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The JIG is ONLY useful if its a softbrick or what?
will the JIG get me out of a hardbrick?
its only useful to get you to Download mode.
Yes, i understand that.
I'm asking a whole different question; Does the JIG get the phone out of a Hardbrick?
I'm asking because i've had people say yes, and people say no
Thats a 50/50 chance.
Itll get you into dl mode but from there who knows...the whole purpose of it is to give you another chance in the event you cant even get into dl mode
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It won't get you out of hard brick! The thing is that you may not be sure if you have really bricked your phone untill you try waking it up with a jig. It's worth to try and also good to have for the future even if it doesn't work this time.
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Where is Josh!? Need him to answer this one...lol
It's only useful if you're too dumb to figure out how to manually put your phone into download mode...
Edit: or flash something that messes up your volume key mapping and can't get into it...in this case you're also pretty clueless.
A jig will get you into download mode as long as your phone is showing some sign of life. If there's no sign of life, it's most likely a boot loader issue and can only be repaired with a jtag at a local repair shop or by sending it to Samsung.
xriderx66 said:
The JIG is ONLY useful if its a softbrick or what?
will the JIG get me out of a hardbrick?
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Just wondering why you don't just make one?
nomadrider123 said:
Just wondering why you don't just make one?
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Ehh.. Too lazy, and even though its easy to make, I tend to screw tge simplest things up
Hey I know this may be the wrong section but im sure we'll get the answer quick here. Was running MIUI 11-4-11 (newest update), decided to upgrade my boot-loader to GB newest, successfully updated, thought CM7 and MIUI were good with GB bootloaders now. Now that I was updated thought I could flash back to froyo roms ok. MISTAKE Decided to odin to KA7 instead of just JFD or whatever. Forgot KA7 had some kind of bootloader file sbl.bin
Phone odined, finished, and shut off completely and nothing works. No lights, no download mode, no computer triangle problem. Im going to order a jig from Team Whiskey but if anyone has ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS please reply and let me know lets get this figured out. I've had the vibrant a long time and been around xda forever im not a noob just was stupid.
THANKS!
Ive had a couple soft bricks too that Ive never had problems with. First hardbrick like this happened with a friends vibrant a year ago and we just sold it. Hoping I dont have a complete HARD BRICK and a paper weight now. Any info is good
Remove Battery.
Hold Both Volume Rockers (Up and Down). Keep Holding.
Place in battery and press power button while holding rockers.
You should get in Download Mode.
If this don't help, your bootloader is corrupted.... you need someone to JTAG.... JIG won't help.
EDIT: If above steps don't work..... After You Remove Battery... Also place in USB cord. And follow same steps
Yea ive tried this a bunch. Whats the info on a jtag? Cant afford a 180 dollar jtag. Youre saying the jig wont boost me into download mode.? Thought maybe it could since my phone may still work, just the bootloaders made it not recognize hardware buttons. Thank you for the reply
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Yea ive tried this a bunch. Whats the info on a jtag? Cant afford a 180 dollar jtag. Youre saying the jig wont boost me into download mode.? Thought maybe it could since my phone may still work, just the bootloaders made it not recognize hardware buttons. Thank you for the reply
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I bricked my phone recently.. completely hard bricked.. it will behave just as no battery in it....
I did lot of reading, and found that JIG may not help with corrupted bootloader.
A last thing for you to do is charge your phone overnight and try combo buttons to enter in recovery mode. This helped few people here, somehow, magically.
EDIT: For US people, I saw JTAG happens for below 50$
Cool thank you. Will try the charge and combos and check back here later. So assume its hardbricked and nothing works, best option is to send the phone by mail to someone with a jtag that will fix it for aboput $40 and send it back? Whats the likely hood of the jtag user fixing my either single bootloader corruption, or if I corrupted the secondary bootloader as well.
As long as you are on a GB bootloader you should try Volume down +Power button to get into download mode. I'm not sure but you should try
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No need for a jtag. If you are comfortable taking your phone apart and have some electronics skills, you can do the unbrickable mod.
