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If your phone was bricked in any way, but still shows something on the screen when powered on or plugged in, try this.
1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off)
2. Don't turn it the phone on!
3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button!
4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen
IF the phone screen does show the battery charger or something else on the screen after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.
5. Now while it's on like this, hold the volume up and volume down buttons.
6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black.
7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!
When done properly, this will always get you into Download mode. After that you should be able to use Odin to revert to stock, tar and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
This fixed my 'odd' bricks. Over and over again.
I'd say it's impossible to truly brick this phone.
I have been researching this most of the day, due to some testing I was doing, and the one thing I have come to realize is that this phone recovers well from "brick" it's not a true brick it's just scary. One of the posts I read, here on xda, said that unless the blue progress bar started advancing while using Odin, you can unplug, pull battery fairly safely.
davbran said:
I have been researching this most of the day, due to some testing I was doing, and the one thing I have come to realize is that this phone recovers well from "brick" it's not a true brick it's just scary. One of the posts I read, here on xda, said that unless the blue progress bar started advancing while using Odin, you can unplug, pull battery fairly safely.
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Haha well that's exactly what happened to me. I flashed wrong with Odin and it failed halfway through, and I had no choice but to reboot the phone.
And when I did I got a truly odd screen. All I could see was a picture of a phone connected to an exclamation point connected to a laptop. That's it. Lol.
And I fixed it by doing this.
omg, i love you This totally fixed my problem XD
Everyone kept saying go to download mode, but no one ever said to "7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!"
super life saver... thanks alot
I actually did find someone else say to do that but it was out of luck as it was deeply buried. Don't remember where it was here lol
Its nice to have people who help us newbies
andershizzle said:
Haha well that's exactly what happened to me. I flashed wrong with Odin and it failed halfway through, and I had no choice but to reboot the phone.
And when I did I got a truly odd screen. All I could see was a picture of a phone connected to an exclamation point connected to a laptop. That's it. Lol.
And I fixed it by doing this.
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Yea, last night I was messing around with the latest lag fix, but it ending up causing a lot of FC's, so I had to revert to stock a few times. I tried to make it work using ext2 and ext3, but it still wasn't stable enough. I didn't enjoy the noticeable speed increase, but it wasn't worth it since launcher pro was one of the programs that was FCing.
Anyways, so after I gave up for the 3rd time, I flashed stock using ODIN and it got stuck. I left it there for awhile with no progress and the phone's screen actually just went completely black. I pulled the battery and got the weird cell phone pointing to computer icon. I almost crapped my pants at that point. Very scary moment since I had not seen that screen before.
A quick google search for "bricked Vibrant" led me to this thread and voila! My Vibrant is alive and well again.
Thanks a bunch.
PS: After reflashing stock that many times, I still find it strange that after a fresh flash, I still get a noticeable speed boost by wiping the phone through the privacy setting. Not sure if it's a placebo effect, but I swear it makes a noticeable difference every time.
Maverick777 said:
Yea, last night I was messing around with the latest lag fix, but it ending up causing a lot of FC's, so I had to revert to stock a few times. I tried to make it work using ext2 and ext3, but it still wasn't stable enough. I didn't enjoy the noticeable speed increase, but it wasn't worth it since launcher pro was one of the programs that was FCing.
Anyways, so after I gave up for the 3rd time, I flashed stock using ODIN and it got stuck. I left it there for awhile with no progress and the phone's screen actually just went completely black. I pulled the battery and got the weird cell phone pointing to computer icon. I almost crapped my pants at that point. Very scary moment since I had not seen that screen before.
A quick google search for "bricked Vibrant" led me to this thread and voila! My Vibrant is alive and well again.
Thanks a bunch.
PS: After reflashing stock that many times, I still find it strange that after a fresh flash, I still get a noticeable speed boost by wiping the phone through the privacy setting. Not sure if it's a placebo effect, but I swear it makes a noticeable difference every time.
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Glad I could help!
And that's intersting. I'll make sure to wipe the privacy settings. I actually haven't ever wiped them yet.
No go for me.
I used the stupid partition tool in rom manager. partitioned the internal memory not the sd card.
