hey everyone,
just hard-bricked my phone
stupid me totally forgot that my battery was low while flashing with rsd.. phone turned off..
when plugged in to wall charger without battery, i get:
"failed to boot 0x1000
Entering NVFLASH RECOVERY MODE
Battery too low to flash"
When turned on while NOT plugged in.. the phone says the failed to boot 0x1000
entering nvflash recovery mode, but shuts off immediately after stating that it is entering nvflash recovery
SO, since it seems like it WANTS to load into nvflash.. but cant because it seems like the battery is dying.. if i can find a way to charge the battery.. is it possible to fix the phone?
I think you need a dev cable
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081743
totally forgot about that post.
looks like im taking a trip to walmart (only place open at 2am EST) for a soldering iron.
this is an amazingly detailed guide
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
i'll post up how this monstrosity turns out
I hard bricked my phone jacking around today and thought I was screwed. Turns out the local reps at my particular AT&T store are complete idiots and exchanged my hard bricked phone for a brand new phone for nothing. Took 10 minutes and I was out of there. All I had to say literally was "my phone wont turn on". Try it.
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already did it!
unfortunately, the store i went to.. the manager wasnt a TOTAL idiot, and actually plugged it in and saw the whole failed to boot screen.
he said he unlocks his phones and does all kind of crazy stuff to them, so he can sympathize for me. we got to talking about all this stuff and in the end, he gave me a brand new atrix for $100 with screen protectors and a little case haha
Were you guys in your 30 day window? Or att was just cool about it.
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So is there a fix I'm in the same situation battery was too low while flash no I'm getting fail to boot 0x1000 entering nvflash recovery mode battery is too low to flash
yokozuna82 said:
So is there a fix I'm in the same situation battery was too low while flash no I'm getting fail to boot 0x1000 entering nvflash recovery mode battery is too low to flash
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No fix. Although maybe if you try a bunch of different combinations of button pressings as you turn on the phone (holding volume down, power, holding volume up, power, holding both, power....etc) who knows... if you can magically get into fastboot then you may have a shot...
Try to charge your battery on another ATRIX! And try to flash again if RSD mode is enabled!
Hey there
Didnt get this scary hard boot prob, but wanted to know something-
If i have a spare battery with me, fully charged and all, will the atrix go into RSD flash mode successfully? or into fastboot?
coz that can be a solution for you guys, just by some table charger or a spare battery and it will do the trick...
hahaha,.. i did it two times when i was using my htc touch diamond,.. )
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I think you need a dev cable
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081743
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what can I do using this cable ???
I am in the same situation and don't know how to fix it .... and I can't return it to AT&T because I am from Egypt ... please help me fix it.
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so I was using odin to revert back to stock and repartition, dont ask why i had the back case off but i did, the battery fell out off the contacts and the stupid thing was stuck in download mode and would not do anything when i reloaded odin or replugged usb... i now get a screen showing a phone --- ! ---- computer image.... im pretty sure thats a true brick but if anyone has any ideas, ive tried everything to get into download mode again but to no avail... when i plug the phone in the usb it automatically boots to this image.
is it a true brick or is there anything i can do... i have sam drivers installed and adb... i know im dumb and my phone is probably bricked.... if i can im going to try to take it to tmobile tomorrow.... anyone have any ideas to fix this or is it a true brick like im thinking? or anything I can say to tmobile other than "I dont know what happened" ???
guess i learned that no matter how many times you flash stupid mistakes can still be made
edit: i no longer get the battery charge screen at all by the way... it just boots up to that no matter what i try.
Try plugging it into the computer. Hold down all the buttons, volume up and down and power button. Let go of the power button as soon as it turns on, but continue to hold the volume buttons. That should do it.
If your phone powers on regardless of what it shows its salvageable, if your able to do anything whatsoever with the phone than its salvageable. I did however true brick mine. It messed up in the middle of odin and after that the phone did nothing, no boot at all, no power, nothing. Power button did nothing, it was 100% bricked.
Well I must have tried 100 times last night and 20 more this morning but it finally glitched into download mode!! Woot
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Its a soft brick. There is only one way to hard brick vibrant as of now (well with software).
