Hi guys.
I usually can fix my mistakes but this time I'm stumped. I think I bricked my evo but I don't know if its soft brick or a hard brick. Based on the other posts online mine doesn't really match up.
Here's what I did,
It was late and i was doing a restore on a miui rom through my clockworkmod recovery and it looked to be stuck at the begining for over an hour which is a really long time so i pulled the battery in the middle.
Not smart but my phone came back on and i tried a few backups and it kept happening but i decided to pull the battery one last time and just flash something new but
This time it wouldnt come back on. Eek!
This is what it does,
It will onlyy power on if you plug it in and then press all the buttons. It will boot past the htc logo and then go to the begining of the miui boot animation and stops.
It will not get into fastboot or recovery by holding power and vol down, nothing happens. When you plug it in. The red light comes on for a few seconds then turns off so it wont charge either.
Im really stumped guys. I tried the hard brick guide
Here.
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...k-guide-hard-brick-only-wont-turn-charge.html. and that didnt do anything.
HELP!!!
So, you cannot get into the bootloader screen at all, yet it does boot if you press all 3 buttons? I would pull the battery and let it sit for a while, The other thing I would do is leave the battery out, and plug it into a Windows PC, and see what devices show up. (Particularly within the first 5 seconds, just watch the device manager or the "new devices" screen to see what's showing up)
I would try
Code:
adb reboot recovery
That might get you into recovery in which you can do a superwipe and then flash a working rom.
If it doesnt try
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adb reboot bootloader
then flash an ruu.
It does show up as something when i plugged it in when windows tried to install drivers and ive taken the battery out like a hundred times but no success.
As far as adb method i wasnt finding a clear way to perform that. Is there a walkthrough that you recomend i try?
And thanks for responding guys
fixed!!!!
guys i fixed my phone!!! iTzLOLtrain thank you so much!
by using this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590800
my phone is back on and i cannot beleive it didnt find it sooner!!!!
i hope this thread helps other users!:victory:
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Hi guys,
I figured I'll post again here since I think I bricked my phone.... I was trying to install Eugene's Vibrant6.zip and I got stuck on the Vibrant Logo with Samsung at the bottom. I tried to reset with both volume buttons and power button and got to grey battery and nothing else...
What I did prior to this was I formatted system and data on the recovery screen as per some posts here and it would just boot into a loop. Windows won't recognize a device and it just shows grey battery image and it doesn't seem to be charging. Anyone can help me?
EDIT:
Out and in the battery, plugged in to USB and it just loads the battery image and it's all grey color as if fully discharged and just stuck on it. Device is also not found in my system so I can't do any adb commands. If I just reset it without the cable it would just sit on the Samsung boot loop. Anything I can do?
UPDATE: Ok, some good news! I heard the sound as it connected via USB, I can see the 2 drives, but they read as Removable Disk and I can't access them...
adb reboot recovery or download
error: device not found
What if simply format the drives via Windows right click menu? Will that do any good or bad? What are my options here? Any help will be appreciated!
UPDATE: Well... looks like this is pretty much a dead phone.... I right clicked and selected Format in My Computer and it just says There is no disk in Driver F: Insert a disk and try again.
Can I a mount an image somehow via MagicISO? Or is there something simpler that I just can't figure out?
Again, thanks for your help!
Thanks.
Has anyone experienced this or am I the only one?
M5devil said:
Has anyone experienced this or am I the only one?
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Sorry I have never heard of this or witnessed it while flashing anything to my device. Obviously the battery screen signifies that the phone is off but is in charging mode and hitting the power button will boot the device up. (I'm sure you already know of this). Never heard of it being stuck at that screen after flashing. Hopefully you can get this solved soon. Good luck
M5devil said:
Hi guys,
I figured I'll post again here since I think I bricked my phone.... I was trying to install Eugene's Vibrant6.zip and I got stuck on the Vibrant Logo with Samsung at the bottom. I tried to reset with both volume buttons and power button and got to grey battery and nothing else...
What I did prior to this was I formatted system and data on the recovery screen as per some posts here and it would just boot into a loop. Windows won't recognize a device and it just shows grey battery image and it doesn't seem to be charging. Anyone can help me?
EDIT:
Out and in the battery, plugged in to USB and it just loads the battery image and it's all grey color as if fully discharged and just stuck on it. Device is also not found in my system so I can't do any adb commands. If I just reset it without the cable it would just sit on the Samsung boot loop. Anything I can do?
UPDATE: Ok, some good news! I heard the sound as it connected via USB, I can see the 2 drives, but they read as Removable Disk and I can't access them...
adb reboot recovery or download
error: device not found
What if simply format the drives via Windows right click menu? Will that do any good or bad? What are my options here? Any help will be appreciated!
UPDATE: Well... looks like this is pretty much a dead phone.... I right clicked and selected Format in My Computer and it just says There is no disk in Driver F: Insert a disk and try again.
Can I a mount an image somehow via MagicISO? Or is there something simpler that I just can't figure out?
Again, thanks for your help!
Thanks.
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Slow down for a second. Your phone is definitely not bricked. Ive been over the edge, and been able to bring my phone back to life.
To clarify, you flashed vibrant6.zip through clockwork mod, and then the phone got stuck on the samsung S? How long did you let it sit there?
It sounds like just your ROM is messed up.
Are you able to "get into recovery"? Holding both volume buttons while you power on the phone, without it being plugged into usb.