Saw a few others did this, and this worked for them, either right away or after flashing eugene's froyo rom then reverting back, but that rom just hangs on cache.fsd or something like that.
Trying to repartition through odin, with no download files selected right now. It does not appear to be doing anything, just set pit file, then do not turn off target in odin.
Will leave it for a bit, maybe try to flash this again, i think the issue might be deeper for me though. need kernel and everything else.
I did that but my phone locked up and now all I get is a picture of a yellow cation sign next to a little phone and pc pic.. anything I can do at this point or??
tried going into recovery and download mode but it wont let me past that screen.
Thank you so much for this, I received a replacement set 2 days ago and was playing around the the phone and I bricked it, it thought it was frozen so I pulled the batter and it bricked.
I followed your instructions and it works like a charm. What I did find though is that i can't seem you use odin on a mac even with a virtual machine. I had to use an actual PC.
tweezit said:
I did that but my phone locked up and now all I get is a picture of a yellow cation sign next to a little phone and pc pic.. anything I can do at this point or??
tried going into recovery and download mode but it wont let me past that screen.
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This is exactly the screen I had. Follow my instructions exactly and you'll get into download mode (at least i did)
This should be made a sticky.
thank you thank you thank you
Sticky this thread.
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Great find for all.
has anyone found a way to unbrick a flashed EU rom then the person flashed to US rom? and then the power wont come on? But the unit does get hot when plugged in?
Im trying to see if i need to jtag this thing. or if anyone had success?
Thanks
ok so my vibrant gave me the cell phone and computer screen i got it back in download mode. started odin to get it back to stock but no matter how long i let odin go nothing happens i got the files that i need for odin out of a thread on these forums and i have followed the directions to the letter and still nothing. any help some one can give would be great. thank you for your time.
How do I know if my phone is being picked up by Odin or being flashed?
did the same thing the clockwork partition wiped my internal memory
F**k!
woop guess im going to tmobile in the a.m. and playin the whole
idk what happened it wont turn on
thank god for the 14 day return policy!
I ran into "brick mode" myself 2 nights ago and could not get my phone into download mode. Any possible combo of volume key up/down and power had no effect. Just that phone exclamation point pc icon slowly blinking in the center of the screen. I did finally get it into download mode but it wasn't using any of the previously mentioned methods, so I'll add one more to the growing list to try. This one worked for me after almost 4 hours of experimenting.
BTW....my phone would never display the battery charging image when powered off and plugged in. Just this same annoying image.
Pull the battery. Put it back in. Hold the just the volume down button. Do not hold the power button. Plug in either a wall charger or USB cable. The cable will power up the phone and voila. I was in the download screen.
I also highly recommend the stock ROM from the thread
"[ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working)" In Vibrant > Vibrant Android Development
I tried another ROM found out on the internet and ended up with a shell that crashed and restarted every 60 seconds.
For those running into Odin stuck on a message about verifying the file system, I had no luck when the phone used COM3. I suggest moving your USB cable into different ports on your PC. Each new port will "install" a new instance of the phone using different COM ports. COM5 and COM6 both worked as I was reflashing the day away yesterday.
Hello everyone again!
I've been browsing the web today all day and tried to find a way to bring my phone back, but still nothing.
I have Samsung Galaxy S (Vibrant) on T-Mobile USA
Completely stock software.
Bought it around mid-September this year.
I've tried all methods with the vol+- and plugging it to my usb and such and such...
I've tried booting it from linux with AndroidSDK all it says is - device not recognized.
KIES doesn't work too.
ODIN doesn't as well, I've tried all methods with the keys combo and plugging the USB in different ways.
Phone is completely charged, when plugged to the outlet it doesn't show anything, also when pluggged to my laptop nothing comes up.
When trying to connect it with ODIN, nothing happens.
I believe I completely bricked it somehow installing the wrong ROM for it.
I've tried another battery from the same phone, but thats not the case too.
Before I did anything I backed up all my stuff to my SD card with the BACKITUP app on the Market. So I believe I would have everything on it, right?
Any help/ideas is appreciated!!!
