My friend just tryed to restore his Hero, using Nandroid, but something wen't wrong. Now he cannot turn the phone back on agin. We tryed the combinations: "power+home" "vollumeDown+power" "back+vollumeDown+power" and nothing is happening.
What can we do in order to get it up and running agin?
You have bricked your Hero. I bricked mine too and couldn't find the answer to unbrick it. So I sent it off to be repaired.
Damn. I tought there was a way around it. I mean, i don't think that HTC is just gonna throw out the phone?
What is the actual cause of the bricking?
Well, i dont know. I talked to him over skype. He had an .img that he made, before he installed the new rom. He then wanted to get the backup on agin, because he forgot to export the caldender befor switching rom.
The switching of rom's was no problem, but the restore was..
A few phones have turned into bricks recently, starting to concern me with the amount of flashing I have been doing lately...
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Hi guys,
I successfully flashed Android to my HD2 a few months back. I used what I believe is Cotulla's rom(?). However the other day my phone sorta died and whenever I plugged it into the charger it would vibrate go through the boot screen and reset at the "1234 go go go" stage. I read some reading on the forum and flashed it back to "RUU_Leo_S_HTC_WWE_3.14.405.2_Radio_15.42.50.11U_2.15.50.14_LEO_S_Ship" from the HTC website, using the SD card. Windows mobile restored the phone and I started using it again.
I tried to put android back on it and I think I unsuccessfully tried to update the radio after which the phone sorta died again. So I thought ok, no problem, lets get back to windows again. So I installed the HTC rom again through the SD card, which the screen told me was successful. But now I can't get the phone to boot or go into bootloader or anything. When I plug the charger in, I get a vibrate and HTC bootscreen, with the red writing at the bottom left and then dead to only do this again and again. If i pull out the charger, the phone just dies. Battery charge was about 50% when it died.
Any ideas or help on how to resurrect my beloved HD2 would be greatly appreciated!
*quick update*
I stuck the phone in the fridge for a while and managed to get it into the bootloader just once and flashed the official winmo rom again, which was successful but still dead phone!
What made you decide to stick the phone in the fridge??
What is your SPL version??
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What made you decide to stick the phone in the fridge??
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Probably the dozens of threads that talk about successfully flashing only when the phone has been cooled.
@op it doesn't look good. Usually the fridge trick working implies hardware overheating issues.
Just confirm please, its not a tmous right?
Samsamuel is right, i just read about it and thought hey, why not! plus it got a priceless look from the mrs! lol
It's definitely not TMOUS, its UK Virgin and the SPL was 3.03.0000 if I recall correctly.
When I cool it, I can get it into bootloader, but only once.
well, i still suspect its hardware and unfixable, but there have been cases where for whatever reason a rom suddenly seems to fix it. Try all the versions of the correct stock Rom.
Try the 1.43 the 1,66 and again the 3.14, wwe ones, chilling the phone well before each flash, a good 20 mins.
I have a SGH-I747M 4.1.1 Galaxy S3.
I used the Unified Toolkit and rooted/installed CWM, backuped and ready for a new ROM.
As I was installing this custom ROM (Pardus HD), and error popped up and it was aborted, (still in the CWM main menu)
but having only the said custom ROM zip file in the internal memory,
I figured I just shut down and download a fresh copy of the ROM.
and put it in an external SD card then power on the phone back into recovery.
Only thing is it wont power on anymore, the screen is just black, plugging in USB and computer just makes connected/disconnected noise.
(Devices say its "Qualcomm HS-USB DQLoader 9008")
Also tried taking out putting in the battery.
(I know my mistake is I never re-installed the backup) I've run out of ideas, please help.
I have a very similar problem. I had my battery checked thinking that could be the problem. My battery shows that is no good. I tried a new one and still nothing. I can't help but think if it were a missing program it would still come on at least. Lucky for me its covered under insurance. I'd still like to know what happened and if I could fix it.
I'd like to know too if I could fix it myself, other than ''the jig'' or a repair service. currenty trying to revive it still
edit: currently trying this Heimdall thing, goodluck to me...
