The X2 is now a paper weight.
I was scrolling from homescreen to homescreen and it just rebooted. Will not boot up. Hangs at the "dual core technology" part. Tried going into stock recovery to maybe SBF back.. hangs at "starting rsd protocol support".
Shes done.
Depending on what I get as a replacement tomorrow, I may be back, I may not. Well, I'll always be back, just maybe not in the same capacity. Cant make themes for a phone I don't have.. hard to test them.
xkape said:
The X2 is now a paper weight.
I was scrolling from homescreen to homescreen and it just rebooted. Will not boot up. Hangs at the "dual core technology" part. Tried going into stock recovery to maybe SBF back.. hangs at "starting rsd protocol support".
Shes done.
Depending on what I get as a replacement tomorrow, I may be back, I may not. Well, I'll always be back, just maybe not in the same capacity. Cant make themes for a phone I don't have.. hard to test them.
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We can fix ya bro!!! C'mon now...
If I cant get into CWR or factory recovery I dont see how. The worst part is, I wasnt even doing anything reckless when it happened.
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If I cant get into CWR or factory recovery I dont see how. The worst part is, I wasnt even doing anything reckless when it happened.
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Do you change the bootstrap to "charge only" mode ever? If not, pull your battery, plug it into a wall charger (without battery) and watch it boot into recovery.
Give it a shot mayne
Never used charge mode and it was (when it broke) and is now.. plugged into the wall.
Did you power on by holding power button + volume down until "Fastboot" shows up top right? Then use volume down to scroll to android Recovery. That doesn't work?
No sir. I am going to go try and fix it the Russian way.. if anyones ever seen Armageddon, they will know what that means. If not, lets just say the screens resiliency is about to get tested.... be back in 5.
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No sir. I am going to go try and fix it the Russian way.. if anyones ever seen Armageddon, they will know what that means. If not, lets just say the screens resiliency is about to get tested.... be back in 5.
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Lol. Unplug it from the wall, pop the battery out, plug it back in. Try it boss.
mistawolfe... what you suggested may have done the trick but I would like to assume it's what I did. After throwing it across my yard as far as I could and then finding it and kicking it back to the house it now booted into stock recovery where I wiped data factory rest... then rebooted and it came up with Eclipse bone stock. Not a scratch on it either.. screen is as good as advertised!
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mistawolfe... what you suggested may have done the trick but I would like to assume it's what I did. After throwing it across my yard as far as I could and then finding it and kicking it back to the house it now booted into stock recovery where I wiped data factory rest... then rebooted and it came up with Eclipse bone stock. Not a scratch on it either.. screen is as good as advertised!
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That was going to be my 2nd suggestion. Glad you're back!
If you power down the phone then plug it into the wall charger it will boot into clockworkmod by its self. If you have it installed.
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Dang dude, glad to hear its up and running now.
And never forget about "this is how we fix problem in Russian Space station"
HOLY CRAP. This should be a sticky for how to get revenge on your x2 and MAKE THAT HOE RESPECT YOU.
I cannot believe that worked. Amazing. Every so often electronic act up and a good whack pow smack kick shows it who's boss hahahaha
Im guessing it was Mistas idea that worked..lol they just happened at the same time so I still can believe it was the beat down.
I'm not really sure what happend to your phone, but if you really screw it badly: power down the phone, then hold the volume up key, then power up the phone while holding the volume up key, this will start you in RSD mode. Find an SBF and flash that SBF to your phone in RSD Lite. Should be good as new...
naven.. i tried that too.. it froze up as well.
SO throwing it across the yard fixes bricks? Wow I like that idea
Shhhh If Mine Bricks I'm Building A Chimney.
Starting rsd protocol is what u need the screen to say in order to sbf ur phone
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no sir. I am going to go try and fix it the russian way.. If anyones ever seen armageddon, they will know what that means. If not, lets just say the screens resiliency is about to get tested.... Be back in 5.
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this is how we fix russian space station *whack*!