If I can't do anything about it tonight, tomorrow I'm going to BestBuy where I bought it from, because I have a protection plan that would cover software and hardware failures. Now my question is, I have VERY personal information like , contacts, pictures and videos on my phone that I don't want anyone to get a hold of. Do you guys know if I exhange my phone tomorrow and when it gets sent out to Samsung will they have a way of getting ahold of that information?
Thank you all!!!
Take your battery out your phone
Plug in your usb to your pc
Plug the other end into your phone
Start up Odin
Hold down both volume buttons
Place your battery back in your phone
Then download mode should pop up, this worked for me when i bricked my Vibrant. I called this the resurrection technique, good luck!
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It sounds like you did everything possible to try and revive it.....personally it sounds like it's toast. (Happened to me not to long ago)
Samsung or tmobile, I believe all they do is a manual data wipe if they cannot turn the device on. Should clear everything in the data portion at least. Not sure about internal SD card though.
I tried to upgrade to froyo using the odin method from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853950. After everything was successfully done my phone shut off and now it won't turn on. I don't get a battery charge screen or anything. The phone's just blank.....
First, Get the Shipping rom (pit and tar files) so you can ODIN back to stock
Be sure you have the newest version of ODIN
Then remove the battery, plug the USB to the PC.
Now put the battery back.
Press both vol keys (up and down) and hold.
That should get you in Download Mode.
If it does not work, take battery out, unmplug USB.
Put battery back and try again to go into download mode.
Now you put the wrong version of froyo, if your keys maps are changed you may be screwed
If so, good luck! You are gonna need a lot of research to see if you can save it
i think i'm screwed.....nothing is working
If anyone else could help me with this, it would be great. I'm in between a rock and a wall right now with my phone.
you flashed the wrong rom. You didn't know that, did you?
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you flashed the wrong rom. You didn't know that, did you?
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No I didn't know that sadly. Is there anyway I can save my phone?
Hehehehe...I bricked mine yesterday. I disabled voodoo via Voodoo Toggle and waited for Linda to convert. I loaded up Odin and put in my pit & tar for JFD, which I always use, and hit start. I was on Nero v3 going to flash Nero v4 when it came out. I got a Fail part of the way through. The phone won't power on at all.....A popup says Windows can't recognize the device plugged into usb...
I think people are confusing things here and there...if your phone won't power on at all, you can't get help...you can't get into download mode to odin or recover it.
Like mine, for instance, there is no amount of times taking the battery out or doing this or that is gonna fix it..We need to read the post before we try to offer help...IF IT WON'T POWER ON how can people post ways to ODIN or RECOVER...
I'm just sayin....
jmcghee1973 said:
Hehehehe...I bricked mine yesterday. I disabled voodoo via Voodoo Toggle and waited for Linda to convert. I loaded up Odin and put in my pit & tar for JFD, which I always use, and hit start. I was on Nero v3 going to flash Nero v4 when it came out. I got a Fail part of the way through. The phone won't power on at all.....A popup says Windows can't recognize the device plugged into usb...
I think people are confusing things here and there...if your phone won't power on at all, you can't get help...you can't get into download mode to odin or recover it.
Like mine, for instance, there is no amount of times taking the battery out or doing this or that is gonna fix it..We need to read the post before we try to offer help...IF IT WON'T POWER ON how can people post ways to ODIN or RECOVER...
I'm just sayin....
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Well right now I'm simply trying to get the phone to turn on which it won't, I was not asking for help to odin or recover. I was trying to ask if anyone else had this problem and if my phone is totally killed or if there's a possibility that i can save it. But thanks for your 2 cents.
Me too
I had ordered Samsung Vibrant Unlocked from T-Mobile USA around a month back. I am well past the 30 day replacement now.
I Rooted it updated to Axura 2.2.5.9
After all the procedure got completed, I rebooted the phone and now it just won't start at all.
My piece is Hardware Locked wherein I can't get into the Recovery Mode, but can get into the Download Mode. But I am not even able to get into the Download mode now.
It just won't freaking turn on.
If I send it over for repair, as the phone is a rooted one, will I void the warranty ?
Please reply quickly. I am starting to freak out.
OK... I want to be the first to eat my words here!!!!!
