For some reason, when I go to flash a file in RSDLite 5.6, everything works until the program puts it into AP Fastboot. The program isn't able to recognize my phone and ends up displaying "The phone failed to switch to fastboot mode."
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Extra info - Win7 64x machine
I am having the same exact problem!! i was about to post a new thread when i found this.... hope someone can chime in and give us a heads up.
my problem is that i can only get windows to recognize my razr in bp flash SBF mode. it will not recognize my razr while in AP fastboot mode. no matter how many times i've tried. i have successfully flashed an sbf before.
since then i have removed and re downloaded the drivers just to be sure that i have the correct ones. thought it might be a usb cable so i switched it out along with multiple ports on the comp. i have no idea.
don't know if this helps but the only bootstrap i could use prior to bootlooping was razrbootstrap. cwmonboot would not work no matter what (which i had working once also) and i came from arctic rom where i also lost usb mode while booted. no options at all to connect to pc. thought that might have something to do with it.
i really hope this helps someone to point us in the right direction. if i don't find anything out tonight i am going to take it to verizon. thank you guys for all that you do!!
Kalvin
What a lengthy post haha. I think the problem may be that I was using my 64x laptop. Switched to my moms 32 and its made it much farther so far. *fingers crossed
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It was just about done, and I guess the battery got too low.....I'm screwed. It says it cant transfer because the battery is too low. Now im stuck in ap fastboot...
figured out my problem..... it wouldnt recognize my razr while in AP fastboot mode all because of me using a different cable. make sure you use the cable that came with the phone!! I thought i had the new cable but i was using an old one.
what a relief!! so that was my problem. if anyone experiences the same thing you know what to look for.
thanks XDA for somewhere to go to when i have a problem like this tho lol.
also have you tried to boot into AP fastboot then just hit the power button once. should just turn off the phone so that you can charge it on the wall charger for a while.
amberkalvin said:
figured out my problem..... it wouldnt recognize my razr while in AP fastboot mode all because of me using a different cable. make sure you use the cable that came with the phone!! I thought i had the new cable but i was using an old one.
what a relief!! so that was my problem. if anyone experiences the same thing you know what to look for.
thanks XDA for somewhere to go to when i have a problem like this tho lol.
also have you tried to boot into AP fastboot then just hit the power button once. should just turn off the phone so that you can charge it on the wall charger for a while.
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I'm seriously about to lose it. Since it made it partially through the process, my phones soft bricked. It doesn't charge. I need a factory cable.
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jimbub said:
I'm seriously about to lose it. Since it made it partially through the process, my phones soft bricked. It doesn't charge. I need a factory cable.
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Sorry to hear that, thankfully there's an easy mod if you have a sacrificial microUSB cable: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
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Sorry to hear that, thankfully there's an easy mod if you have a sacrificial microUSB cable: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
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Ive seen it... I sadly dont own a soldering iron. I might try and bs it..... hopefully I don't blow anything up.
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Ive seen it... I sadly dont own a soldering iron. I might try and bs it..... hopefully I don't blow anything up.
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Was hoping these were in stock, might be worth contacting them:
http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Factory-style-programming-cable-for-Motorola-FactCable.htm
Bought one a while back just in case.
Good luck getting it to charge!
WVULTRA said:
Was hoping these were in stock, might be worth contacting them:
http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Factory-style-programming-cable-for-Motorola-FactCable.htm
Bought one a while back just in case.
Good luck getting it to charge!
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Been there too :/ Decided to contact them. Hopefully they get back to me! I will most likely take it to verizon though. Are they good about their warrenties?
jimbub said:
Been there too :/ Decided to contact them. Hopefully they get back to me! I will most likely take it to verizon though. Are they good about their warrenties?
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I went through a situation of FCs with my first Razr that VZW nor Moto could diagnose, and local Verizon replaced it with no questions asked. But I'd only had it for 9 days. Was told VZW replacement period was 14 days; but I never confirmed it.
I was able to unroot/factory reset though before taking it in. Your's might be questionable unless you have a good relationship with the VZW dealer.
IMO, if your way past any warranty period, I'd hold out for a factory cable or get someone experienced to build you one via the post above.
Good luck!
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I went through a situation of FCs with my first Razr that VZW nor Moto could diagnose, and local Verizon replaced it with no questions asked. But I'd only had it for 9 days. Was told VZW replacement period was 14 days; but I never confirmed it.