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I attempted to flash a froyo bootloader via odin, said it failed.. now my phone is permanantly stuck on this screen that has a pic of a phone with a few dots leading to a computer and an ! between the two. I can't get it into download mode, I can't boot.. wtf did I do??? I followed the instructions to a friggin T!
oldfield16 said:
I attempted to flash a froyo bootloader via odin, said it failed.. now my phone is permanantly stuck on this screen that has a pic of a phone with a few dots leading to a computer and an ! between the two. I can't get it into download mode, I can't boot.. wtf did I do??? I followed the instructions to a friggin T!
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odin back to stock
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
Or try that same method without holding the power button, just the volume rocker (up and down) when plugging into usb that works for some ppl
I frickin tried all that I still can't get outta that damn screen
And Odin won't see it, much less my whole damn computer
Edit: Still NOTHING. Am thoroghly convinced I did a hard brick some ****ing how and I'm about ready to shove this thing through a wall
try this. thats what worked for me
bfranklin1986 said:
try this. thats what worked for me
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I'm not some friggin noob who doesn't use the search button, ok?? I've tried all this!
No your phone is not completely bricked. I rescued my phone many times from that screen. Connect your phone to another PC, install ODIN & samsung drivers. Make sure that the phone is recognized,
ON ODIN Select only the phone.
use any modem file using Phone
Click start that should bring your phone back to life.
Search for Eugene Froyo that does not brick and start from there.
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No your phone is not completely bricked. I rescued my phone many times from that screen. Connect your phone to another PC, install ODIN & samsung drivers. Make sure that the phone is recognized,
ON ODIN Select only the phone.
use any modem file using Phone
Click start that should bring your phone back to life.
Search for Eugene Froyo that does not brick and start from there.
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I have TWO completely separate computers with samsung and odin drivers installed, BOTH of them yield the exact same result. The damn computer can't even recognize the phone!
oldfield16 said:
I'm not some friggin noob who doesn't use the search button, ok?? I've tried all this!
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You need to relax for someone who is asking for help.
oldfield16 said:
I have TWO completely separate computers with samsung and odin drivers installed, BOTH of them yield the exact same result. The damn computer can't even recognize the phone!
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Do you have a Jig?
If you do not, then spend the 5$ and get one. Its worth the money. Will get you into download mode in a jiffy.
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You need to relax for someone who is asking for help.
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Sorry, just don't like being treated like some noob who doesn't use the search button/didn't already do some research in attempt to fix it themselves.
chichu_9 said:
Do you have a Jig?
If you do not, then spend the 5$ and get one. Its worth the money. Will get you into download mode in a jiffy.
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If that's my only solution then I'm stuck using a mytouch until that comes......
oldfield16 said:
If that's my only solution then I'm stuck using a mytouch until that comes......
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Team whiskey sells em, I got myn in 3 days.
chichu_9 said:
Team whiskey sells em, I got myn in 3 days.
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Guess I really just don't get why it REFUSES to leave that screen. I myself have saved my phone from that screen a few times myself, now it just won't. No matter what I do it just sits there. Doesn't matter the button combo, doesn't matter when I pull the battery or plug in the USB, not a goddamn thing.. and of course I don't get paid til tomorrow so, I'll have to wait through the entire weekend plus however long it takes for it to arrive so.. if someone could please come up with a solution that makes it so I don't have to go back to my chinsey little mytouch for a full week let me know.
Appreciate the help, but this situation in general.. it's just bull****.
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Guess I really just don't get why it REFUSES to leave that screen. I myself have saved my phone from that screen a few times myself, now it just won't. No matter what I do it just sits there. Doesn't matter the button combo, doesn't matter when I pull the battery or plug in the USB, not a goddamn thing.. and of course I don't get paid til tomorrow so, I'll have to wait through the entire weekend plus however long it takes for it to arrive so.. if someone could please come up with a solution that makes it so I don't have to go back to my chinsey little mytouch for a full week let me know.
Appreciate the help, but this situation in general.. it's just bull****.
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I am not sure, which froyo bootloader you tried to flash, but what you did is kill the three button combo on you phone.
If you were in Atlanta, I could have let you borrow my Jig. Sometimes these things are frustrating, but look at them as a learning. Next time you will know not to mess with bootloaders. FYI, you are still lucky than many, things could have been worse.