I tried one last time...just now
I took everything out and only held the volume keys. I plugged in the USB cable to the PC and then to the phone & put the battery in and BAM!!!!! it came on in Download mode
This way has NEVER worked for me without holding the power button. This phone was in all senses of the word "DEAD". I figured I would give it a try with just the volume keys.
jmcghee1973 said:
OK... I want to be the first to eat my words here!!!!!
I tried one last time...just now
I took everything out and only held the volume keys. I plugged in the USB cable to the PC and then to the phone & put the battery in and BAM!!!!! it came on in Download mode
This way has NEVER worked for me without holding the power button. This phone was in all senses of the word "DEAD". I figured I would give it a try with just the volume keys.
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lol you must be very happy after that, good to great that.
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jmcghee1973 said:
OK... I want to be the first to eat my words here!!!!!
I tried one last time...just now
I took everything out and only held the volume keys. I plugged in the USB cable to the PC and then to the phone & put the battery in and BAM!!!!! it came on in Download mode
This way has NEVER worked for me without holding the power button. This phone was in all senses of the word "DEAD". I figured I would give it a try with just the volume keys.
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I got the same issue and this isn't working for me.
are there any other ideas?
it is completely dead. I am using a new battery and a known good usb cable to the computer.
I have tried holding all three buttons...just the vol up and down...vol up and power...etc... and nothing.
I even created that little JTAG thingy that I found on YouTube...that did nothing also
Different Situation
I have a similar problem with my Vibrant.
I reset my battery stats and also disabled VooDoo lagfix, and after i tried to reboot the phone, it froze on the vibrant screen.
I tried using soome of the methods that you guys posted before me, but then after i turn it on it shows an icon that there is a connection problem between the phone and PC.
I CAN turn on the phone, is there a way to just like reset everything? and if so how?
Thanks!
IClassStriker said:
I have a similar problem with my Vibrant.
I reset my battery stats and also disabled VooDoo lagfix, and after i tried to reboot the phone, it froze on the vibrant screen.
I tried using soome of the methods that you guys posted before me, but then after i turn it on it shows an icon that there is a connection problem between the phone and PC.
I CAN turn on the phone, is there a way to just like reset everything? and if so how?
Thanks!
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If your phone powers on at all, you should be able to get into DL mode. Follow the instructions on how to revert to stock via ODIN.
In reply to the OP, if you tried the download mode method:
connect phone to usb
pull out battery
hold both volume sticks
put in batttery
and the phone still does not turn on even after multiple tries , well you're a bit screwed. But, Samsung cannot detect if the phone has been rooted if it cannot even turn on. Just tell them the Kies Mini update bricked the phone.
omg leave ur phone on charger for 10 min, pull battery out when hooked up to charger put battery back in , let sit for few min pull battery out hook up phone to computer hold vol up vol down pop battery in , helped ? np this has been answered gazilion times in other threads
btw it takes few try this way to get it back up running so dont stop on first , hey .
If you have the phone!pc problem..connect to odin & see if your showing a COM port .... just flash pit & tar if you do. Without download mode
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my phone shut off and now it won't turn on. I don't get a battery charge screen or anything. The phone's just blank.....
If you have the phone!pc problem..connect to odin & see if your showing a COM port .... just flash pit & tar if you do. Without download mode
yes u do that it makes sense lol
gmoney007 said:
I got the same issue and this isn't working for me.
are there any other ideas?
it is completely dead. I am using a new battery and a known good usb cable to the computer.
I have tried holding all three buttons...just the vol up and down...vol up and power...etc... and nothing.
I even created that little JTAG thingy that I found on YouTube...that did nothing also
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You're talking about a DIY Jig. A JTAG is completely different. They cost $150-300. You can pay to have a local repair shop jtag it for around $50 or send it to Samsung to repair/replace. I'm still trying to find out how much Samsung would charge for the repair if it's deemed out of warranty.
If your phone refuses to turn on no matter what you do and it gets warm or hot if you leave the battery in it, read on:
I hope my suggestion is not too late. I was in the situation before. I tried everything everyone said here and somewhere else. None of them works.
The reason that those methods don't work because you cannot get to download or recovery mode or even the pc-phone screen since your phone won't turn on. The reason that your phone doesn't turn on because the bootloader has been messed up. A jig will work only if your phone can be turned on somehow.