I was able to unroot/factory reset though before taking it in. Your's might be questionable unless you have a good relationship with the VZW dealer.
IMO, if your way past any warranty period, I'd hold out for a factory cable or get someone experienced to build you one via the post above.
Good luck!
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I'd be willing to buy one from anybody on here.
Did you ever figure anything out? Or Try charging the way I suggested?
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amberkalvin said:
Did you ever figure anything out? Or Try charging the way I suggested?
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Well, this morning my dad took it in (since it was his) and switched back over to his blackberry. Verizon was nice enough to overnight him a replacement my conscience is clear for exams
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not if you've rooted, that voids the warranty & gives them an excuse to hide their corporate heajs in the sand, & force people to do without a full system backup b/c they don't have root…
also, it saves them fm having to support all the difftroms, patches, etc.
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This time I have really f***ed up guys. I really think this time I have actually bricked my Thunderbolt. I was on Bamf Remix 1.63 I believe and everything was running great. I was obviously rooted also. I was bored and decided to flash Protekks Battery Sipper Kernel. Right after I flashed it, the phone would not boot. I pulled the battery and booted up again and it got stuck in a boot loop. So after a few tries I finally got it to boot into the bootloader. I got into recovery and tried to flash a backup and it rebooted in the middle of restoring it. I tried that a few more times. I then let the battery die. Then I charged it up a lot and tried to power it on and got nothing. The screen will not even turn on. When plugged into my computer it sometimes vibrates and my computer detects it and then my computer makes the sound like it was disconnected. I think it is still stuck in the boot loop with the screen off though. BTW the charging light does light up when plugged in. I tried the stock and extended battery to make sure it was not a battery problem. I finally called up Verizon and after I told them it would not turn on he said he is shipping me a free replacement. I told them that after a OTA update the phone would not boot. He warned me that if there is any evidence that the phone was rooted or hacked, I would be charged the retail price for the phone. That is really the only thing I am scared of. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Sorry for the long post, I wanted to get in all the details that I could.
Thanks
Adam
Try putting it in download mode and flash back to gongerbread using odin
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srkoza said:
Try putting it in download mode and flash back to gongerbread using odin
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Wtf? This isn't Samsung. OP do you bootloop in bootloader? I recommend you go to the irc and give them any info you can.. you will probably end up flashing a stock ruu through the bootloader but first go to irc.
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Thanks for the quick reply! How would I get into download mode. And I was on froyo before.. Shouldn't I download a froyo based rom?
Yeah I did not think we have Odin for HTC phones, and I already have the stock zip file on my MicroSD card but my screen will not turn on at all. I can not get into anything. Any advice?
Talk to jcase. Hopefully you have some adb knowledge.
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Yeah I did not think we have Odin for HTC phones, and I already have the stock zip file on my MicroSD card but my screen will not turn on at all. I can not get into anything. Any advice?
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Go to irc.. someone with actual Dev experience can help you there try #thunderbolt
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OK thanks for the replies. Do you think the Verizon warranty center people will actually go to the trouble of getting it to work and then charge me full retail for a new one if they see it is rooted. I already have the stock zip on the SD card so when it does boot up, it will return everything to stock. I have read online that some people have been charged retail because there phones have been rooted but most of them have gotten away with with it..
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OK thanks for the replies. Do you think the Verizon warranty center people will actually go to the trouble of getting it to work and then charge me full retail for a new one if they see it is rooted. I already have the stock zip on the SD card so when it does boot up, it will return everything to stock. I have read online that some people have been charged retail because there phones have been rooted but most of them have gotten away with with it..
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I think you're almost certainly fine. It's a lot of work and time for big red over one phone. Plus, your etf is less expensive than a replacement device
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thanks for the response man. etf= early termination fee? I might not have said in my original post but they are sending me a free replacement device. The rep on the phone specifically said that if they find my phone to be rooted or hacked, that I will be charged around 629$ for the refurb replacement. I really cannot afford that (
Call back and tell em you accidentally dropped it out of moving vehicle and that it was run over 5 times...and that it was raining outside. Then pay your deductible.
ddgarcia05 said:
Call back and tell em you accidentally dropped it out of moving vehicle and that it was run over 5 times...and that it was raining outside. Then pay your deductible.