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I am not sure, which froyo bootloader you tried to flash, but what you did is kill the three button combo on you phone.
If you were in Atlanta, I could have let you borrow my Jig. Sometimes these things are frustrating, but look at them as a learning. Next time you will know not to mess with bootloaders. FYI, you are still lucky than many, things could have been worse.
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All I was trying to do was odin to stock and flash the stock froyo bootloader so I could get CM7 working, like so many have done before me. Between all the other **** ups I've been making this last month, this one's kinda pushing me over the edge.
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Guess I really just don't get why it REFUSES to leave that screen. I myself have saved my phone from that screen a few times myself, now it just won't. No matter what I do it just sits there. Doesn't matter the button combo, doesn't matter when I pull the battery or plug in the USB, not a goddamn thing.. and of course I don't get paid til tomorrow so, I'll have to wait through the entire weekend plus however long it takes for it to arrive so.. if someone could please come up with a solution that makes it so I don't have to go back to my chinsey little mytouch for a full week let me know.
Appreciate the help, but this situation in general.. it's just bull****.
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you could allways make your own
Rofl bro, exactly that happened to me... rxactly that the t roofl... heres how i fixed it:
First i tried normal download mode, that didnt work.. then i tried pulling out battery, plugging in, holding vol buttons and putting bbattery in... this worked
But then i stupidly.tried tto flash the froyo bootloaders again (from cm7)... same exact issie excrpt the solution didnt work this time... this time i had to make a jig...
Once your in download mode, odin with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING... meaning open odin, plug in dl mode, once recognized, click start.. no pit.or pda or modem or anything and dont touch the repartition or whatever bullets. This wworked for me, it just rebooted into cm7 immidietly
Then if you want froyo bootloaders, do a nandroid, odin to stock, flash em, flasg cm7 and restore the nnandroid.. good luck
Sent from a cell tower to the XDA server to you.
1) take your battery out
2)put your battery in
3)hold vol up and vol down
4)plug your usb cable
this should get u to download mode....
nomadrider123 said:
you could allways make your own
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I decided to take advantage of someone who can get next day shipping for only $5 on amazon so I have a jig coming anyway.
Again, appreciate the methods people are posting, but I've tried em all. My only hope is a jig, and if not then.. well..idk honestly, buy a jtag box?
I am trying to unlock my bootloader so im using the automatic thing..
My phone says failed to boot 0x1000. it warned me that this might happen and that i can use the volume keys to select fastboot but the volume keys arent doing anything..
help!
when youre phone is first booting, the very first thing you have to do is hold the down volume key (instantly after boot starts) and then press the up volume key to select it
ok so i did that and now at the bottom it says
"current choice is mode:
fastboot
starting fastboot protocall support"
the next step it tells me to do is turn off the phone while i press and hold volume down
but it wont let me turn it off.. the power button isnt doing anything
please if somoene could help mee
skip that step. You already did that step (what I just told you to do). You now have to run the fastboot protocols that they tell you to use in the "pudding" thread
edit: don't worry man. I'm here to help. Just keep telling me whats going on
i THINK i MAY have figured it out!!!
the phone now has the big Motorola sign with dualcore technology under it and it says
unlocked at the top right.
ill let you know if it eventually finished turning on..
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does it usually take this long??????
sounds like you took care of it. If it says unlocked, youre good!
Good job man
does it ever boot? does it take a long time the first boot?
its still at that screen. -- never done this before if you cant tell.
no worries man. Give it a couple minutes!
You'll learn a lot as you keep doing more and more. In case your contacts get deleted, be sure to check out an app called "contact restoration" in the app market from moto. Works great. And be sure to check out faux123's 1.3 OC kernel (most stable I've seen so far) and either the Alien 4 rom or CyanogenMod7 pre-beta 3 (what I run and I love it)
okay ill give it a couple more minutes hopefully itll do somtehing
and yeah I want to put the alien rom on here.. is cm7 pre beta 3 better working than alien?
what do you think
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its still at that same screen.. should i be worried yet?
well, for you, I'd suggest running alien build 4 with the alien 4 theme. It runs really smooth and has very few issues. You should do some research into CM7 though...I can do lots of cool **** with my phone that I never knew was even possible with a cellphone
The only problem is it's not a very good "all day, everyday" rom. Some things dont work and there are some quirks but all basic functions work well
stillllll..
man...that's a little unusual. I've never heard of it doing that. Let me ask a buddy real quick
okay because its still doing it haha gt back to me soon !!