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No need for a jtag. If you are comfortable taking your phone apart and have some electronics skills, you can do the unbrickable mod.
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Kinda nervous to dive into this. Is it worth the risk? I'd be down to go ahead and try it but my soldering skills arent up to key in the last two years
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Kinda nervous to dive into this. Is it worth the risk? I'd be down to go ahead and try it but my soldering skills arent up to key in the last two years
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Ahah, then you should go for the safer method, man. Better to be safe.
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Ahah, then you should go for the safer method, man. Better to be safe.
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Meaning jig? Who here has experience with a jig personally? Im wondering if itll force into download mode. I dont wanna pay $10 for a jig then have to pay another 50 to send it in for jtag repair. Thanks for the pointers and suggestions guys
I had something similar happen to me. I used mobiletechvideos service (http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-unbrickable-mod/) for 30 dollars it worthy and it includes the return shipping. Takes around 7 to 10 day. Then I installed Ubuntu along side Windows (Ubuntu CD has that option) and perform the resurrection myself. You can also pay them 10 more to resurrect your Vibrant. After that it will be unbrickable, you can flash away and repair the phone no matter what.
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Meaning jig? Who here has experience with a jig personally? Im wondering if itll force into download mode. I dont wanna pay $10 for a jig then have to pay another 50 to send it in for jtag repair. Thanks for the pointers and suggestions guys
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I bought a JIG I've had bootloader issues in the past and I was able to work with it. Worst case you have to send the JIG back. I actually found it on Amazon. Its been a life saver since.
I bought my jig from teamwhiskey.com but u can probably find one around these forums and I don't know how some kind of jig magic but it works everytime.
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I feel as though there is not enough douchiness against the OP... i think its pretty nasty when someone decides hes gonna take the android dev section for a question because question is more important rthan those in the appropriate section
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Download mod
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Hey I know this may be the wrong section but im sure we'll get the answer quick here. Was running MIUI 11-4-11 (newest update), decided to upgrade my boot-loader to GB newest, successfully updated, thought CM7 and MIUI were good with GB bootloaders now. Now that I was updated thought I could flash back to froyo roms ok. MISTAKE Decided to odin to KA7 instead of just JFD or whatever. Forgot KA7 had some kind of bootloader file sbl.bin
Phone odined, finished, and shut off completely and nothing works. No lights, no download mode, no computer triangle problem. Im going to order a jig from Team Whiskey but if anyone has ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS please reply and let me know lets get this figured out. I've had the vibrant a long time and been around xda forever im not a noob just was stupid.
THANKS!
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Download Mod:
1: Remove battery
2: connect usb Phone and Pc
3: Hold UP volume (Only Up ok)
4: Put battery back
Now u r on download mod
My brother went and flashed a custom international rom. He doesnt remember which one, not that I think it matters at this point. Ive flashed many roms, I've even bricked a few phones, but with alot of reading on the xda site, and all the help from dev's have always unbricked my phone. His samsung doesnt turn on, does not go into recovery or into download mode. Ive tried taking the battery out holding both + - vol then usb then battery. nothing. When plugged into usb without battery, light turns on, when plugged into comp , comp starts looking for a driver, so i dont think its complety bricked yet, but it comes back with this message QHSUSb_dload. Ive read up on other phones on this message, any help with how to solve this. thanks
First slap him for not reading and then go to the development section of your carrier and look for fix thread for your issue I know attention has none not sure about the other carriers.
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If he's seeing QHSUSB DLOAD its hard bricked. From what I've seen looking into this, I believe some HTC's have been able to be recovered from this mode but its not possible for us w/o JTAG. Someone correct me if I'm wrong and shed some light on the subject if they have any. Very intrigued by this and think that somehow an unbrick could be done with this with the right tools/knowloedge
Randomacts said:
First slap him for not reading and then go to the development section of your carrier and look for fix thread for your issue I know attention has none not sure about the other carriers.