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I decided that if I ever bricked, that I'd post on here asking what horrible things I should do previous to sending it in to get a replacement. Then post pics. XD
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Please check out this thread when you get a moment, might help the community and we would greatly appreciate it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130407
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I got out of a bootloop on my friend's Insipre 4G (which is very similar to the TB) by mounting the microSD on my computer, and then putting a stock ROM on it. I had to rename the stock ROM PG98IMG (PG05IMG on Thunderbolt), and flash it through the bootloader, but it did work.
Thanks for the post man but the Thunderbolt does not show any signs of life at all besides the flashing orange LED at the top blinking and the computer detecting it on and off every 5 minutes. The stock zip is already on the SD card so when it finally boots up it will flash and hopefully Verizon won't charge me out the @ss for a replacement.
powered on! for a second...
UPDATE: I just had it hooked up to my laptop and it booted on the the white HTC screen and I almost had a heart attaack :O but then it powered off and wont come back on. FML
itsdubai said:
UPDATE: I just had it hooked up to my laptop and it booted on the the white HTC screen and I almost had a heart attaack :O but then it powered off and wont come back on. FML
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how long have you had your phone and what hardware revision was it? did you try to run the RUU yet?
i think some people just got a batch of faulty phones because this doesn't seem to affect many.
I highly doubt verizon is going to receive your broken phone and boot it up and it will magically work. The only way it will auto-update is if they boot it into HBOOT. If they somehow just power it on it won't automatically apply anything. Keep that in mind. But I really wouldn't worry too much about it. If they charge you call them and tell them wtf I wasn't rooted. I don't even know what that means lol.
I have had the phone since the very first days it was released. Another slight annoying thing I have had happening prior is the glue on the screen has not been holding it down very well and and I can easily get a nail under it. And it wont let me do anything. I have a Droid X as a backup for now but I miss my beast
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I have had the phone since the very first days it was released. Another slight annoying thing I have had happening prior is the glue on the screen has not been holding it down very well and and I can easily get a nail under it. And it wont let me do anything. I have a Droid X as a backup for now but I miss my beast
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that's what im starting to think as htc has since released a revision 2 thunderbolt. i know as i just bought mine a few weeks ago. im wondering if the faulty phones were version 1 phones and have since been fixed. i also do not experience the high battery drain most of you guys do either.
Guys my note seems to be in the most dreadful state possible. It wont turn on, I can't put it in recovery, when I connect it to the computer I can hear a sound signalling it does recognize something, but adb cant find the device (seems like it turns off).
This happened after trying to put the cwm beta4 recovery.img , nobody except me is responsible, I was trying to put flash the image, after running the command however it dint seem to me it made any difference after trying to boot to recovery so, I tried running the command again, except this time, it gave me an error which said it ran out of space or disk space, I tried restarting and it wont turn on.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Please move this to the correct forum.
This forum is for development
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Return it and they'll give you a new one. They cant tell you bricked if it won't turn on.
G~Note "nuff said"
alperin1 said:
Please move this to the correct forum.
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I'm sorry I wasn't aware that this wasnt the right place.
N3RD420 said:
Return it and they'll give you a new one. They cant tell you bricked if it won't turn on.
G~Note "nuff said"
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Agreed, except I want to try and see if it can be recovered, else I'll get it switched.
Did u try to go to download mode by holding down. Then wait 15 sec press up even if it doesnt have anything on screen and see if odin sees it?
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u921333 said:
Did u try to go to download mode by holding down. Then wait 15 sec press up even if it doesnt have anything on screen and see if odin sees it?
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Okay just noticed this, in the device manager it now says QHUSB_DLOAD, I'm guessing this is some form of download state, I have odin open, how do I know if its recognizing it?
It would show a yellow square with a com port.... But i think that error is very bad one of our devs in skyrocket got it and it was return phone or jtag service online.
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you might have had a typo in your last flash...
if you typed mmcblk0p2 instead of mmcblk0p22, then it would explain the out of space, and possibly also the boot error...
u921333 said:
It would show a yellow square with a com port.... But i think that error is very bad one of our devs in skyrocket got it and it was return phone or jtag service online.
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Odin doesn't show anything, I mean I doesn't show the yellow exclamation mark.
braway said:
you might have had a typo in your last flash...
if you typed mmcblk0p2 instead of mmcblk0p22, then it would explain the out of space, and possibly also the boot error...
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Very likely thats what I did, is there anyway out?
i_max2k2 said:
Very likely thats what I did, is there anyway out?