That happened to me, just pull battery and reset
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andrewxu said:
That happened to me, just pull battery and reset
Sent from my Atrix 4G
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YESS YOU SAVED MY LIFEEE
i dont know why i didnt try that in the first place but THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!!
lol took the words right out of my mouth. I just wanted to be sure it wouldn't brick your phone before I told you to do it!
Good luck with roms and kernels and such
spitefulcheerio said:
lol took the words right out of my mouth. I just wanted to be sure it wouldn't brick your phone before I told you to do it!
Good luck with roms and kernels and such
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thank you so much for all of your help
one more question -- which rom do you think is best?
Alien 4 (or any build) for a standard, everyday rom for sure.
yeah thats the one i am downloading right now.
I rooted the phone now and installed superuser.
once i download the rom and put it in my phones storage do i get intwo cwm by holding power and volume down ?
and then do i just flash it
Hi.
I was flashing my phone back to stock gingerbread and after doing some verification and stuff my phone just went crazy.
The touchscreen clicks on everything by itself, sometimes it's so hard to unlock the pattern.
The screen is clean, nothing on it, nothing went inside the phone.
flashing back to any other ROMs wont work so im assuming that it's the hardware problem.
I was going to go to the verizon retail center and ask for the exchange but I already made an exchange from tbolt to x2, and now I'm wondering if I can get my phone exchanged for the malfunctioning.
Or any way that I can get this thing back to normal.
Thank you.
I'm sure that as long as you can reproduce the issue they won't have a problem replacing it with another X2. Just make sure you SBF before you make the exchange.
Well that's the thing.
It wont show up on rsd lite 5.3.1 with PC mode and USB debugging on.
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i factory reseted by using the recovery mode. This is really annoying and driving me nuts.
As long as it's on stock firmware and SU isn't there or anything that requires root you should be okay.
Alright. Thanks for the comment!
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Well that's the thing.
It wont show up on rsd lite 5.3.1 with PC mode and USB debugging on.
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i factory reseted by using the recovery mode. This is really annoying and driving me nuts.
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if youre trying to sbf you have to put it on rsd mode...power off the phone hold power and volume up till it flashes and it should say ready for rsd protocol or whatever, from there plug it in to the computer and it should recognize it.
Mine was doing the same thing,only it was a random ocurrence throughout the day for like two weeks and it only happened in the middle left of the screen,flashed back to stock still happened then it just stopped doing it,weird
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mine does this on the atrix rom but once I sbf back to GB it works fine.
Had this happen to me one time. I accidentally flash back a nandroid of a froyo backup. I was running P3's Pre-GB at the time, phone went crazy. SBF fixed everything, I was S***ing bricks when it happened though... lol
It also happened to me too. Bit it went away after I started to mess with flashing stuff to the phone like themes. It sucked, I thought I messed something up bad haha.
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Mr_GreenJeans said:
Had this happen to me one time. I accidentally flash back a nandroid of a froyo backup. I was running P3's Pre-GB at the time, phone went crazy. SBF fixed everything, I was S***ing bricks when it happened though... lol
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BEST description for what was happening lol. Bricks are hard coming out lol
btw..
any new news on ya nandroid problem greenjeans? I mean MR greenjeans ..r u from the same area as me? Near claymont boothwyn Philadelphia etc....sorry for off subject...looking for the small world lol
I have had this happen several times when flashing. Just SBF back, wipe all data and cache and start over. It will go away! It seems it happened more when I took short cuts or flat out forgot a step, but it always went away after a clean instal. Hope that helps...
same here.... i do the sbf and a wipe (3X) and it always comes back for me
Sounds like you need an exorcism!
My wife's DInc had was also possessed. With her's it was a faulty digitizer and is a problem with many DInc.