Three possible solutions:
1. Repair or replace it with T-mobile, or
2. Get someone to repair it with a riff box or other similar tool, or
3. Get the box and fix it yourself (not recommended if you are not familiar with electronic stuff.)
This is the link for the same problem you have; this guy bought the box and has his phone fixed himself. If you live in US, he may do it for you if you have no place to go. It does hurt to ask.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974862&page=6
Hello,
Don't know if this has been asked but I have been looking for it for a while. Cant seem to fine a solution.
I flashed my phone wrong with hemdall now my phone wont turn on. Screen completely black i reboot pulled out the battery everything I can think of can you give me a suggestion. I was thinking about buying a USB Jig.
I'm in the same boat and I bought the Jig. However I think Josh just acts as a middle man on this one and shipping is actually from overseas. But you can find it here. http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/ I suggest a little extra shipping cost.
However the other suggestion if that is not working (I think I killed my phone) is to have Josh do a Jtag on the phone. You can find that at http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-jtag-brick-repair/
Can you get into download mode? Remove battery, plug usb, press up+down vol buttons and insert battery.
hey i having same problem but i could see the vibrant samsung screen but my phone won't pass that and like you say about the usb cable and then plugging the battery i can do that as well but how can i get my phone back and running another rom!!!
Monster809 said:
hey i having same problem but i could see the vibrant samsung screen but my phone won't pass that and like you say about the usb cable and then plugging the battery i can do that as well but how can i get my phone back and running another rom!!!
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If you can see the Vibrant Samsung screen just use Odin to flash back to stock
Kabiigon said:
Hello,
Don't know if this has been asked but I have been looking for it for a while. Cant seem to fine a solution.
I flashed my phone wrong with heimdall now my phone wont turn on. Screen completely black i reboot pulled out the battery everything I can think of can you give me a suggestion. I was thinking about buying a USB Jig.
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The real solution here i doing a JTAG to your phone or make the Unbrickable MOD (It's very dangerous, a person with Welding and electronic skills must do this).
Another thing you can do is buy a broken Screen phone from Ebay (it more cheaply) and change the motherboard!!
My suggestion would be to continue to try to get into Download mode on the phone. My phone was DEAD no life at all plugged into the wall or PC. I kept trying to get it into download mode and magically after hours of failures, ODIN recognized the device! The phone was still DEAD no life at all on the screen but ODIN had recognized that my device WAS indeed connected. So I continued to flash back to stock and as always with a little patience ODIN was there to save me. The phone automatically rebooted after ODIN was done and BOOM! Good2Go
Goodluck!
^^I'm gonna try that and hopefully with some patience it will work. Otherwise I'm also gonna be ordering a jig, they're not that expensive. My problem is the same as the OP's. My vibrant will just not give any signs of life. I was trying to odin to stock from one cosmics ics RC3.1. Wanted to start on a fresh install for AOKP build 25. But then odin decided to fail on modem.bin. then it just hung and phone turned off, haven't been able to turn it on since. I've spent the last two hours trying to put in different combinations and keys and usb attachments to bring any hints of life, but so far nothing. Bootloader update was not checked on odin so I'm pretty confident that its not due to bootloader mismatch but someone correct me if I'm wrong. Sending it back to samsung or tmobile is very far of an option since I've modified the phone to add FFC. If anyone has any advice or hints it would be greatly appreciated. I'm kind of hating myself and flashing now since I was very happy with the rom that I had and how everything was setup. I just wanted to try something new for fun and this went and blew everything up.
^^I literally held down the buttons > plugged in the cord > put in the battery > and counted in my head the amount of seconds it took the phone to "normally" boot to where I would "normally" let go of the power button to get into Download mode, lol I know it sounds ridiculous but that's how I did it. It helped that I had my sisters working Vibrant right there, I used her phone to get into download mode and timed the process and used that as a baseline for the timing of trying to get the "DEAD" Vibrant into download mode.
If all else fails a JTAG as mentioned should fix your problem fosho!
Goodluck!
Ye I fixed it. One day I did what I had been doing the whole time and it just decided to work. Got into download mode then went back to stock. Our phone is so freaking weird yet I love the damn thing. It really is unbrickable. To anyone in this situation just never give up.