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probably not, or only with lots of effort
returning it is probably the fastest
I do understand, but since I'm a total noob on android, .and that nothing else could possible go any wrong, I would sure like to try.
drop 5 bucks on a jig
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UUCT0Y/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details
or similar.
this wont reset the counter like on certain devices but it will put the sgh-i717 at&t note into download mode just by plugging it in
then flash back to stock with odin. all of the info to do that is located in this forum
edit.. alot of these guys are right though, if it doesnt react to being plugged in or turned on no matter what, nobody in the at&t store will figure it out, they will mark it defective and give you a new one
Honestly......best idea.... return it. I'd actually suggest leaving it alone, on the off chance you got Odin to recognize it, and maybe halfway fixed the Note, it might then look to whomever you return it to that you broke it somehow. Basically the fact it won't turn on at all is to your benefit at this point.
My phone will eat your Apple!
brittoking said:
Honestly......best idea.... return it. I'd actually suggest leaving it alone, on the off chance you got Odin to recognize it, and maybe halfway fixed the Note, it might then look to whomever you return it to that you broke it somehow. Basically the fact it won't turn on at all is to your benefit at this point.
My phone will eat your Apple!
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I agree. Return. Been there twice with an infuse and skyrocket. No questions asked...swap out. I always say I'm never getting involved in Modding my phone after an incident like that. Am I the only who says that?
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brittoking said:
Honestly......best idea.... return it. I'd actually suggest leaving it alone, on the off chance you got Odin to recognize it, and maybe halfway fixed the Note, it might then look to whomever you return it to that you broke it somehow. Basically the fact it won't turn on at all is to your benefit at this point.
My phone will eat your Apple!
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I kind of just thought about that, I'll leave it as is, and get it swapped.
ryanbmw51 said:
I agree. Return. Been there twice with an infuse and skyrocket. No questions asked...swap out. I always say I'm never getting involved in Modding my phone after an incident like that. Am I the only who says that?
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Yep will do this.
ryanbmw51 said:
I always say I'm never getting involved in Modding my phone after an incident like that. Am I the only who says that?
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I, for one, couldn't wait to tear into my new $300 gem
As for the brick, i concur, returning it at this point would be best. I hate using dd to flash things, one typo can screw up the entire device.
if it turns on at all... you may risk getting it found to be modded. just sayin.
if i were you. Id find an old ac adapter cut the wires and seperate. then zap the prongs where the battery connects. in my experience, old laptop chargers work the best. be sure to cut the end off of the cord that plugs into the laptop. the brick will protect you from fatal or even harmful shock so dont worry.
just my .02
I agree. Mine was rooted the day I got it.
If you do decide to root the replacement, reading is your friend. Read, read again, and read it a third time. Then don't be afraid to read it more if necessary, and a you're doing the steps.
Well on the way to my fairytale!
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probably not, or only with lots of effort
returning it is probably the fastest
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It happened as you had said missed a 2
ashies7 said:
I agree. Mine was rooted the day I got it.
If you do decide to root the replacement, reading is your friend. Read, read again, and read it a third time. Then don't be afraid to read it more if necessary, and a you're doing the steps.
Well on the way to my fairytale!
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I had it rooted, it was while trying to install cwm, I did read it a few times, perhaps needs more reading, I had tinkered with iphones quite a bit, but I never had a bricked device ever in like 4 years, I never thought it could goto a state where the only real way to bring it back would it be to connect to a jtag device.
Hey,
I didn't feel like going through the trouble of buying the Motorola factory charger or whatever you need to charge the phone when it said *battery low* *cannot program* when trying to use the RSD program (might have spelled it wrong) to restore to factory settings. My battery must have been low and in the middle of the restore, it stopped and now Im unable to get to either recovery or charge it.
I had insurance luckily so I just got my galaxy nexus back and should be to me tomorrow. Do yall think someone will buy this phone like that? i have 2 nandroid backups on there so it's probably not safe to sale with that stuff accessible.. smh.. that's why i liked the samsung galaxy s and galaxy s 2 devices because you can use Odin which makes the phones virtually unbrickable. The phone's in PERFECT condition. Would be nice if there was a way around that man
how much? just curiosity...
That's why its always recommened to have full charge when rooting or installing custom rom. I hope someone here in the forum can help you solve this issue.
you can make one looks like here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
if you want to give it a go, will cost you a $3 cable if you mess it up, and will gain you a $300 phone if you do it right.
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how much? just curiosity...