More directly related, my DX2 does this about every day at some point. I'm running Eclipse v.6 FWIW. It seems to be a software problem as I can just turn off the screen and it goes away.
This happens to me on my DX2 with some ROMs but only when the phone is plugged in to the charger or the USB cable... Unplug it and it goes away... Really random... I have thought about taking it in but cant remember if it does it on stock unrooted or not... Might give it a try this weekend and if it does I may just get it replaced.....
It works fine after SBFing to stock GB.
lol i thought i f***ed up something bad haha
I might just keep using this GB until the eclipse .6 gets fixed up or something
Well I'm currently on .7 rc1 eclipse and its the best rom I've tried yet... And I've tried a lot lol
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DAG425 said:
This happens to me on my DX2 with some ROMs but only when the phone is plugged in to the charger or the USB cable... Unplug it and it goes away... Really random... I have thought about taking it in but cant remember if it does it on stock unrooted or not... Might give it a try this weekend and if it does I may just get it replaced.....
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mine was still acting weird after restoring with the backup i made with stock froyo.
It's fine after deleting all the data/cache in the device and flashing stock GB.
you should just give it a try. This problem just seems so random
DAG425 said:
This happens to me on my DX2 with some ROMs but only when the phone is plugged in to the charger or the USB cable... Unplug it and it goes away... Really random... I have thought about taking it in but cant remember if it does it on stock unrooted or not... Might give it a try this weekend and if it does I may just get it replaced.....
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I have heard that if the wrong voltage is coming through the charger it can make it go nuts like that which can be pretty bad for ur phone.
Are u using the stock x2 charger or a replacement of some kind?
Mine says output 5.1Volts (850mA)
ashclepdia said:
I have heard that if the wrong voltage is coming through the charger it can make it go nuts like that which can be pretty bad for ur phone.
Are u using the stock x2 charger or a replacement of some kind?
Mine says output 5.1Volts (850mA)
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Im using the rocketfish wall charger for the DroidX so I would assume it should be fine... But the voltage is interesting because it happens when the phone is plugged into my pc or my lappy also..... and that is using the stock USB cable... If it were more frequent and on all ROMs including stock I would have had it replaced already... I'll check the voltage on that rocketfish wall charger with the stock moto one and see when I get off work later....
I bricked my galaxy note i717 beyond recovery with a regular jig. I've looked into jtag but I haven't found any information whether it's viable for the i717 (i.e. which jtag it's using, which box I would need, where I would need to bring it etc etc.)
So here's my question: Do any of you guys know any more about how to unbrick the phone or details about whether/how to unbrick using jtag?
Maybe I've overlooked something else. Here's how it went down:
I was stupid and tried to flash the phone with firmware for the N7000 because I was overexcited and didn't know that it wasn't an n7000. Now the recovery mode wouldn't let me upgrade (understandable reasons I guess) so I decided to force flash it with odin which also didn't let me upgrade the phone. So I used some method relying on adb. The process took way to long so I unplugged the phone mid-way through it, then replugged it and suddenly the process reported success. So the phone started rebooting just that instead of actually booting up it stayed black. Pressing any of the buttons yields no response - neither vibration nor any screen response. Using the usb jig also yields no response but I'm not entirely sure if there's a jig method that might work - or a key combo that might work - or even a usb method that might work.
Anyway any advice would be highly appreciated.
Did you try return to the store where you boought it? If your phone don't show anything on the screen, there is no way store knows what's going on with your phone unless you tell them the truth
That's exactly what I would do
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if you can get into download mode try reflashing the stock recovery found in the dev section then if you can get that fair try flashing the odin stock rom to see if it will boot
Read his OP. He can't get into the download mode even with a Jig.
I have yet to encounter any one as reckless as OP trying so hard to brick the phone
foxbat121 said:
Read his OP. He can't get into the download mode even with a Jig.
I have yet to encounter any one as reckless as OP trying so hard to brick the phone
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he never said if he tried with the hardware buttons doesn't mean he cant do it if hes been trying the jig
foxbat121 said:
Read his OP. He can't get into the download mode even with a Jig.