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I looked at my the dev section there is no fix that I could find. So I posted the question in the proper samsung galaxy section. I dont believe there is a solution yet aside from sending it in. A few posts here and there touched base on it but I dont think anyone yet on here has eff'd there phones up to this point. Ive went through every samsung section to see if there were any similar post and nothing has really touched base, on it or ive triied it.
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If he's seeing QHSUSB DLOAD its hard bricked. From what I've seen looking into this, I believe some HTC's have been able to be recovered from this mode but its not possible for us w/o JTAG. Someone correct me if I'm wrong and shed some light on the subject if they have any. Very intrigued by this and think that somehow an unbrick could be done with this with the right tools/knowloedge
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Yes I found four posts about the similar qhsusb dload, and also read about jtag, already gave my brother the website url, to contact about sending the thing in. I just havent been able to find a solution on here.
well ill have to find and reread the stuff i saw abt the htc's cuz if im not mistaken some were actually made unbrickable because of this. i was able to install drivers, and talk to the phone with a couple of things, including odin but it just hung as i expected it to. I think something could be done with this, dont seem like the typical hardbrick. let a couple more people brick this thing, if its possible someone will figure it out
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well ill have to find and reread the stuff i saw abt the htc's cuz if im not mistaken some were actually made unbrickable because of this. i was able to install drivers, and talk to the phone with a couple of things, including odin but it just hung as i expected it to. I think something could be done with this, dont seem like the typical hardbrick. let a couple more people brick this thing, if its possible someone will figure it out
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
I believe this is the post your talking about. Anyways I just can't believe the broski actually bricked his phone, I trully thought it was damn near impossible. amazing
It is never impossible to brick a device. This is why one should know what they are doing before they do it. I mean really, he doesn't even know what rom he flashed? Flashing a device is not for everyone nor should everyone do it. If you don't understand what your doing then don't do it.
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is that so??
zelendel said:
It is never impossible to brick a device.
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Tell that to AdamOutler lol
zelendel said:
It is never impossible to brick a device. This is why one should know what they are doing before they do it. I mean really, he doesn't even know what rom he flashed? Flashing a device is not for everyone nor should everyone do it. If you don't understand what your doing then don't do it.
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Ya well If I would have not rooted his phone for him, he would have never have known about xda. He's 13. live and learn.
kendmclean said:
Ya well If I would have not rooted his phone for him, he would have never have known about xda. He's 13. live and learn.
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Well, the best thing to do would be to go to the sprint section and look at mskip's sticky with his toolkit, and load the qualcomm drivers. it's an ugly situation, but that's your best lead.
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Well, the best thing to do would be to go to the sprint section and look at mskip's sticky with his toolkit, and load the qualcomm drivers. it's an ugly situation, but that's your best lead.
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Ya I did that about 4 hours ago, in my devices and printers, in now says QHSUSB_DLOAD is working properly. Yet I cant get it to connect to the toolkit, to odin, I cant even find the phone with cmd. it makes a noise everytime you plug it in to the comp, well the comp does and it searches for drivers and installs them, they all installed correctly the first time aside from the one above that was fixed. Thanks though for the help, I really appreciate it.
If no other solutions work, a JTAG repair WILL unbrick your device. MobileTech Videos (www.mobiletechvideos.com) offers JTAG repair for the SGS3. I've used them to purchase a download mode jig and they have fast turn around times, great customer service, and excellent service. You really can't go wrong using them. Hope it all works out and you can get your device unbricked.
Let us know how you hard bricked it so we can do that when we need to get our phone warranty replaced without customer service seeing the custom flashed counter!
aeakin said:
If no other solutions work, a JTAG repair WILL unbrick your device. MobileTech Videos (www.mobiletechvideos.com) offers JTAG repair for the SGS3. I've used them to purchase a download mode jig and they have fast turn around times, great customer service, and excellent service. You really can't go wrong using them. Hope it all works out and you can get your device unbricked.
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Ya i gave the broski that website this morning.thanks for the info appreciate everyone whos taken the time to throw in some ideas.