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I realized i can't sale it because I have nandroid backups within the phone and they'll still be there i think...
romdroid. said:
That's why its always recommened to have full charge when rooting or installing custom rom. I hope someone here in the forum can help you solve this issue.
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Yeah but you know when you're a frequent flasher and are sure it only takes about 10 percent batter at the most, you don't charge it to the max but I just made a boo boo by not reading the part that said *You must be running a the rom already before flashing the update portion*.. that caused the bootloop..
Thanks a lot though. You're right
Shinare said:
you can make one looks like here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403100
if you want to give it a go, will cost you a $3 cable if you mess it up, and will gain you a $300 phone if you do it right.
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imma try to get these tools.. i definitely have some spare USB cables in my room.. just getting the phone open and stuff is the issue. Not that tech savy lol
You don't need to open your phone
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Get phone in to ap fastboot and go down to bp tools and then press vol+.
Phone should reboot in to a sort of recovered state (last firmware that was on phone) and allow you to charge up.
Once 100% retry flashing.
I screwed my phone several times already and thought I wouldnt recover. Through some chat help have always recovered. Same for my Charge after a few times you figure out all the tricks.
You can recover it. I've done it twice
If you check out my post it shows you a alternative and easier way charge your phone again and make it back to stock rom and no root. Then you can sell your phone for a better price or just keep it!
Ill give you $150 for it...
Ill trade you a Samsung Charge for it. Seriously though you should be able to recover.
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Get phone in to ap fastboot and go down to bp tools and then press vol+.
Phone should reboot in to a sort of recovered state (last firmware that was on phone) and allow you to charge up.
Once 100% retry flashing.
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It takes me to this message every time. anyone else got this before? see attached
Yup I had that before. Happened to me when rsding to an earlier version and the battery went low before it finished. Gonna have to use a factory cable or replace it.
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orcsbane13 said:
Yup I had that before. Happened to me when rsding to an earlier version and the battery went low before it finished. Gonna have to use a factory cable or replace it.
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what if the whit light is showing after plugging it up to a computer with a different USB?
hmmm i wonder if it's charging???? see attached
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what if the whit light is showing after plugging it up to a computer with a different USB?
hmmm i wonder if it's charging???? see attached
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nope, left mine like that for 12 hrs and it never charged any. Won't charge unless you can get into recovery and can't get into recovery because webtop is messed up.
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I get that on mine when I let it die completely (after cocking up flashing!) ... what I do is connect it to pc...get solid white light..... press up/down/power.....boots to the other screen (cant remember what its called).....gives the option for normal boot......press up to get into normal moto boot logo..... VERY QUICKLY replug to a desktop charger.... Seems to work for me! I really must try reflashing with a clean rom!
There are several ways to recover from bricked because of dead low battery. Im sure there are easier but Im just gonna post a few.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
More expensive way for a cable but may want to have for future.
http://shop.teamblackhat.info/
More info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14832871&postcount=45
Thats all Im going to post for now but I have faith that it can be recovered. Dont sell unless desperate and dont want to deal with it. Send it to me and Ill try to recover and if not I can give you one of my Droid charges while I get it back up.
So, I rooted my GS3 with this method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEVD...ure=plpp_video
Everything went perfectly and was successfully rooted.
I then made a backup of my phone.
I tried installing a rom and it had errors, so I restored my phone and it was successfully stored and hit restart phone.
Thats where I am at now. The phone shut off, and wont turn back on. I have it on the charger and there is no charging light, nothing. tried pulling the battery, entering recovery. Nothing works.
I have no idea what happened or how to get my phone back on.
Please help.
Thank you.
Sounds like someone installed an International rom.
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if you did flash an international rom, did you follow all the suggestions in this thread during your recovery attempt:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727443
The seriousness of your issue will depend on if you can enter download mode or not. Do not have USB connected, pull the battery and put back in to make sure it is truly off, instead of some hung state of "on". Hold Power, Volume Down, and Home at the same time, for several seconds to try to enter download mode (see http://youtu.be/0BJlfbZNB-I).
If you can get in, you should be all set.
Then open up Odin (http://samsung-updates.com/Odin307.zip)
Connect USB, it should light up a "COM" port recognizing the phone as connected.
Find the proper stock tar file for your carrier:
AT&T: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737848
Sprint: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737859
T-Mobile: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737855
Note, the sprint one also has a video link to similar instructions.