I have yet to encounter any one as reckless as OP trying so hard to brick the phone
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Somebody has to be the guinea pig I guess lol. Glad it wasnt me. LOL Only thing worse is the Will it blend guy or the iFix it tear downs lol.
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he never said if he tried with the hardware buttons doesn't mean he cant do it if hes been trying the jig
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If jig won't work, I'm pretty sure hardware button won't work either. It goes without saying that he probably already tried everything he could find.
edpsx said:
Somebody has to be the guinea pig I guess lol. Glad it wasnt me. LOL Only thing worse is the Will it blend guy or the iFix it tear downs lol.
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That's not guinea pig. He did couple wrong things in a row (wrong ROM, god know what he is doing with abd and then unplug the phone in the middle of flashing or something). If I'd make a guess, he screwed up the bootloader.
foxbat121 said:
Did you try return to the store where you boought it? If your phone don't show anything on the screen, there is no way store knows what's going on with your phone unless you tell them the truth
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Yeah I thought about doing that - worst case scenario they tell me I voided my warranty and give me the phone back and I can still try finding a jtag solution or do i have to face any other consequences including maybe never getting my phone back?
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He did couple wrong things in a row (wrong ROM, god know what he is doing with abd and then unplug the phone in the middle of flashing or something). If I'd make a guess, he screwed up the bootloader.
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That's my guess too. I screwed up badly. I would like to blame it on the late hour I did all that but it was just overexcited stupidity -_-
Try your buttons...
Everybody's talking about whether you tried to get into download mode with buttons, but You have not said for sure you tried it.
Hold down down volume button, home button and power button all at the same time. You don't know for sure until you try it.
brojoe11 said:
Everybody's talking about whether you tried to get into download mode with buttons, but You have not said for sure you tried it.
Hold down down volume button, home button and power button all at the same time. You don't know for sure until you try it.
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I'm sorry that I wasn't being very clear on this but I have tried and it didn't work. Thanks though.
cilmeron said:
I'm sorry that I wasn't being very clear on this but I have tried and it didn't work. Thanks though.
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I know on some phones that download mode can still be activated even if the screen isn't working properly and displaying it. I know many infuse users ran into problems and were still able to use Odin to flash stock and fix their phone. Try doing the hardware method of getting into download mode, and even though your screen doesn't show anything, it may still connect to Odin and you could try to flash back to stock.
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U cant brick these phones.use the hardware buttons to get into download mode.
Take battery out and put it back in.hold power vol down and home for 20sec and then press vol up and plug into ur pc with odin running.u should see something on port section.
If that dont work.hold power and both vol. Buttons for 30 sec. Then press vol.up and plug in usb.hope it works.
mintu123 said:
U cant brick these phones.use the hardware buttons to get into download mode.
Take battery out and put it back in.hold power vol down and home for 20sec and then press vol up and plug into ur pc with odin running.u should see something on port section.
If that dont work.hold power and both vol. Buttons for 30 sec. Then press vol.up and plug in usb.hope it works.
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Actually, you can brick it to the point of needing JTAG repairs to restore your device. That being said, it's very very very hard to brick it. You have to do something like flash firmware for a completely wrong device and screw up your bootloaders in the process.
cilmeron said:
I bricked my galaxy note i717 beyond recovery with a regular jig. I've looked into jtag but I haven't found any information whether it's viable for the i717 (i.e. which jtag it's using, which box I would need, where I would need to bring it etc etc.)
So here's my question: Do any of you guys know any more about how to unbrick the phone or details about whether/how to unbrick using jtag?
Maybe I've overlooked something else. Here's how it went down:
I was stupid and tried to flash the phone with firmware for the N7000 because I was overexcited and didn't know that it wasn't an n7000. Now the recovery mode wouldn't let me upgrade (understandable reasons I guess) so I decided to force flash it with odin which also didn't let me upgrade the phone. So I used some method relying on adb. The process took way to long so I unplugged the phone mid-way through it, then replugged it and suddenly the process reported success. So the phone started rebooting just that instead of actually booting up it stayed black. Pressing any of the buttons yields no response - neither vibration nor any screen response. Using the usb jig also yields no response but I'm not entirely sure if there's a jig method that might work - or a key combo that might work - or even a usb method that might work.