I believe it was to flash JP2 and some version of Froyo that was floating around and then reflash to stock. Just memory though details could be off.
I tried to find the answer without posting a new thread. I honestly did. But I'm stuck and it's 6am and I thought I'd ask while I'm still semi-literate.
I soft bricked the **** out of my atrix. I was flashing an sbf to it using rsdlite. All was going smoothly BUT I am a jackass and my phone battery was like... 20% so it died halfway through and now, all I get is:
SVF: 105:1:2
Failed to boot 0x1000
NO OS Detected, Going to RSD mode,
a menu of options,
etc.
Now I made a factory dev cable by connecting the 5v to pin 4. So I can get this far without the stupid battery message. My problem is that I can't do anything else?! While before (when it was working) it came up in RSDlite when it was in RSD, now it doesn't
I reinstalled drivers and RSDlite, rebooted, tried different computers and tried differed USB ports...
I'm not sure what the problem is? I just cant get my computer to see it, even though it turns on and gives me the menu as soon as I plug it in. If I press the up volume key when I plug it in I get
SCF:105:1:2
Failed to boot 0x1000
PwrReason: Factory_Cable
PwrReason: Power_Cut
Starting Fastboot protocol support.
That's all I've got. Please guys, I really need my phone and I need to find a way to get that sbf on there!
Thanks
Edit: Just like to add that I'm running Windows 7, 32 bit with the latest drivers and rsd lite 5.3.1
Is there any chance the second time you are starting RSD you haven't opened the application using administrative privileges?
I'm assuming he knows you can't flash with a certain battery percentage. You've tried charging it and trying again right?
Thanks for the replies guys,
Admin privileges isn't the problem I'm sure of that.
I ran around the last few days trying to find somewhere to charge the battery (motorola phones are pretty much nonexistent in Australia) and try again, I just assumed the factory/dev cable would circumvent that problem. Anyway I had no luck so I bought a standalone charger off ebay which should come on monday.
I'll try when I get the battery charged and post the results in case anyone has a similar problem.
Fingers crossed!
Mine did that too cause I did the same thing and didn't fully charge my battery. Everything worked out when I let it charge for a little while.
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Im curious my ATRIX came with gingerbread 4.5.91 if I messed something up how would I return it to stock what sbf should I use?
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How did you let it charge? Just plug it in and leave it at that bootup menu where it tries to go into RSD?
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How did you let it charge? Just plug it in and leave it at that bootup menu where it tries to go into RSD?
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you can pull out the battery and plug it into a wall charger, and it should boot into a charging mode.
if that doesn't work, you could also rip apart an old USB cable and connect the positive and negative wires to the positive and negative contacts of the battery while it's plugged into the phone - this will force a current into the battery and charge it up. you can look for a video on youtube that shows you how to do it if you just search 'charge any phone without a charger'
Can't you just do a factory reset?
In any case this should help you without having to flash any sbfs
http://www.technipages.com/2-ways-to-factory-hard-reset-motorola-atrix.html
If not then the sbf should be here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
If you're on AT&T in the US I think you'd need the first one.
SVF:105.1:2
Failed to boot 0X1000
then phone will go blank after 1 second forcing to detach battery and reinsert what can be done about this?
sillyshyme said:
SVF:105.1:2
Failed to boot 0X1000
then phone will go blank after 1 second forcing to detach battery and reinsert what can be done about this?
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Save for another phone.
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you can try to flash service rom
ovitz said:
you can try to flash service rom
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how do I do that my phone won't even stay powered on once I get the message failed to boot it shuts off.
The same thing happened to me. The problem is, is that the phone cannot charge while in bootloader mode. To me, it sounds like it has enough power to just display that screen, then it powers down.
What I did is cut the micro USB end off of one of my charge cables, then I attached the positive and negative wire ends, to the positive and negative terminals on the battery. This allowed the phone to stay powered on.
After that I flashed back to stock. Everything went smooth after that.
Hope this helps.
I contacted motorola and my phone still in warranty so I am sending it in what will moto do?
yes unlocked I know I read the warning about unlocking but it may be worth it just to see. I like my iphone better.