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Let us know how you hard bricked it so we can do that when we need to get our phone warranty replaced without customer service seeing the custom flashed counter!
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Either this is your weak attempt at humour or you never read the entire thread, like I said in on the first page, He flashed a international rom. I dont need to recap the entire 2 pages, the fact that you posted that comment, like why would anyone want to brick their phone for warrenty if its working fine. just stupid. I appreciate your meaningless contribution to a site where some people try to learn a thing or 2. I would suggest you try taking the site more seriously. And if you cant, have some respect for the people that do. thanks again. take care
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
U can reboot into download thru recovery
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U can reboot into download thru recovery
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Walk me through that one, no response to anything, power and up volume results in nothing. Plugging into usb results in nothing Windows, ODIN nor Kies registers it.
vanemburghj said:
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
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I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
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I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
Shirokishi said:
I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
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I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
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That is what I ordered, either way on the buttons, phone is bricked to point will take very special sauce to fix it.
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
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Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
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If you can see the samsung bootloader then yeah there's hope otherwise you're gonna need the $100 fix for it.
But at least people are responding, I got no love on my end, lol
keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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Well smokestack76 told you differently yesterday. He said over 20 times with a jig. Plus for $1.60 I will give it a try.
yes, for the price, if it makes you feel better, try it..
and, if you believe him, when you can find 20 others that said it did absolutely nothing, then that's your choice.
the sooner you send it in to Samsung, the sooner you will have a working phone..
If Samsung is wiling to send you a loaner phone while you're under warranty i can't see why you wouldnt do that.
I know Nintendo is awesome like that but apparently Samsung reps are quite jaded when you do something silly like ask an honest question.
I wish Samsung would honor warranty services if the device hasn't been on the market longer than year.
I'm A. Maybe he Made a mistake and wants to own up for it insted of weasling into a fraudulent phone.
B. I would be a little jaded as well when I get people calling me all day that have messed up their own phone and are now trying to steal from me.
C. Samsung does honor warranties a year after the device has been on market. YOUR WARRANTY DOES NOT GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL THE ORIGINAL DATE OF PURCHASE. not when the first one of its kind rolls off the assembly line.
Also, wase a jig does work of you are not actually bricked, if you were to be soft bricked the jig would force download mode. I had a captivate I built a jig for, first thing I did was try it on my note. Bam, download mode.
And finally op it's a micro usb jig not mini. Mini is bigger than micro
yeah bro, I know a jig works for SOME phones; it helped me bring my S2 back to life..
However, I have read many many reports of it doing nothing for the Note, so that was why I said what I did..
Plus, people are using the term "Bricked" around here in so many ways, that its hard to know what they mean when they say it..to me, a bricked phone is DEAD, and nothing but an expensive paperweight.....
I can take a video of my note going from off to download mode with nothing but my jig. However the same jig that works on both my phones is out of resistance tolerance on my brothers sgs2.
And yes bricked is used much too often,it is a term to describe when your phone is inert, has no pliability and just sits there, like the baked red clay building material it was named for.
was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
Well the jig did nothing for me. I suggest send your phone to mobiletechvideos.com for repair, he goes through the JTAG recovery method, and he also unlocked mine... he did a great job. I bricked my Note flashing a ROM for another device by mistake, could not use the jig for anything, so had it repaired. Feeling really happy now... hope this helps.
the jig isn't and was never meant to fix a hard brick...
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Back on captivate, certain bootloaders would disable the button combos for download and recovery, making a simple (I hate the term... But) soft brick into a much stickier situation, so it was discovered that using 300k ohms of resistance across certain pins on the usb port from a powered off state would trigger download mode in seconds, making you then able to simply odin a stock rom and try again.
It was later discovered that the jig had the same effect on the sgs2 with the added benefit of restting the flash counter.
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If you flash a firmware for the international note on an i717 you will need jtag because you are indeed bricked of the hard variety.
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was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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might as well keep the jig for the couple of bucks it cost..plus, even if it doesn't work for this phone, it might work for your next one!