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I have no idea what went wrong or where. One day a few apps starting force closing. Then I got weird unlocking problems. Now google play crashed consistently on any search, as well as ****ing settings. I ****ing hate this phone.
-Rooted and unlocked via freegee.
-Installed clockwork over adb(everything was fine at this point)
-Flashed a few different ROMS
-Flashd beanstalk, and then the problems started.
-Can't get ****ing adb to connect no matter what so I can't flash a new recovery
-Considering beating in my phone with a bat.
Anyone have any suggestions for getting recovery working again? Clockworks app doesn't work, similar to what this fellow went through (and apparently solved) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258671&highlight=can+t+boot+recovery
Haven't tried LGNPST because I have no idea what the acronym stands for and no one says what it is.
Refer to tinybin thread in android development
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drwario said:
Refer to tinybin thread in android development
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I've exhausted everything I could find through the teenybin thread. LGNPST and teenybin gave me back fastboot, but I still have no recovery.
Oh yeah, and a sweet bonus: My phone refuses to go past the boot screen when booting and adb on both my desktops refuses to recognize my device! Anyone want a free phone before I smash it to bits against my face?
Update: For all you poor fools who are following the same path, heres what happened.
Left it plugged in all night and it continued to flash red for a while, and then show a full charge screen, then turn off. Repeated this throughout the whole night.
Come morning I perform a hard battery pull via this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45849420#post45849420
I wait a minute with the motherboard connector disengaged. Hold power button for 10 seconds. Plug back in, absolutely no change in my situation. I tried again for about 5 minutes, ditto.
So in conclusion, I broke my phone because I installed a custom rom and LG didn't want me to. I hope whatever team was in charge of developing this phone burns in hell like they so sweetly deserve.
**** you LG. ****. YOU. I want my ****ING money back. You make **** PRODUCTS.
Dude you are aware it's YOUR fault if any thing bad happens when you are playing around with a rooted phone. U installed it and its your own bad....
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steffenbakke said:
Dude you are aware it's YOUR fault if any thing bad happens when you are playing around with a rooted phone. U installed it and its your own bad....
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Yeah its my fault for installing a custom ROM. You wouldnt be saying this if a desktop or laptop magically stopped working after reinstalling windows or linux. If those were as randomly, stupidly risky, people would be ****ing in arms at microsoft, as they rightfully should be at carriers. Whatever man.
If you can't access recovery or the phone will not boot then adb won't work. You said that you do have the ability to use fastboot though. Have you tried flash twrp from fastboot?
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Why you install recovery over adb? I mean, when you unlock with freegee it installs the recovery you want (cwm or twrp), so no need for adb.
Have you tried to KDZ a stock rom and do a hard reset?
putsometrebleinit said:
If you can't access recovery or the phone will not boot then adb won't work. You said that you do have the ability to use fastboot though. Have you tried flash twrp from fastboot?
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I tried LGNPSTING a lot of things and now the battery is ****ed. Hard battery disconnect did nothing. It'll flash its light and maybe show the lg logo when plugged in.. but other than that its frustratingly dead.
Just sell the ****ng phone man...
You got frustrated due to a lack of patience. You can flash recoveries via fastboot. If you actually searched well you would have seen that.
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DeathmonkeyGTX said:
You got frustrated due to a lack of patience. You can flash recoveries via fastboot. If you actually searched well you would have seen that.
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Doesnt work, and never did. The ****ing phone drivers are so ****ty and proprietary, no computer I used would recognize my phone. I actually managed to flash the stock AT&T rom to my phone through LGNPST, along with a recovery, or so LGNPST said, but of course another problem had to come up. Fantastic ****ing phone here.
swashy said:
Doesnt work, and never did. The ****ing phone drivers are so ****ty and proprietary, no computer I used would recognize my phone. I actually managed to flash the stock AT&T rom to my phone through LGNPST, along with a recovery, or so LGNPST said, but of course another problem had to come up. Fantastic ****ing phone here.
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Then it sounds likely that you're doing something wrong, have an antivirus conflict, or genuinely do not have access to one well-maintained windows machine.
swashy said:
I tried LGNPSTING a lot of things and now the battery is ****ed. Hard battery disconnect did nothing. It'll flash its light and maybe show the lg logo when plugged in.. but other than that its frustratingly dead.
