On a scale of 1 - 10, how would you rate success after your phone has been bricked? I'm stuck at recovery mode after wiping my system clean my phone doesn't boot up. Before I purchase another phone, btw I haven't even had the phone for 3 weeks, anyway can it be fixed? I would hate to have just thrown nearly $200 away and waste more money if the problem can be resolved...
This is simple, BECAUSE you wiped the system, the phone won't boot up, it's perfect sense.You just need to flash a ROM or use KDZ to get your phone back to life again
thanks I just needed to make sure
Glad to help
Remember to flash PROPERLY. I bricked my phone thrice by using kdz
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so should i install a custom rom or kdz
Custom rom. Reccomend CM7 or openOptimus.
do you have a link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=946354
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So I'm a noob to this whole rom thing and i think that i am in over my head...
first i rooted using GingerBreak-v1.20.apk and not knowing what i was doing deleted some of the bloat (games). When I tried to do the bell gingerbread ota update i got the error. I tried to re install them but it didn't work.
So i decided to try to rom my phone.
First i unlocked using the Bell_Ihop from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261 which worked...
I then flashed a rom from ROM manager. It was ninja v0.3.4 (i think). It worked but i got a grey ? battery error... I didnt realize and my battery ran down. And while i cant be 100% sure yet i dont think my battery works any more (is that possible)
so i posted a Q on the forums and got an answer here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1251529
I borrowed a battery which let me turn on my phone but was still unknown...
I followed his answer and did a wipe. I decided i wanted alien so i flashed tanfer cmw recovery and flashed alien using that.
and I got stuck on the boot screen
so i did a wipe again and tried to reboot to bell stock2.2.2 and got an error so i did a reboot and i guess that the stock managed to reinstall the regular recovery..
and im still stuck on the reboot page...
so my question is I cant do anything cuz my battery doesnt work so i cant reflash cmw and I dont know anyone with an atrix to get a battery from (im pretty sure i outstayed my welcome in my local bell store, thats where i did all this)
Is there anyone in toronto that would fix this for me, i need this phone and i would pay for someone to do it for me cuz i cant do anything myself!! (And I'm a noob)
Thanks in advace...
first off, use this to charge your battery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDtv7qKf8tQ
after you get a charge on your battery again, go into CWM and clear Data/Cache, and then go into Advanced Options and clear your Dalvik Cache.
after that, flash any ROM and try to boot up. if you get stuck into a bootloop, post back here and let us know.
you'll need to flash CWM again using Fastboot, i suggest Romracer's which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
Thanks I will try this but I have a few questions
1. I did all this (the wipes and the flash) with tenfars, will this make a diff?
2. What tegrapart am I? (remember I cant boot into my phone to check through terminal emulator)
3. Now that I have been traumatized i just wanted to ask, on the alien site he says that it will take an unbearably long time to boot, how long should I expect to wait?
thanks for putting up with my "noobyness"
I don't know how to find your tegra part but it might take up to a few minutes the first time you boot. You'll know if you get a boot loop or not, the whole animation will do a major skip and start back from the start
And I know some people have problems with tenfar's. romracer's is just superior in my opinion.
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will i get messed up if i use the wrong tegra?
mypcool said:
will i get messed up if i use the wrong tegra?
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You shouldn't, as long as all you're doing is flashing ROMs with cwm. All else fails you can just flash a different one.
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I tried the battery trick and it caused the usb jacks on my computer to stop working... I also tried to charge with a different phone and it didnt work. I called Motorola and am getting a new battery...
Has anyone ever had this happen that a battery should stop getting a charge at all after a flash?
Buy a cheap wall charger and battery from ebay.
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Noob here, please bear with me:
Updated my I577 to ICS, then rooted it using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1806118
Worked like a charm, then I picked up ROM Toolbox Lite from PlayStore, which worked fine until I tried to change themes.
Somehow, it got to where boot was stuck at vendor logo. Unfortunately I did not Nandroid backup in time, but I was able to do a Kies backup before rooting, so not worry about the data loss at this time.
Used CWM5, did davlik & cache wipes, factory resets several times, no dice. No stock ROM available so I tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30444507&postcount=6
(flashed system tar through ODIN) Hanged at "system.img.ext4".
Here's where I'm at now:
-- Boot looping at second Samsung logo
-- ODIN 1.85 still reads device at port
-- Battery indicator visible when plugged in & power off.
-- Still able to get to cwm recovery 5.5.0.4
So, IS IT SOFT BRICKED OR HARD BRICKED?
Bonus Question: Is it unbrickable?
Any input or answers are GREATLY appreciated, and a fix will most likely be monetarily compensated through Paypal.
Black-wolf, j3r3goss, or shabbypenguin if you see this, your input is certainly appreciated as well!
