so my story goes as this. just flashing my tytn (x01ht) with a custom built rom from the kitchen, ran ruu as normal and when iit begins at 0% it fails and suggests to me how to correct the mistake by pulling the battery out. so i do that and put it back in afterwards. now it wont even power up. lookup in the wiki to try and jump start it by pluging in the usb power cable, led goes red and put in the battery and led goes black not the yellow that means charging. so now i freak out. try this several times hoping that it will go yellow but nothing.
so i think i have a nice looking expensive brick that i could just pawn for parts or is there still hope left in it. i had flashed it about 10 times before this ever happened.
anyone there to put me out of my misery or can it be revived from the dead
much thanks for any response
Hi, I can just tell you what helped me in a similar situation: Take the battery out, put the charging plug in, (is the light on red than?), put the battery in again. Now press power button, commmanager button and soft reset at once - this is when my came back to tricolor screen. Before that I put a rom file that I renamed to herming.nbh on the empty SD card - I'm not sure if this is necessary, since it didn't start to install the rom from the SD. I hope this may help you.
thanks for the response.
thats what i have been trying to do. on a working one it will bring up ktl mode or the led goes yellow for charging but on my brick it doesnt do anything at all, not even the bootloader comes up.
I've read http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=ATOM_BRICK
and http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=DeadBoot
My problem is, I'm not sure if I've bricked my phone or not.
I tried to flash a rom from my SD card on recieved a "no file found on disk" error (or something close to that). I hit reset, and now nothing happens with I turn on or reset my device.
It seems the charge light went from red to green, so at some level its working.
If I leave the power cable plugged in, the light stays red (and eventually goes green, I assume when changed). If I take the battery out with the power still plugged in, the light flickers red/green/red/green then goes blank.
If I leave the power cable plugged in, and remove the battery and then wait a few mins, all the lights momentarily flash.
I'm just not sure how to get back to the bootloader? I've read to try putting the battery back in while holding down the 2 soft keys, but thats not working.
I remember on the 6828 that I had to press reset and on while holding the soft keys to reboot?
I'm really struggling here.
Is it the soft keys? Is it the action key and reset?
(I WAS using a cooked ATOM rom on my 6828)
Please? Any suggestions? I'm really not up to building a cable!
UPDATE: Ok.. I've recovered. Short version: take out SD card and battery. Hold down reset button AND the 2 soft keys WHILE putting the battery in (this take some co-ordination). Wait a few seconds (up to 20) and should come back.
wallaceff said:
I've read http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=ATOM_BRICK
and http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=DeadBoot
My problem is, I'm not sure if I've bricked my phone or not.
I tried to flash a rom from my SD card on recieved a "no file found on disk" error (or something close to that). I hit reset, and now nothing happens with I turn on or reset my device.
It seems the charge light went from red to green, so at some level its working.
If I leave the power cable plugged in, the light stays red (and eventually goes green, I assume when changed). If I take the battery out with the power still plugged in, the light flickers red/green/red/green then goes blank.
If I leave the power cable plugged in, and remove the battery and then wait a few mins, all the lights momentarily flash.
I'm just not sure how to get back to the bootloader? I've read to try putting the battery back in while holding down the 2 soft keys, but thats not working.
I remember on the 6828 that I had to press reset and on while holding the soft keys to reboot?
I'm really struggling here.
Is it the soft keys? Is it the action key and reset?
(I WAS using a cooked ATOM rom on my 6828)
Please? Any suggestions? I'm really not up to building a cable!
UPDATE: Ok.. I've recovered. Short version: take out SD card and battery. Hold down reset button AND the 2 soft keys WHILE putting the battery in (this take some co-ordination). Wait a few seconds (up to 20) and should come back.
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dude its a known trick.....hahha u a newbee fer all dis stuffs....
nice tips bro
Hi all,
I need an advice from you guys please:
My Topaz is not turning on, it simply does not do anything.
Last time I wanted to change the language but my battery was not fully charged, so in the process it suddenly turned off and since that time I am not able to turn it on, does not display nothing on screen when I press the on button it just vibrates continuously and not stop, and that´s it...
The charging light was on the 1st time I tried, but not the second time.
It is SIM unlocked but not hardspl´ed
Any advice would be great!
Thanks in advance
UPDATE 13-Mar-10
Today, I connected Topaz to wall charger, amber led turned for about 10 sec, then turns of, then vibrates, then nothing again.