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Well I assume that moto will charge you with repairs , and may return it to you with it upgraded to a state you cant unlock (speculation on that part). My suggestion is my post above Either borrow someone elses battery (from atrix or droidx) or make the dev cable to boot and recover from you could also buy a break out board to make it easier if need be
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im confused why dose chaining battens make a difference in booting? Also if I cut the cable won't it not work anymore?
can you do a video saying how you did it or with images...
Doesn't unclocking your bootloader/rooting it void your warranty ?
I was downgrading from 4.0.4 to 2.3.5 and while flashing with RSDlite the battery suddely went down and it showed failure.
Since then I am not able to turn my phone on, nor even in the menu which shows the option of AP Fastboot.
When I plugin into the computer, it shows a white LED and nothing else. What should I do?
rahulwadhwani said:
I was downgrading from 4.0.4 to 2.3.5 and while flashing with RSDlite the battery suddely went down and it showed failure.
Since then I am not able to turn my phone on, nor even in the menu which shows the option of AP Fastboot.
When I plugin into the computer, it shows a white LED and nothing else. What should I do?
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I have been seeing many threads here. One of them suggested to charge in AP fastboot mode using the buttons but that didn't work for me. I am yet to try the cable method.
Is there any other way out?
Guys, I cannot understand why users are trying to flash with low battery again and again. The problem is already known well, am I right?
So, put your device on the charger, NOT TO THE PC. Wait a while and check if it's charging. Maybe you are able to put the device into the fastboot mode only for a short moment, there you can shut it down pressing the power button shortly. The you should be able to charge it normally. If not, try a factory cable. AND at least: READ THE FORUMS!!!
Edit: And do NOT charge it with your PC! It will only charge with you charger.
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Guys, I cannot understand why users are trying to flash with low battery again and again. The problem is already known well, am I right?
So, put your device on the charger, NOT TO THE PC. Wait a while and check if it's charging. Maybe you are able to put the device into the fastboot mode only for a short moment, there you can shut it down pressing the power button shortly. The you should be able to charge it normally. If not, try a factory cable. AND at least: READ THE FORUMS!!!
Edit: And do NOT charge it with your PC! It will only charge with you charger.
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My phone automatically boots in the fastboot mode and it shows battery low. I am not able to charge it.
I have been reading the forums and all the stuff I found is not working, that's why I made this new thread.
I think from fb mode press vol down and power.This should turn off and you may be able to charge. If not either get a factory lead made or make on yourself
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I think from fb mode press vol down and power.This should turn off and you may be able to charge. If not either get a factory lead made or make on yourself
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it is not charging, is there any other way other than getting a factory lead or making one?
rahulwadhwani said:
it is not charging, is there any other way other than getting a factory lead or making one?
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doubt it, ive been trying endless methods to try make it work as waiting for factory cable from ebay is gonna be like 20-25working days, not counting the despatch of the item after 3 business days of payment being received. god that is soooooo long 4 me!! arghhhh
You'll need a factory cable to flash a new rom in order to charge ur razr. Do a factory cable forum search.
Don't be scared by the name, it's just a modified cable you do by yourself.
Good luck
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I screwed something up trying to flash. I get back up sometimes but
Now my phone no longer charges. It also shows signal but cant
Do anything unless on wifi. I cant flash anything else to this phone.
I think it still charging in fastboot mode but it takes longer time. Try to charge it (in fastboot mode) for 3-4 hours. It works for me.
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it is not charging, is there any other way other than getting a factory lead or making one?
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No I think it is looking like going on e bay or getting one made locally either by yourself or electronics shop
I have given my phone in a Motorola Service Centre. I will get it back next week, so now I just have to wait!
rahulwadhwani said:
I was downgrading from 4.0.4 to 2.3.5 and while flashing with RSDlite the battery suddely went down and it showed failure.
Since then I am not able to turn my phone on, nor even in the menu which shows the option of AP Fastboot.
When I plugin into the computer, it shows a white LED and nothing else. What should I do?
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You just buy the factory cable.it can solved the issue. just PM me.