Anyway any advice would be highly appreciated.
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I've read some so my suggestion is this:
First make sure that you have the drivers installed for your phone. Then pull the battery wait for a few seconds. press the down button and then the power to go in download mode and hold them pressed for 20s. Now plug in the USB and press the volume up button. If Odin detects it you're good to go! If not... Well it's worth a shot
My theory is that even though the screen is blank, the hardware still boots properly. Just make sure your battery is somewhat charged. And also plug in the USB AFTER you "boot" in download mode.
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I was stupid and tried to flash the phone with firmware for the N7000 because I was overexcited and didn't know that it wasn't an n7000. Now the recovery mode wouldn't let me upgrade (understandable reasons I guess) so I decided to force flash it with odin which also didn't let me upgrade the phone. So I used some method relying on adb. The process took way to long so I unplugged the phone mid-way through it, then replugged it and suddenly the process reported success. So the phone started rebooting just that instead of actually booting up it stayed black. Pressing any of the buttons yields no response - neither vibration nor any screen response. Using the usb jig also yields no response but I'm not entirely sure if there's a jig method that might work - or a key combo that might work - or even a usb method that might work.
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Everything here screams 'you should never attempt to modify your device again.'
What is it with all you smart asses telling him he shouldn't have done it??? What, you never made a mistake in your entire life???
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Why don't you find Adam_Outler in the hardware hacking forum? Send your phone to him and he'll hopefully be able to create an unbrickable mod. Not only will you likely have a fixed phone but it will mean volumes for our community.
Note, you will be without a phone for a bit
I did something stupid to my note too so don't feel too bad. **** happens... I returned my note to att with no problem because my screen was permanently black. Wouldn't do anything download mode,cwm nothin.. Flashed gsm kernel from root so beware the way its layed out u won't know its gsm unless you read it extremely careful. I had read the thread three times and only caught it after i read really slowly post-brick.
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ekerbuddyeker said:
What is it with all you smart asses telling him he shouldn't have done it??? What, you never made a mistake in your entire life???
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It's not that, we've all made mistakes, but it's like this guy went out of his way to try to brick the phone. This isn't like "oh crap, I flashed the wrong radio"
He tried to flash a ROM from a different SoC and every fail-safe wouldn't let him do it. I'm surprised at how well the different programs tried to save his phone, then he actually went ADB and forced it onto his phone and then he unplugs during a flash.
It's like he drove his car without paying attention and hit a fence that prevents you from flying off a cliff, then he kept ramming his car into the fence, then took some C4, blew up the fence, drove off the cliff, then started yelling "help, I fell off the cliff"
N3RD420 said:
I did something stupid to my note too so don't feel too bad. **** happens... I returned my note to att with no problem because my screen was permanently black. Wouldn't do anything download mode,cwm nothin.. Flashed gsm kernel from root so beware the way its layed out u won't know its gsm unless you read it extremely careful. I had read the thread three times and only caught it after i read really slowly post-brick.
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I'm confused, is there a CDMA Note? What do you mean "they won't know it's GSM"?
Alright So I bought this Atrix for 50 bucks. Guy was having problems and coulnt figure it out. Its rooted and unlocked. When I plug the charger into it (the stock wall charger. not to the computer) it goes to the M boot screen. I can't get to any other screen to come up. When I hold the volume buttons down, I get "Cant start RSD Battery too low to flash". also, When I plug it in, The green LED lights up for a second then turns off as it goes to the Motorola screen. I can't turn it on either with just the battery. any Ideas?
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Alright So I bought this Atrix for 50 bucks. Guy was having problems and coulnt figure it out. Its rooted and unlocked. When I plug the charger into it (the stock wall charger. not to the computer) it goes to the M boot screen. I can't get to any other screen to come up. When I hold the volume buttons down, I get "Cant start RSD Battery too low to flash". also, When I plug it in, The green LED lights up for a second then turns off as it goes to the Motorola screen. I can't turn it on either with just the battery. any Ideas?
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I had this problem just last night. I searched around xda and the internet, and came upon this: http://www.atrixforums.com/forum/mo...e-rsd-lite-flash-sbf-file-motorola-atrix.html
Give it a shot. If it doesn't turn on now, what's the worse that'll happen by trying this?