I tried to do hard reset, nothing happened, then after some minutes the device is short vibrating every 1 min aprox, no led on, still can´t do nothing more.
EDIT: After 15 min of short vibrating every 1 min, now it´s completely dead again........
Thanks for reading,
Can you put it in bootloader? Is a hardreset possible?
Try to turn the phone off, remove battery, and insert it again. Then hold vol down and press power. Do you get red/green/blue (or whatever) colors?
If you do. let it boot until it says USB (perhaps need to connect usb to PC for it to change from serial to usb) and after that just run the topaz ruu and it should flash.
If you dont get it to start to 3 color screen try and hold up+down and press power.
yes, Vol down and powerbutton. should boot to serial/usb flash screen.
Thanks guys for your reply
Soon as I get home I´ll try and report back
Cheers,
Flash a stock ROM
jmkhenka said:
Try to turn the phone off, remove battery, and insert it again. Then hold vol down and press power. Do you get red/green/blue (or whatever) colors?
If you do. let it boot until it says USB (perhaps need to connect usb to PC for it to change from serial to usb) and after that just run the topaz ruu and it should flash.
If you dont get it to start to 3 color screen try and hold up+down and press power.
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Hi
Just check that if you try to reflash the ROM whether you should use a stock ROM vs modified ROM as you wrote that you do not have HardSPL on your Topaz.
Once you have successfully reflashed using stock ROM do a hard reset and then install HardSPL 1.83.
Good luck
Aussie
Still need help!!
Ok guys,
Let me explain you what happened:
None of the instructions above worked...
Can´t put on bootloader, hard reset nothing happens
When connected to wall charger amber led is on, if I press power button led turns off and vibrates, then led turns on again but nothing else happens.
Pressed down vol and power = Nothing happens
Pressed up/down vol and power = nothing happens
EDIT: Connected to PC and automatuically installed a qualcomm driver not detected also by WMDC
Disconnected from PC then connected again to wall charger and now amber led not turns on....
Please help!!
Any other advice please!
I really don´t know what else to do
Thanks in advance for taking your time on this thread
Per your PM, I'll certainly help you if I can.
Do you happen to know what caused it to brick? This will help determine how to bring it back. Did you attempt to flash a custom ROM w/o HSPL?
I am not an expert on this but have seen some chefs claim they can bring back a bricked device.
There is a program called MTTY that can usually get your phone to connect to your PC and there are functions to run in that program that can get it to a flashable state so you can reflash your shipped ROM.
Also search the Wiki for restoring bricked device, regardless of the model, it should be the same process. I think I have seen this in the Tilt(Kaiser) forum and maybe in the Fuze (Raphael) forum.
I haven't used this program in a while so I forget the commands but you should be able to find them in a search.
In the meantime I'll do a little research too and see what I can find out.
The main thing we need to accomplish is getting you back into bootloader mode.
1. Here is a link for recovering a Hermes and it has info on mtty.
Thanks a lot Bruce,
I have the original ROM and my Topaz is the unbranded model.
I was just trying to change language but battery was too low, then it turned of and you know the rest of the story.
I have it SIM unlocked but not hardspl´ed and I was not doing any ROM upgrade or so...
I´ll try to use MTTY and find about your recommendations, later report back.
I appreciate a lot your reply!
Cheers,
EDIT: Tested MTTY but in some point says "power on the unit " but that is what I can´t do, nothing happens
Will continue testing and searching...
This is from the Wiki. It may help. Says to use PUTTY instead of MTTY... with instructions.
Another thread on recovering device.
Bruce Inman said:
This is from the Wiki. It may help. Says to use PUTTY instead of MTTY... with instructions.
Another thread on recovering device.
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Thanks Bruce,
I went through both links but nothing...
The main prob is that I can´t even make it turn on...
Now when wall charger is plugged I do not have the charging led on, so I am really lost...
I do not have another battery to test but I don´t think is that because Topaz is almost new!
But Now I think it´s not charging the battery...
Hope any other idea can save me
If it is almost new try to send it to warranty!if it has the original hspl no prob then!is better then trying to reapair youself, with the cost of loosing warranty!
Good luck with that!!!