If you can't enter download mode, however, that's a potentially tough situation. You may research "jigs" that I'm not familiar with, or you may consider a warranty return, an often debated morally questionable move.
Let me save you some time..
As said, see if you can get into download although if no charging is happening i'm 99% sure theres no download mode either. In which case plug it in your PC. If it appears in device manager as QHSUSB DLOAD then let me be the first to say,
WELCOME TO BRICKTOWN. sorry but you look like another unfortunate person to see how easy these ****ers brick. my deepest sympathies
Also, in reference to the jig, unfortunately does nothing in this situation. I feel confident though that somebody will eventually find a way to unbrick with the Qhsusb dload brick because i saw after hours of looking into this it has been done with other phones. just my 2 cents
So, what I ended up doing is returning the phone to best buy for an exchange.
Now I know to pay attention and not install international roms anymore. Lol
Thanks for all the help though.
Oh, and my phone was not able to enter download mode, so I was assuming I was screwed for the most part.
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Great, another XDA user not reading then frauding BestBuy.
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itszcharlie said:
Great, another XDA user not reading then frauding BestBuy.
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True but best buy / Samsung will not go out of business because of this...sounds like a newb not doing his homework vs. someone who knew what they were doing , taking a risk and then returning it. Hardly fraud when there was no intention of taking the risk.
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accordex said:
True but best buy / Samsung will not go out of business because of this...sounds like a newb not doing his homework vs. someone who knew what they were doing , taking a risk and then returning it. Hardly fraud when there was no intention of taking the risk.
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The risk is always there when you start flashing roms. Especially for script kiddies that cant be bothered to read directions.
itszcharlie said:
Great, another XDA user not reading then frauding BestBuy.
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Man y'all is too funny talking about this fraud crap... lmao who cares????? look around guy, these company don't give a **** about you. But if it bothers you that much call the cops or the F.B.I. Hell since we went that far let call the C.I.A
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cwalker29 said:
Man y'all is too funny talking about this fraud crap... lmao who cares????? look around guy, these company don't give a **** about you. But if it bothers you that much call the cops or the F.B.I. Hell since we went that far let call the C.I.A
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These company's do care, and why do you think they lock bootloader and constantly patch to prevent rooting , samsung has been easy so far but, given enough returns and complains from retailers they will change their policy. Just a matter of time.
Samsung also implemented flash counter just for this reason.
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Couple things. People work for Best Buy and anytime you defraud them it will impact the company, the profitability, and employees. It will also eventually impact people who have honest claims and get put through the ringer because of previous claims.
Secondly, this phone isn't any easier to "brick" than any other phone when you flash a rom, modem, etc. that wasn't made for it. Would you try to chip your Ford's engine with a chip meant for a GMC truck? Would you flash the BIOS of your Dell laptop with the BIOS image for an HP? That is how people need to consider the variants, as if they are from separate companies, not only separate products.
These threads just get under me. How do you not read every single sticky on each board.
Hmmm, wonder why Verizon got the idea to lock the bootloader?
so I odined my vzw note II back to stock using the alt tar package. It booted up fine, but then I rebooted back into recovery (stock android) and stupidly, or curiously... flashed the CWM Touch 6.0.32 recovery image in recovery, it attempted to reboot, but nothing. All I'm getting is a dim red light flashing everytime I try to boot my phone up. I've switched out the battery and still the same. btw, my battery was full when I did this. Potential brick? Or should I try to use a usb jig to get it it to boot back up and go into download mode?
ztotherad said:
so I odined my vzw note II back to stock using the alt tar package. It booted up fine, but then I rebooted back into recovery (stock android) and stupidly, or curiously... flashed the CWM Touch 6.0.32 recovery image in recovery, it attempted to reboot, but nothing. All I'm getting is a dim red light flashing everytime I try to boot my phone up. I've switched out the battery and still the same. btw, my battery was full when I did this. Potential brick? Or should I try to use a usb jig to get it it to boot back up and go into download mode?
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This is most likely a brick but possibly just a soft brick. I did the same thing on my S3 and was able to get it back up and running using a jig and flashing the stock kernel in Odin.
Can you get to Download mode at all or does it just flash the red LED when you try to boot into recovery? I would at least try the jig before having it JTAG'ed cause there is at least a chance it'll work.
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shangrila500 said:
This is most likely a brick but possibly just a soft brick. I did the same thing on my S3 and was able to get it back up and running using a jig and flashing the stock kernel in Odin.