Its soft bricked. Hard brick means there is no life at all and won't even power on (through software).
Any soft brick is unbrickable, the only nonunbrickable brick is a hard brick (which is rare)
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If you can get into Clockwork Mod Recovery still then select wipe data (Do this twice), then select whipe cache (Do this twice), next select factory reset (Do this twice), finally go back and select reboot system. This should unbrick your phone for you
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shimp208 said:
If you can get into Clockwork Mod Recovery still then select wipe data (Do this twice), then select whipe cache (Do this twice), next select factory reset (Do this twice), finally go back and select reboot system. This should unbrick your phone for you
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This.
If you can get into recovery you're only in shallow water
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Something's changed
THANKS so far for the input!
I was able to nandroid out of the loop, but now it's back to my original problem--it keeps booting to the "Rethink Possible" AT&T screen & freezing.
Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm gonna be outta luck until I get my hands on a legit Gingerbread Stock tar.
Did you whipe cache, whipe data and preform a factory reset like we suggested? Preforming a nandroid restore won't get you out of your phone hanging on the at&t logo.
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Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830i brick
hey there im a noob to all this but i registered to see if someone here could give me advice.
i tried to flash a new rom on my phone (see title) and it doesnt do a thing anymore...
i rooted it and tried to put Retribution beta_2 on it and itlooked to be working till it rebooted..
all i got was the startup screen with galaxy ace gt-s5830i.
i looked around and i found that i could use download mode and odin 1 click download to put in a new rom.
so i tried that and it looked to be working but it stalled at end of install and now it doesnt even turn on anymore...
HELP!!!
hope someone knows whats up and can give me some advice.
i hope i didnr hardbrick it like i saw in this thread...
Emil.warm said:
hey there im a noob to all this but i registered to see if someone here could give me advice.
i tried to flash a new rom on my phone (see title) and it doesnt do a thing anymore...
i rooted it and tried to put Retribution beta_2 on it and itlooked to be working till it rebooted..
all i got was the startup screen with galaxy ace gt-s5830i.
i looked around and i found that i could use download mode and odin 1 click download to put in a new rom.
so i tried that and it looked to be working but it stalled at end of install and now it doesnt even turn on anymore...
HELP!!!
hope someone knows whats up and can give me some advice.
i hope i didnr hardbrick it like i saw in this thread...
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Are you able to get into recovery mode? Did you flash a custom recovery such as TWRP or Clockwork Mod Recovery?
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shimp208 said:
Are you able to get into recovery mode? Did you flash a custom recovery such as TWRP or Clockwork Mod Recovery?
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Hi thanks for your response to my problem,
yes i flashed a custom recovery from clockwork and i rooted it. i cant get in to recovery mode.
after i did that i tried flashing custom rom like i said before but after reboot it didnt do anything.
i just got the startscreen and found that i could use download mode and odin to flash original rom.
i used 1 click downloader from Odin and it started to recover my rom,but at the end it stalled.
after that happened i couldnt do anything anymore.
i thought it was totally dead but i just saw that when i connect to my comp it says unknown device..
im an idiot for trying this stuff without the knowledge..it looked easy in descriptions
but i found different descriptions how to do it..
i cant put links in my posts yet cause i am new..
i used the 1st one.. but after that didnt work i found that other 1 and that is little different...
.android.gs/update-galaxy-ace-s5830i-retribution-gingerbread-2-3-6
.technostall.com/samsung-galaxy-ace-s5830i-installing-retribution-custom-rom-firmware
i hope i have given you enough info
greets Emil
Hmm today i found out smth new,i installed some samsung drivers and now my phone is recognized as a samsung android phone-android composite adb interface its says in device mananger on my laptop.
All Fixed!
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Did you whipe cache, whipe data and preform a factory reset like we suggested? Preforming a nandroid restore won't get you out of your phone hanging on the at&t logo.
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I did all that, but the one thing that finally nailed it was formatting my internal SD. I also formatted my external one, but I don't even think I put it back in the phone.
So, if anybody's reading this in the future, and you're still stuck after wiping the cache, wiping Davlik & performing factory reset,
FORMAT THE SD!
And flash this through Odin: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31765274&postcount=59
Huge thanks to j3r3goss!! :good::good::good:
Main Exhilarate thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926253
Soft bricked my galaxy s4
gagdude said:
Its soft bricked. Hard brick means there is no life at all and won't even power on (through software).