Thanks, but I do not have that option
I have high hopes with all the great team of XDA!
first thing first,you have to have power in your phone.....borrow the battery from someone or recharge your battery in somebody else's phone.......then try to go in to bootloader mode (volume button down and power button)..........
komsa said:
first thing first,you have to have power in your phone.....borrow the battery from someone or recharge your battery in somebody else's phone.......then try to go in to bootloader mode (volume button down and power button)..........
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Yep!
I ordered today another battery
Soon as I get it will report back.
Thanks,
Maybe this will help
It happened to me once. Nothing seemed to work. What did work, I left the phone charging for a day. First take ou the battery for at least a minute. Put it back on. Then connect the wall charger to the phone and let it charge. Hope this will help.
When it happened to me the LED wasn't working either, just connect the charger and let it charge.
Thanks,
I done that yesterday and left it all night but nothing...
I really hope is a battery problem, I´ll find out soon as I receive my new one
wrong place
Exactly samething happened to me.. the only difference was that I was using google maps and connected to my car charger. It somehow didn't charge and ran out of power and kept restarting whenever I tried to charge from a wall-socket.
This is what i did... worked for me.
Take out the battery from the back
Hold down the power button for at least 30 seconds to drain out the static charge.
Take out the sim
Plug in the USB to the phone (without the battery and without the sim)
With the phone connected, press the Red button at the back (soft reset)
Unplug the phone from the charger
Put the battery back in
Connect the USB to charge
Cross your fingers and say a lil prayer
Wait for 30 minutes
Turn it back on.
Lemme know how that goes 4 u
Thanks
I done all your procedure but after this point: [*]Connect the USB to charge
Led charging light did not turned on...
By now my only chance is to test with a new battery (which I will receive on thursday), but I do not have too many hopes as the device is almost new
I´ll report back on friday.
Thanks to all and I will be happy to receive any other suggestion
Hi. First sorry for my english
I have a problem. The phone show me message at screen: Please restart the phone. What i was done, so he turned off and this is end. After that nothing works. even power button or hold long power + vol down. The display is dead. Does not react to anything. Computers do not see phone, i tried on different cables and original and not. The only thing is that when you plug in the power supply, after a while the red LED lights up, which after a while goes out and again lights up (but does not blink) and so ... Strange thing, because the phone itself asked nicely for off but already up I do not want to ... Does anyone know what can be done? I searched google for answers what unfortunately nothing concrete.
Well please help
S9 plus 64gb
Hi all, was hoping someone could help.
I have recently, last month, changed the battery, so I know it's not the battery. When I plug in a charger the phone is unresponsive, drawing only 0.05amps. if I leave it over night the green led will light up and when I press the power key the screen says 100%. When I try to boot there is no response. I have tried
Power +vol down
Power +vol up
Power +vol up +down
Power and all buttons
For about 30sec but still no boot or anything. I'm thinking maybe fried board, but was hoping software issue. Is there anything i could try to boot it?
Many thanks
Possible that a connector came loose?
Make sure no foreign conductive debris was accidentally introduced... a small loose screw. Check that all screws are in place in the assemblies.
Is the power switch good?
Hi thanks for the reply, I checked there's no loose or foreign object near the charge port. When I assembled the phone all screws were replaced so no loose screws. When the phone is charged ,ie green led I press the power button and the phone activates the screen to display 100%, this tells me the power button is working. Do you have anymore suggestions would be helpful. Many thanks.
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Hi thanks for the reply, I checked there's no loose or foreign object near the charge port. When I assembled the phone all screws were replaced so no loose screws. When the phone is charged ,ie green led I press the power button and the phone activates the screen to display 100%, this tells me the power button is working. Do you have anymore suggestions would be helpful. Many thanks.
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If it won't go into the boot menu it's not looking good. Try a hard reset.
The subassemblies when out of circuit are susceptible to ESD damage. Handle these like a stick of ram particularly the mobo and display. At the very least raise room humidity to 50% and wear all clothes. In addition a earth grounded ESD mat and wrist strap are recommended as are following ESD protocols.
Otherwise you may or may not get away with it.
Hi thanks for the help. Yh the problem occurred during normal use. How would I do a hard reset if no menus are displaying? Many thanks.
charliecheung81 said:
Hi thanks for the help. Yh the problem occurred during normal use. How would I do a hard reset if no menus are displaying? Many thanks.
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Pull battery connection.
Recheck all ribbon connectors while you're at it.
Yep done that still the same. No response. Guess the main board maybe fried.