Hello, I've been using my old x2 as my PDA/MP3 player. I also have put custom ROM on it because... It's fun!!
What's not fun is my locked up phone, here's what occurred... I tried to sbf my phone and received an error flashing (had all correct Motorola drivers/rsd lite. So as it failed and never even cleared out my phone I decided to use my iso boot disk instead. The disk came up, ran normal, said flashing was complete..... nightmare began....
Now I cannot boot into recovery New/old. I can't boot the phone. I can't do anything. The phone starts, I get the Motorola dual core screen (can't hold volume keys to get to rsd/fastboot/etc. The phone will get to the point of booting but will come up with screen which says...
"Failed to boot number 4"
"Starting rsd....."
Then when I go into try anything rsd (iso disk or rsd lite) the phone will either shut off right away and loop sometimes to same screen. Or it will come back when plugged into pc saying battery (which is fully charged) is to low to flash....
I'm going crazy...
Are there any other restore tactics?
I can't erase battery stats because I have no recovery... I've always followed instructions and flash roms for nearly every manufacturer of phones over the years. I am stumped....
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Hello, I've been using my old x2 as my PDA/MP3 player. I also have put custom ROM on it because... It's fun!!
What's not fun is my locked up phone, here's what occurred... I tried to sbf my phone and received an error flashing (had all correct Motorola drivers/rsd lite. So as it failed and never even cleared out my phone I decided to use my iso boot disk instead. The disk came up, ran normal, said flashing was complete..... nightmare began....
Now I cannot boot into recovery New/old. I can't boot the phone. I can't do anything. The phone starts, I get the Motorola dual core screen (can't hold volume keys to get to rsd/fastboot/etc. The phone will get to the point of booting but will come up with screen which says...
"Failed to boot number 4"
"Starting rsd....."
Then when I go into try anything rsd (iso disk or rsd lite) the phone will either shut off right away and loop sometimes to same screen. Or it will come back when plugged into pc saying battery (which is fully charged) is to low to flash....
I'm going crazy...
Are there any other restore tactics?
I can't erase battery stats because I have no recovery... I've always followed instructions and flash roms for nearly every manufacturer of phones over the years. I am stumped....
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First, make sure the battery is charged up. You can't RSD without at least 20% battery. Simply plug it in and let it charge, then try again after about an hour.
Also, make sure you are using the correct SBF file. It could've been a bad download, or worse you flashed one for another phone.
I've had nothing but trouble RSDLite and personally only use sbf_flash. So using the iso boot disk is recommended by me.
Yes, I agree that rsd lite will never again be the way I go. The disk had been much handier. Only problem is that I was out of disks, I was also without my CD in the office. I have done plenty of rsd reboot/reflash. Didn't expect this which is why I then went, got my CD, tried again.
Strange thing is the disk is what brought the issue I have at hand to light. So...
I really appreciate the insight for future occurrence avoidance.
How would you suggest fixing problem at hand?
The battery is full charge... It's that 2.3.5 battery glitch still coming back to light. The battery should be full. Now I end up in that strange loop, I don't even know if my battery is now charging or not...
Ugh... I really wish I could figure out exactly where I went wrong as well.
Thanks again for the response!
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Disention said:
Yes, I agree that rsd lite will never again be the way I go. The disk had been much handier. Only problem is that I was out of disks, I was also without my CD in the office. I have done plenty of rsd reboot/reflash. Didn't expect this which is why I then went, got my CD, tried again.
Strange thing is the disk is what brought the issue I have at hand to light. So...
I really appreciate the insight for future occurrence avoidance.
How would you suggest fixing problem at hand?
The battery is full charge... It's that 2.3.5 battery glitch still coming back to light. The battery should be full. Now I end up in that strange loop, I don't even know if my battery is now charging or not...
Ugh... I really wish I could figure out exactly where I went wrong as well.
Thanks again for the response!
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So you still only have access to RSD on the phone? Or did it accept the SBF? I'm thinking that you flashed another phone's sbf file.