Any soft brick is unbrickable, the only nonunbrickable brick is a hard brick (which is rare)
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Hey, total noob here but Im having problems with my Galaxy S4 so I was on this thread looking for a fix.I have an AT&T Galaxy s4 (SGH-I337) and I just rooted my phone and installed clockworkmod recovery. I went to backup and then when I rebooted it freezes at the AT&T logo. Ive wiped data/factory reset, wiped caches, etc ive done everything and it freezes at the same spot. I have no ROMS as I had just rooted, just stock 4.2.2. Then I saw a vid on how to unroot/unbrick and it was working perfectly until it went to reboot.(I downloaded 4.2.2 firmware for my model phone) I used ODIN and it said pass then when it was rebooting it froze in the exact same spot (also instead of the normal bootup it still had the "custom" and an unlocked lock that Ive had since I rooted) and now I cant enter recovery mode. It starts booting but then freezes when the blue letters come on! Now even when I try to turn it on normally it freezes at the samsung logo (with unlocked lock and "custom")Please help! I would greatly appreciate it!
Hey guys, I made a mistake:
What happen was I was using Paranoid Jellybean on my phone but after the phone kept rebooting on a daily bases I decided to move back to ics.
This is where it went wrong, What happen was I removed everything including factory resets, roms, dav and etc but then my phone rebooted during have the installion without a rom and now I am stuck and I don't want to do anything that can damage more phone anymore. please anyone help.
U should be able to DL a ROM on your computer save to SD card then boot into recovery wipe install ROM then should be good to go. Good luck
Frijole Powered!!!!!
Your not screwed at all as long as your phone shows that you can just recover using a stock Odin flash
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Just boot back into recovery, wipe everything again, and install the ROM you had on your SD again. These things happen sometimes, and sometimes it's a bad ROM file download.
And if worse comes to worse, follow what Trevino07 said; download another copy of the ROM you wanted on your PC and move it to your phone via USB...wipe everything, then load the ROM as usual.
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My wife has the ascend 2. just recently it started randomly trying to do a firmware update, will get stuck on the white splash screen ( not fastboot ).
it will be fully charged and not turn on. its a pain to be honest. i have to put cwm and custom roms on it every other hour.....sometimes it sticks for about a day...im utterly lost....any help or just trash the phone?
Dont trash phone, its probably rom problem or make sure your using correct CMW for rom you install. Also. Try installing rom manager, has option to fix permissions might do the job. If not let me know i use custom rom that i can share with you and i have same phone, not any problems. Let me know!
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Hello,
I am new to this Moto E. It's actually a friend's phone and he though that since I have experience when it comes to LG G2 and S II Skyrocket SGH-i727, he decided to ask me to help him unbrick his device.
It's not actually bricked per se. It's actually stuck at the boot. It comes up to optimize the apps and start the android but it never ends. It's always stuck at Starting Android. I was able to get into TWRP recovery but I can't mount the USB. No matter the mode I place it, the usb is never detected. I can't find another way around to fix it. I was thinking about a clean factory reset from TWRP but I'd still like to get around with something.
Since USB is not working, can't get flash stock ROM to downgrade from lollipop 5.1.1 to 4.4.4 (that's pretty much what he wants, once the device is fixed).
FriedrichEngels said:
Hello,
I am new to this Moto E. It's actually a friend's phone and he though that since I have experience when it comes to LG G2 and S II Skyrocket SGH-i727, he decided to ask me to help him unbrick his device.
It's not actually bricked per se. It's actually stuck at the boot. It comes up to optimize the apps and start the android but it never ends. It's always stuck at Starting Android. I was able to get into TWRP recovery but I can't mount the USB. No matter the mode I place it, the usb is never detected. I can't find another way around to fix it. I was thinking about a clean factory reset from TWRP but I'd still like to get around with something.
Since USB is not working, can't get flash stock ROM to downgrade from lollipop 5.1.1 to 4.4.4 (that's pretty much what he wants, once the device is fixed).
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Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik cache?
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No, but he just told me he previously wiped pretty much everything through TWRP... I'll try it when I get to my pc and report back with results.
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sikoo1996 said:
Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik cache?
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Well I just tried it and nothing happens. Still the same thing
FriedrichEngels said:
Well I just tried it and nothing happens. Still the same thing
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U need data? if yes there is no way around it, if data not needed, flashing fastboot firmware via Fastboot or flashable zip of Stock ROM or any Custum ROMs via TWRP will boot up the phone, since phone is booting to twrp and bootloader, it can't be said bricked at all, the phone is in safe state, we can do anything if phone boots up to recovery,
Adarsh1998 said:
U need data? if yes there is no way around it, if data not needed, flashing fastboot firmware via Fastboot or flashable zip of Stock ROM or any Custum ROMs via TWRP will boot up the phone, since phone is booting to twrp and bootloader, it can't be said bricked at all, the phone is in safe state, we can do anything if phone boots up to recovery,
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hmmm ok then, I'll see if the data is there. Let's hope it is!! thank you for your help!!!