Have you checked the battery? If I wasn't sending mine back on an insurance claim I would take it apart. I have a Motorola that has a fuse next to the battery under the back of the case. Seems dumb, I know but how could changing the rom "short" out my battery. Dumb again I always thought bricking was only being able to bring up recovery.
I think the battery is fine, as CWM was still running after the error.
That's pretty much what happened to me. Maybe we got to the same problem 2 different ways. Hope you get it figured out.
THIS IS GT-I9300 SECTION..
c'mon there was an stickie on top of this section for you..
HERE.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1705
Your problem is that you flashed a rom for gt-i9300 (International) and you have some U.S. variant of s3. That in most cases bricks the phone.
Probably time for a service center visit.
hey guys thanks for any help. here is my problem.
i got an s3 i9300T to fix for sister in law. she apparently went in to telstra and got told that if it was her fault she would have ot pay for the repairs and she needed a phone while its away so she just payed of the contract. not sure what she exactly wants except for her data back.
upon taking a quick look it had a familiar screen. the computer triangle phone screen. im like sweet easy fix with an odin flash.
i installed a 4.0.4 version of telstra software(will look what one later) and it magically booted im like sweet. then encounter the sim lock. had to wait a day for the information so i left it over night on charge. (she wanted her contacts as well apparently but at the time i didn't know what she wanted really and i didnt just think to take out the sim.) ended up asking what she exeactly was wanting and phone was looking fine. tryed to update through kies and apparetly wasnt not able to be done on that android version. i left it another day and noticed that it was stuck on that boot logo/splash screen. i noticed i can still get in to recovery and download so i tryed to reflash same software. unsuccessful half way i tryed to use a 4.1.2 version that would not get pasts a tz** (replace starts with letters i cant remember atm) i suggested to just keep in on wanrrenty as odin hasnt counted anything yet. but they seam more for data recovery. should i try something iive tryed again or not tryed. or just try flashing recovery and trying to get the data off that way?
as i cant access stock recovery atm and its back to the computer triangle?
i know i dragged on sorry hope i explained correctly.
sorry fail to understand the post and your problem.
If its SDS you cannot recover data but you can fix with a new motherboard .
as far as i can tell i cant get the device too boot or accept new firmware, and it looks to be the sds problem but im not sure.. i think ill try and install a custom recovery and see if i cant mount it and get the data back.
So i'm new to this phone and moto phones altogether. I had rooted, put 2.7twrp on, and then flashed a couple roms tonight after getting the phone earlier today. I just went into recovery and thought since I don't have much space on the internal sd I would erase the stock rom and now the phone wont boot even though i flashed liquid smooth. I've never heard of a phone having two roms on it and definitely didn't know not to delete the stock one on this phone. Is there any way to fix this? Please tell me there is because the only reason i'm using this is because i bricked my lg g2 last week so my sister is letting me use her razr and now i've bricked it! I'm hoping there is a fix :/ thanks to whoever bothers.
I think i got it fixed.
I'm able to use the button combo to get the screen where i can choose recovery or fastboot and whatnot so I'm thinking I can fix this phone but I'm not sure what to do. All the threads seem to be for the xt910. can someone please show me what thread to use to fix this phone.
got it fixed
used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192467 and option 1 to fix it. Already had used this to root and later realised I could use it to recover a soft brick.
This is for verizon XT912 users
So i have a sprint lg g3 its not exaclty bricked but i pretty much nuked it. Has a never ending pop up window that says unfortunately com.android.phone has stopped working or something along those lines. I did make a nandroid right after rooting but being a noob i made a v 3.0 READ ONLY backup that i now cant even use. Wont boot it... So im stuck. I did a normal wipe and got reseted back to factory with the pop up still popping up!!!!!:crying: so i seriously dont know what to do i dont care if i loose root i just want my phone back its my second time soft bricking a phone i am bummed right now.
What i did to nuke it was i obviously overwrote some working sprint network files with some verizon files. Something called node.db and journal idk but it seemed too easy to be true i shouldnt had done it. I wish i could load my nandroid i made i wouodnt had made it if i knew i want gonna be able to load from it lits like 5 or 6 gigs what is the point.. I did not know it wasnt going to load i am so upset...