Can you get to Download mode at all or does it just flash the red LED when you try to boot into recovery? I would at least try the jig before having it JTAG'ed cause there is at least a chance it'll work.
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yeah, it doesn't turn on at all. Even being plugged in. It just flashes a red light for like a second and that's it. I can't get it to turn on for the life of me.
edit: any chance I can borrow that jig? lol.
You sure can, I made it myself. If you have any soldering skills I can send you the instructions if you would rather not wait on it to come thru the mail or if you live in Alabama I will meet you and give it to you.
There is also a page on XDA about USB jigs that has a list of people willing to loan theirs out, there may be one near you if you would rather not wait.
Its easy to make them though, all you have to do is have basic soldering skills, a micro USB end, and a resistor (which I believe was a 300k resistor, its been so long since I made it though the value could be off. I still have the supplies to make 10+ more though so I could look to make sure if you did go the route of making your own).
Either way its up to you, I can send you mine thru the mail or if you're game to build one I can send you the instructions.
Also the jig may not work, it depends on how badly bricked you are, but it worked so me when I did the exact same thing and had the exact same problem on my S3. You may have to get it JTAG'ed though, which I really hope you're able to fix it with a jig.
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I'm going to bite my tongue about you flashing in stock recovery since you have learned your lesson with your situation at hand
You can order one from mobiletechvideos.com which is a reputable place. It's only $8. It says galaxy s, but it's listed under note2 products
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
BoostedB18C said:
I'm going to bite my tongue about you flashing in stock recovery since you have learned your lesson with your situation at hand
You can order one from mobiletechvideos.com which is a reputable place. It's only $8. It says galaxy s, but it's listed under note2 products
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
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$8 dollars is a little high seeing as how you can buy then for 5 on Amazon. Considering what goes into it $5 is almost to high.
And biting your tongue about flashing in stock recovery? If it had been the recovery zip he would have been fine, I've even made the mistake of flashing a tar.md5 in my recovery when I knew better simply because I wasnt paying enough attention to it because I wasnt at home and eas downloading it on my phone. It's an easy mistake to make of you're on the move and arent on a computer, especially when considering the TWRP update is either tar.md5 for Odin or a zip for your recovery. I thought I had seen CWM recovery flashable zips around on here but I may have been wrong seeing as how I dont use CWM anymore and dont keep up with it.
Also jigs are fairly easy to make seeing as all you have to have is a micro USB end and a 300k resistor. I bought the micro usb end that came with a shell for a cord and while there is a hole on one end it still looks better than having a hacked wire hanging around.
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Here are some pictures of the one I made. The hole on the end is because the shell was made for a wire to go out to another USB end but I just used the shell for this instead of having a hacked cord lying around or a wire running out of the opening and connecting to the resistor outside of plastic shell. Having the resistor out of the shell would be easier to short circuit whereas it is completely stable in the shell.
The little piece you see in the opening is the very end of the 300k resistor that is covered with heat shrink tubing so none of the metal is exposed. I'd you want to make your own you can follow the instructions from here:
http://galaxys2root.com/galaxy-s2-hacks/how-to-make-a-usb-jig-for-your-galaxy-s2/
The male micro USB ends I used I got off of eBay:
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=390363690475
They come from China and take a while to get here but you could just as easily get them from Digi Key
Also the 300k resistors I got off of Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/E-Projects-30...1369827313&sr=8-2&keywords=300k+watt+resistor
If you still want to use mine I will send it to you no questions asked, just let me know.
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BoostedB18C said:
I'm going to bite my tongue about you flashing in stock recovery since you have learned your lesson with your situation at hand
You can order one from mobiletechvideos.com which is a reputable place. It's only $8. It says galaxy s, but it's listed under note2 products
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
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lol, what's sad is i should've known not to try it. I'm nit new to android, and that was honestly a stupid noob choice. but thanks! yeah I'm definitely looking into buying one, does anyone know per chance if i need one exactly for the note 2 or can i just buy one for any phone and try it that way?
EDIT: hopefully i can get one for cheap and super quick, i definitely feel naked without a phone on me, lol
EDITdos: and I bought a jig. it should be at my house by friday. at least let's hope it is. I'm ready to get this bad boy back and working again.
ztotherad said:
lol, what's sad is i should've known not to try it. I'm nit new to android, and that was honestly a stupid noob choice. but thanks! yeah I'm definitely looking into buying one, does anyone know per chance if i need one exactly for the note 2 or can i just buy one for any phone and try it that way?
