So i just bricked my atrix and want to return it to At&t still got 1 year warranty. anyways phone was rooted before but before it bricked i flashed clean SBF so they will have no issues changing it right? also what should i tell them how it happend. tried to do a recovery or installed app and it bricked?
General rule is to act dumb and be vague. Say I just wanted one of those "double-core" fast phones, and when I installed plants vs zombies, it "stopped working."
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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...
Hello everyone,
I'm new to these forums and I joined so that one of you could help me with a severe problem that I'm facing.
I've got a Google Nexus One (Yes, I know it's old, but I'm a student with a low allowance, so you can't expect me to buy a really expensive phone).
It's two years old and I was getting tired of Gingerbread, so I decided to install ICS. I followed a guide here on this site, but skipped the Blackrose step so I kinda messed up.
My phone gets stuck on the "X" logo and doesn't move past it at all. I've even erased the SD card and all, but it's still stuck there. However, I can get to bootloader. Someone recommended that I download an old firmware rom and place it in the SD card and then install it via bootloader. However, when I go to 'restore' on bootloader, it takes me to 4ext, through which the rom does not install. I get some kind of error.
I don't need ICS anymore, I just want my phone to be working again, on Gingerbread as it always has. Please help me out with this issue?
Hi all,
A friend of mine has a bone stock S4 that he purchased a couple of months ago, and when he looked at his phone yesterday it had a message about "Unauthorized System Software" found on the device, and it has basically bricked the device. He's tried doing a factory reset on the device to no avail. He is not a techie at all, and has not attempted to root or ROM the device (he didn't even know what the terms meant when I asked if he had attempted to do anything). When he contacted Verizon they basically told him, "Sucks to be you, and oh, btw, your warranty is now void."
Needless to say this is ridiculous, so I was curious if anybody else had run into something similar or had any other ideas on how to try and get his phone back up and running without Verizon's BS.
Thanks!
manthas said:
Hi all,
A friend of mine has a bone stock S4 that he purchased a couple of months ago, and when he looked at his phone yesterday it had a message about "Unauthorized System Software" found on the device, and it has basically bricked the device. He's tried doing a factory reset on the device to no avail. He is not a techie at all, and has not attempted to root or ROM the device (he didn't even know what the terms meant when I asked if he had attempted to do anything). When he contacted Verizon they basically told him, "Sucks to be you, and oh, btw, your warranty is now void."
Needless to say this is ridiculous, so I was curious if anybody else had run into something similar or had any other ideas on how to try and get his phone back up and running without Verizon's BS.
Thanks!
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well if you still have the phone, try odin it to me7. maybe itll fix it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357235
manthas said:
Hi all,
A friend of mine has a bone stock S4 that he purchased a couple of months ago, and when he looked at his phone yesterday it had a message about "Unauthorized System Software" found on the device, and it has basically bricked the device. He's tried doing a factory reset on the device to no avail. He is not a techie at all, and has not attempted to root or ROM the device (he didn't even know what the terms meant when I asked if he had attempted to do anything). When he contacted Verizon they basically told him, "Sucks to be you, and oh, btw, your warranty is now void."
Needless to say this is ridiculous, so I was curious if anybody else had run into something similar or had any other ideas on how to try and get his phone back up and running without Verizon's BS.
Thanks!
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You could try kies or use the software update utility/repair utility that comes on the phone. Plug the phone into a computer and install the vzw utility. When it comes up select repair utility. It will put into download mode and flash the latest firmware. Used it several times it works great.
Yoshi and Eris,
Thank you both; I will pass these suggestions along! I appreciate the suggestions.
An interesting addition to this story, it appears the S4 in question has its bootloader unlocked. On the phone's bootup screen, it shows the familiar unlocked padlock icon, and a message that says "Custom". It almost sounds to me like a botched system update somehow got pushed to his device, but we're still in the dark about what caused it. He apparently did another factory reset and he's able to use the phone without the unauthorized system software message, but the whole situation is extremely bizarre.
Hello, I recently rooted my android phone, but it is not the first time. Due to my last incident with my rooted samsung galaxy S2, I was tweaking certain roms and it ended up getting bricked. I found out about a program called ODIN that can unbrick my phone, but I failed at that and ended up installing a different firmware lol, yet it was still stuck at the start up boot loop animation [IDIOT MOVE] and this time the computer could not detect my phone anymore, trust me I tried hundreds of methods from different computers to different usb ports and different versions of odin and gave up.
However I have a new phone and plan with verizon and ended up rooting the phone again. I did not tweak any roms or uninstalled pre-installed default apps YET. But this time I want to be prepared again if I ever come across my phone being bricked. I am being cautious. How can I have a stable backup of my phone, so if it ever gets bricked I can use odin to unbrick it. Do I have to use titanium backup for this approach or something else.
In case someone asks, it is called Verizon LG Lucid, Model Number VS870 4G, it is 4GLite version 4.1.2. Software verson: VS87011A.
Install a custom recovery such as clock work mod it has the best backup and can bring your phone back from a soft brick :thumbup:
Hit thanks if I helped
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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