substandard flash memory that Samsung supplies to other countries compared to the western counterparts.