EDIT: hopefully i can get one for cheap and super quick, i definitely feel naked without a phone on me, lol
EDITdos: and I bought a jig. it should be at my house by friday. at least let's hope it is. I'm ready to get this bad boy back and working again.
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When I was messing with jigs there were a few different ones but as long as it is made for Samsung or works on Samsung products you should be fine.
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shangrila500 said:
When I was messing with jigs there were a few different ones but as long as it is made for Samsung or works on Samsung products you should be fine.
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yeah, I hope to god it works though. Do you know of any JTAG/sd card unbrick for the i605? I emailed the seller about JTAG on the note II and he said it wasn't possible, they're using the sd card method, which I can't seem to find anything on unfortunately.
also, here's what i ordered:
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yeah, I hope to god it works though. Do you know of any JTAG/sd card unbrick for the i605? I emailed the seller about JTAG on the note II and he said it wasn't possible, they're using the sd card method, which I can't seem to find anything on unfortunately.
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That one should work fine, if it doesnt let me know and I will try to find you one that does.
As for the SD card JTAG I dont think that has worked since the 4.0 update on Samsung phones, I may be wrong on that though because I never messed with it. The only surefire way I know to JTAG a Samsung phone is to either buy a JTAG, which is around $150 and is called a RIFF box, or to send it to MobileTechVideos and get him to do it for $60.
There is a thread on XDA about using an SD card to JTAG an international S3 but im unsure if the software you had to load on the card is out for the Note 2.
The downside to doing it yourself is you have to take the phone apart and solder the wires to the JTAG contacts on the MoBo, on some phones you can make a piece out of breadboard so you dont have to solder the wires to the contact points on the MoBo but I dont know if you can do that with the Note 2.
If you went the route of getting it JTAG'ed you definitely need to send it to MobileTechVideos, he has been doing this for quite a while and is very very good at what he does.
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shangrila500 said:
That one should work fine, if it doesnt let me know and I will try to find you one that does.
As for the SD card JTAG I dont think that has worked since the 4.0 update on Samsung phones, I may be wrong on that though because I never messed with it. The only surefire way I know to JTAG a Samsung phone is to either buy a JTAG, which is around $150 and is called a RIFF box, or to send it to MobileTechVideos and get him to do it for $60.
There is a thread on XDA about using an SD card to JTAG an international S3 but im unsure if the software you had to load on the card is out for the Note 2.
The downside to doing it yourself is you have to take the phone apart and solder the wires to the JTAG contacts on the MoBo, on some phones you can make a piece out of breadboard so you dont have to solder the wires to the contact points on the MoBo but I dont know if you can do that with the Note 2.
If you went the route of getting it JTAG'ed you definitely need to send it to MobileTechVideos, he has been doing this for quite a while and is very very good at what he does.
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Yeah, hopefully I won't have to go that route, but if I do I'm planning on sending it to mobo, and hopefully can get it back rather quickly. Guess we'll find out tomorrow... Which sucks, but what can you do? Hopefully, if you had the same problem on the s3 and a jig worked for you then it'll work for my note 2. Honestly I don't see how the hell flashing a recovery zip in stock recovery could brick me. I've never ever heard of it doing that.
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Yeah, hopefully I won't have to go that route, but if I do I'm planning on sending it to mobo, and hopefully can get it back rather quickly. Guess we'll find out tomorrow... Which sucks, but what can you do? Hopefully, if you had the same problem on the s3 and a jig worked for you then it'll work for my note 2. Honestly I don't see how the hell flashing a recovery zip in stock recovery could brick me. I've never ever heard of it doing that.
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Well I flashed the recovery img, that bricked me immediately. I rebooted the recovery and thats when I figured out how bad I screwed up. Hopefully this will work for you, these suckers are hard to hard brick so I'm crossing my fingers that the jig will get you up and running.
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Well I flashed the recovery img, that bricked me immediately. I rebooted the recovery and thats when I figured out how bad I screwed up. Hopefully this will work for you, these suckers are hard to hard brick so I'm crossing my fingers that the jig will get you up and running.
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yeah, hopefully I can get it up and running. because I've honestly tried everything I can think of to revive the damned thing, lol
EDIT: just to update ya'll, got the JTAG today, and it didn't work. It acts like it's trying to work, but doesn't power on the phone just shows the same damned red led light... damn. now I gotta get some jtag work.