There are dozens of threads about "bricked" phones. It's not always clear if the OP(s) managed to recover.
Just out of curiosity. Did anyone manage to brick their phone? It seems like it's fairly difficult to do so.
if you break the ROM. use recovery, if recovery is broke, use lg recovery or flash tool, if that doesn't work then you did something wrong or hardware issues
So afaik no hard bricks
Since I own android phones, I have not hard brick any. If you hard brick an android phone, you should not own an android phone, you A. did not read instruction B. did not follow instruction C. think your smarter than the instruction by skipping it.
I thought as well that it's not that easy to brick the phone. I am comming from GNex, there were not that many threads from people asking how to recover, so I thought that maybe something is different with G2
There is a HUGE difference between hard brick and soft brick. Most people soft brick their devices and that is normally pretty easy to recover from(if you can get into recovery just restore back up, or just use the native tool from your hardware manufacturer). Most posts come from people who soft brick their devices and don't know how to recover from it. The people who hard brick normally flashed wrong kernels(from other phones) or were playing around with something they shouldn't have been playing with. I have owned a lot of phones (see my sig) and hacked every one of them(well... the ones that could be, the dumb phones didn't offer much for hacking) and have not hard bricked a single one. I have soft bricked some and some took all night to recover from but never hard bricked
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There is a HUGE difference between hard brick and soft brick. Most people soft brick their devices and that is normally pretty easy to recover from(if you can get into recovery just restore back up, or just use the native tool from your hardware manufacturer). Most posts come from people who soft brick their devices and don't know how to recover from it. The people who hard brick normally flashed wrong kernels(from other phones) or were playing around with something they shouldn't have been playing with. I have owned a lot of phones (see my sig) and hacked every one of them(well... the ones that could be, the dumb phones didn't offer much for hacking) and have not hard bricked a single one. I have soft bricked some and some took all night to recover from but never hard bricked
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True, the only case of a legitimate hard brick where the user wasn't at fault was back in the og EVO forums where an early/beta build of TWRP may have been able to corrupt/damage the nv partition. But of course even that was fixable, just out of the op's range of abilities.
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There are dozens of threads about "bricked" phones. It's not always clear if the OP(s) managed to recover.
Just out of curiosity. Did anyone manage to brick their phone? It seems like it's fairly difficult to do so.
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i did...not paying attention. doing too much too fast...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48080169#post48080169
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i did...not paying attention. doing too much too fast...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48080169#post48080169
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Still work in progress so hopefully you'll find the way to sort it out, before you become first hard brick case
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... The people who hard brick normally flashed wrong kernels(from other phones) or were playing around with something they shouldn't have been playing with. ...
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Flashing kernel from another phone, not another variant of the same phone, right? Flashing D801 kernel on D802 is still recoverable? Just curious because I think, I've seen a thread where someone did it.
I have another question though. Does it mean that kernel developers are at constant risk of hard bricking their phones? Are there any other "safety" mechanisms available to them?
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Still work in progress so hopefully you'll find the way to sort it out, before you become first hard brick case
Flashing kernel from another phone, not another variant of the same phone, right? Flashing D801 kernel on D802 is still recoverable? Just curious because I think, I've seen a thread where someone did it.
I have another question though. Does it mean that kernel developers are at constant risk of hard bricking their phones? Are there any other "safety" mechanisms available to them?
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That really depends on the hardware of both models.. If they are the exact same you may be ok.. Just be careful when flashing and don't be the guinea pig and wait to here if there are any issues first
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Still work in progress so hopefully you'll find the way to sort it out, before you become first hard brick case
Flashing kernel from another phone, not another variant of the same phone, right? Flashing D801 kernel on D802 is still recoverable? Just curious because I think, I've seen a thread where someone did it.
I have another question though. Does it mean that kernel developers are at constant risk of hard bricking their phones? Are there any other "safety" mechanisms available to them?
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yes I done it, just enter recovery and flash your kernel
@Fma965, my lg g2 got hard bricked pl help me
pls