Just charge the battery and flash a SBF with RSDLite.
Make sure that you don't downgrade the ROM. Read sticky for more info about hardbricking risks.
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What SBF file do I need? Im not sure what is on the phone and I dont wanna Brick it if I can avoid it.
Go the latest SBF(the latest being 2.3.6/4.5.141 if you have an ATT atrix. Otherwise a full list of SBF files are here http://www.filefactory.com/f/89f588286a560e39/ ). Bricking occured when downgrading, so long as you upgrade or stay the same you should be fine.
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Wrong section.
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Thanks, admin?
I bit the bullet and did it. All was going good till my cat jumped on my computer desk and then failed saying something about switching to BP or something along those lines. Now I cant get the phone is RSD again
Was your battery charged enough? Sometimes if your battery is low it won't complete the flash.
What directory is your sbf file located at? Sometimes it won't work unless you put it directly in the C:\ drive.
Have you got the latest RSDlite?
What SBF did you flash?
Did you use the usb ports at the back of the pc?
If you can't get it in RSD again then I suggest giving it a charge for an hour or so and trying again later. Also check the md5 of the sbf file to check that the file is correct. Sometimes the 'Switch phone to BP Pass through mode' can be fixed just from trying a different usb port or computer.
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I bit the bullet and did it. All was going good till my cat jumped on my computer desk and then failed saying something about switching to BP or something along those lines. Now I cant get the phone is RSD again
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congratulations your mobile device is sucessfully bricked.
mine did[(do)will] the same, you have to take it to the assistance, i know what must be done, the assistance guys told me, but it can only be done by them.
so, you better hope you dont have the same problem as mine. [but if you got the error talking about didnt booting radio////failed to switch to BP(or some s**t like that) you probably have it, and only motorola can fix it.]
Edit: we know is the wrong section but only modetators can complain/report/warn. if we are not, lets just help the poor dude while the problem is unsolved.
guidoido004 said:
congratulations your mobile device is sucessfully bricked.
mine did[(do)will] the same, you have to take it to the assistance, i know what must be done, the assistance guys told me, but it can only be done by them.
so, you better hope you dont have the same problem as mine. [but if you got the error talking about didnt booting radio////failed to switch to BP(or some s**t like that) you probably have it, and only motorola can fix it.]
Edit: we know is the wrong section but only modetators can complain/report/warn. if we are not, lets just help the poor dude while the problem is unsolved.
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Have you googled the error? If you have, you'd find that it is a common error and I haven't seen any cases where they didn't eventually get fixed. OP just needs to get back in to RSD and have another go. The guys from 'assistance' don't know what they're doing, they'll take any reason to say that 'only motorola can fix it' because they don't know any better.
devize said:
Have you googled the error? If you have, you'd find that it is a common error and I haven't seen any cases where they didn't eventually get fixed. OP just needs to get back in to RSD and have another go. The guys from 'assistance' don't know what they're doing, they'll take any reason to say that 'only motorola can fix it' because they don't know any better.
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I wold haVE GOOGLED IT BUT RSD lite closed on me. I would get back into RSD but I can't get the phone back into it. I power on and hold the volume buttons and it doesnt do anything.
And also now while its stuck on the Motorola boot screen, Unlocked is missing from the corner like it use to be there.
Well after just fidiling around with it, it just started working. After about 45 minutes of just sitting there on the motorola screen, it booted up. Now its time to set it up all the way and put CM7 on it im guess.
I wasn't talking to you about googling the error, I was talking to the guy who had said that your phone was bricked when clearly it wasn't. The error would have been a fail at 'Switching Device to BP Pass Through' stage which does not mean you're device is bricked.
Anyway, good to see you fixed it. And the unlocked text goes away when you flash an SBF, that's normal. Get cm10 on it
I went back through and kind of got that after the fact haha. Im glad I got it fixed also too. Not I can get rid of the dreaded Iphone 4 :\ and be back where I belong. Is there a stable CM10 for it? I havent gotten to look around much yet since I was fixing the main problem.