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You can melt the software side of these phones so badly and still recover with the Qualcomm tools after the fact, it's not even funny how bad things can go before no return. Flashing a rom didn't do this, period. I want to believe you just suffered from a fluke hardware failure. Even more so it sounds like the USB connector went ape and continued wigging out from there.
The universal drivers also work perfectly. Considering in every way this is the nexus 4 with an SD card slot and a better LTE amplifier, everything you're ranting about is invalid.
The phone is a sanctioned, flash to hell and back model. You need to do some soul searching and find out where YOU went wrong. Or at least get an el cheapo multimeter out and start checking continuity. If it turns out you broke the charging connector or the battery connector off of the board you can STILL be saved. Just put in some effort and try to find the root cause. Screaming and cursing on a random corner of the internet isn't solving your problem
Making up crazed excuses isn't doing any service to you or the other forum users either. Especially the driver ranting. They work flawlessly. Hell even the generic Google provided SDK abd driver works.
If you figure anything out we're here to try and get you back to good.
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-edit- and leave the battery disconnected for awhile. The reason I suggest holding the power button while battery disconnected is in the hope that it will drain any remaining current out of the phone. There's no documentation to say it does or doesn't. So let the thing sit and be absolutely sure it's got a chance to reset. And check the battery voltage to confirm if it's dead or not. Since the contacts will be right there when it's disconnected...
That red light flashing / lg logo when plugged in is exactly where my phone and others was when needing a battery pull. It's fixed every phone I've heard of in that state. Try it again?
The same thing happened to me twice before. Both times I was able to recover my LG you get back into my recovery screen. What works for me is using Lgnpst back to stock jb. Next I flashed both teeny bins. Immediately after flashing the teeny bins, I open my LG up and pulled the battery. I waited about 10 minutes attach the battery back into the LG. Booted to the device and a factory reset my holding the power button in the volume down button. After the the device finished the reset I was good to go and my LG back to normal. This is what works for me give it a try... And good luck.
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Well, another free day off, guess I'll give it a go again.
The connection of the battery to the mobo is most definitely intact. Pulled the plug to the mobo for ten minutes, plugged back in.
It still just steadily flashes red whenever I charge it. Nothing.
I'll try holding the power button while its disconnected, but I don't have a multimeter to check voltage.
Edit: Something changed. After sitting with the battery disconnected and a rubber band around the power button for 20 minutes, it showed a battery with a charge icon, then nothing. Havent had a screen for awhile. Pressing the power button, nothing. Holding it for awhile gets the full-charge battery, and if I keep holding it, the google symbol, and then nothing. I guess I'll try pulled the battery for 20 minutes again, Maybe it didn't fully discharge?
Edit 2: I've been informed that after a hundred battery pulls, the battery probably has something physically wrong with it. ****ing phenomenal goddamned phone here!! Why do I pay tech companies money for **** again?
swashy said:
Well, another free day off, guess I'll give it a go again.
The connection of the battery to the mobo is most definitely intact. Pulled the plug to the mobo for ten minutes, plugged back in.
It still just steadily flashes red whenever I charge it. Nothing.
I'll try holding the power button while its disconnected, but I don't have a multimeter to check voltage.
Edit: Something changed. After sitting with the battery disconnected and a rubber band around the power button for 20 minutes, it showed a battery with a charge icon, then nothing. Havent had a screen for awhile. Pressing the power button, nothing. Holding it for awhile gets the full-charge battery, and if I keep holding it, the google symbol, and then nothing. I guess I'll try pulled the battery for 20 minutes again, Maybe it didn't fully discharge?
Edit 2: I've been informed that after a hundred battery pulls, the battery probably has something physically wrong with it. ****ing phenomenal goddamned phone here!! Why do I pay tech companies money for **** again?
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go to a service, ask them if it can be repaired, if they say yes go home and wait for an idea
if they say no dont lose the hope
its a great phone, and as you see you are the only one with this problem
and with that angriness you will do nothing, remember you and only you are the responsable for any damage your phone suffers, not the developer of that rom