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Yes, if you could re-read my first post for sake of my key stroke would be great. The phone does not boot I'll try and snap a quick pic with other phone and show what happens. This is only thing which happens in a complete loop... can't get into new or old restore/bootstrap. Can't get it to load any of the basic rsd menu options. If I plug into pc it tells me battery is not charged enough. Or just shuts down with disk or boot CD. It's insane!
It's most definitely the RIGHT folder. All of my phone have their own nearly organized files. None of them flash the same way. Droid X2, HTC EVO 4G, Galaxy Nexus..... Yeah, I know the files ok but good thought!
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Have you tried to turn the phone off, put it directly into RSD mode then run RSD program with the correct SBF file?
That's the problem, I never can "put" it in to rsd mode. I start the phone simply by plugging it in it automatically boot into that loop. Nothing I've found will load such as restore, boot loader, etc.
When it says it's going into rsd, it either turns itself off when in that phase and I start rsd. Or it will give me an error stating battery is not charged enough (it's got a full charge, already tested with multimeter)
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If you got a spare charger around can jerry rig it. If you know what im talking about. If that don't work with the battery issue then if your under contract I'd go get a replacement. Do it by phone as they will not check your device once you send it back.
I've got plenty of spare charger...
What do you mean "Jerry rig" though?
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Cut the end off that plugs into your phone, then use the ground and hot wire inside the power cord. Put them on the correct ends of the battery without touching the others, can tape them to it then put the battery back in the phone making sure the wires don't move or touch anything else. Then have the one with wires on your battery plugged into the wall, the usb from your phone to your computer then turn RSD on your phone, then try to SBF it. If you still get that arrow do the other option and call and get a replacement. Ive saved a many of phones doing the jerry rigging of the charge. But if it works and you can SBF then when the steps are complete undo the wires and walla.
I like it!
Let me get some stuff together and put this to the test!
I'll post my results!
Thanks!
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This is the EXACT thing that happened to me about to weeks ago when trying to SBF back to 2.3.4, a task that I've done many times.
I got the "failed to boot" etc screen that you have. Basically I kept trying to SBF (it still wasn't working) and eventually I got the "battery too low to flash" screen.
Since the battery wasn't actually charging at all because of this weird boot screen, I had to drive down to my local RadioShack where they had some device that would charge ANY battery. It was sweet, AND they let me use it for free at their store. So they popped my X2 battery in and I went to the nearest bookstore to get some work done. Came back two hours later and my battery was charged.
But that's all besides the point. Basically what I did to fix it was I kept trying to SBF and eventually it worked. I downloaded another 2.3.4 sbf file to make sure (even though I've used the same file many times) and I even downloaded a 2.3.5 sbf file and began "alternating" between the three in rsd lite, hoping that one of them would "catch". Eventually I believe my original 2.3.4 file caught and my droid was back to normal.
Sorry for your troubles! This problem sucked and it freaked me out a lot when it happened. But I think you'll be fine. Don't worry too much about it like I did!
Disention said:
Then when I go into try anything rsd (iso disk or rsd lite) the phone will either shut off right away and loop sometimes to same screen. Or it will come back when plugged into pc saying battery (which is fully charged) is to low to flash.
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I have had problems with my DroidX2 not staying charged while being plugged-in to the a usb port on the computer ... I had to use a usb wall-wart for consistent chargeing.
So, if your battery is haveing trouble staying charged (or not) try connecting it to a usb wall-wart and let it charge for at least a couple (~2) hours.
Also, how old is the battery? (I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with you issue, but it could affect chargeing and battery-life)
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That's the problem, I never can "put" it in to rsd mode. I start the phone simply by plugging it in it automatically boot into that loop. Nothing I've found will load such as restore, boot loader, etc.
When it says it's going into rsd, it either turns itself off when in that phase and I start rsd. Or it will give me an error stating battery is not charged enough (it's got a full charge, already tested with multimeter)
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The following steps can also be seen here -or- see the original sbf/rsd instructions (note: the sbf files are not available at this time)
key instructions at step #10:
With the X2 in a completely POWERED DOWN state, press and hold the volume up button on the top right hand side of the phone. While still holding the volume up press and hold the power button until the screen turns on. At the top of the screen you should see "Starting RSD protocol support" once this text appears you may release the volume up button.
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