Do you have Odin? And have you ever used it?
Its totally frustrating when your phone gets messed up and you don't know what to do.
I flashed the stock ROM via Odin and then wanted to install Vibrant6.zip. For that I entered into a recovery mode via Clockwork and as someone in the other thread advised, I formatted system and also data, don't recall exactly. Then it looped to a standard recovery mode and I just rebooted the phone. This is where it got stuck... Vibrant in the center and Samsung at the bottom of the screen. To test it I left it like that from night till this morning. In the morning I woke up it was on the same boot screen.
Before that at night, after seeing it hand at the boot, I held both volume keys and power, waited for it to reboot, and immediately it showed a circular progress bar, but not moving just highlighted the 12 o'clock bar and second later I see the battery image all in gray and nothing else. It just sits on that grey static image without actually charging it (no green section or flashing dots)
Boot logo only appears if I am trying to reset without the USB cable. On the boot loop I plug in the cable and I hear the USB connecting it, I see the 2 Removable disks, but both inaccessible and adb commands don't recognize the device.
Very weird, as in turned off mode it's not charging at all.. just shows this grey battery image with a circle progress froze on 12 o'clock bar.
That's pretty much it.... I was never able to enter into recovery nor download via the buttons. It would just always reboot into this grey battery screen....
Completely helpless.... I did order a new battery from TMO, maybe the battery is fried and that's why it's not charging and just sits on this stupid static grey battery screen.
ArbitrageMan said:
It sounds like just your ROM is messed up.
Are you able to "get into recovery"? Holding both volume buttons while you power on the phone, without it being plugged into usb.
Do you have Odin? And have you ever used it?
Its totally frustrating when your phone gets messed up and you don't know what to do.
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Holding both volume keys and releasing power once screen goes blank, only show Vibrant logo again... I have tried this a million times
With USB cable it shows grey battery screen, without the cable just a Vibrant boot loop...
I'm assuming that you have the Samsung drivers installed.
Try the following steps:
Take out the battery and then put it back in but don't turn the phone on.
Plug it via USB.. does anything show up on the screen?
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I'm assuming that you have the Samsung drivers installed.
Try the following steps:
Take out the battery and then put it back in but don't turn the phone on.
Plug it via USB.. does anything show up on the screen?
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Yes, I have the drivers installed as I was able to locate my device and use adb commands to enter into recovery and download. Also Kies worked.
Doing what you asked simply load the grey battery image and nothing else with a progress bar not spinning. Just sort of hangs on this image and that's all.
Booting without the USB cable loads the Vibrant boot loop. Connecting USB at this boot loop state, would play a sound as if it connected to my windows, but I can only see Removable disks that are inaccessible and adb doesn't find the device...
Very strange.... trying to use the button keys to enter into recovery or download is no use, as that just won't ever happen, even when phone was working fine.
Any other suggestions? I would return the phone for replacement... but I am not sure how it would look with all the files still on the internal disk including root if I am not mistaken... I had only few hours of sleep because of this headache
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Yes, I have the drivers installed as I was able to locate my device and use adb commands to enter into recovery and download. Also Kies worked.
Doing what you asked simply load the grey battery image and nothing else with a progress bar not spinning. Just sort of hangs on this image and that's all.
Booting without the USB cable loads the Vibrant boot loop. Connecting USB at this boot loop state, would play a sound as if it connected to my windows, but I can only see Removable disks that are inaccessible and adb doesn't find the device...
Very strange.... trying to use the button keys to enter into recovery or download is no use, as that just won't ever happen, even when phone was working fine.
Any other suggestions? I would return the phone for replacement... but I am not sure how it would look with all the files still on the internal disk including root if I am not mistaken... I had only few hours of sleep because of this headache
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Are you sure that you're doing the right things to get to download? I've been in this situation and I wasn't able to get into recovery but I was able to get back into download mode.
I believe if you return it back and they find out it was rooted, they will charge you for it. If not, it'll appear on your bill.
I'm sure that you're doing the wrong things to get into download mode. If something is appearing on your screen it is a soft-brick and you're not bricked.
1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off)
2. Don't turn it the phone on!
3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button!
4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen (powers on its own when plugged in)
IF the phone screen does 'turn on' after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.
5. Now while it's on like this, hold the volume up and volume down buttons.
6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black.
7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!
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A tip to get into download mode is to put the phone HORIZONTALLY (sideways) and it will make it a lot easier.
I am pretty much positive about it. I know a lot of people can easily enter into recovery or download modes, but I know many can't and I am one of them. It would just load the grey battery image instantly as I let go of the power button.
1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off) DONE
2. Don't turn it the phone on! DONE
3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button! DONE
4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen (powers on its own when plugged in) FIRST THING THAT APPEARS IS A CIRCULAR PROGRESS BAR THAT CHANGES TO A GREY BATTERY IMAGE WITH A BAR IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. STATIC IMAGE, NOTHING ELSE.
IF the phone screen does 'turn on' after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.
5. Now while it's on like this, hold the volume up and volume down buttons. DONE
6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black. DONE
7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons! DONE
THE STUPID GREY COLOR BATTERY IMAGE APPEARS AS BEFORE....
I'm thinking maybe battery is fried and that's why the grey color screen appears and not the usual screen where you see the battery charging...
After reading this thread it's clear that my handset is one of the new ones that have recovery/download modes disabled via the volume+power buttons.
So that pretty much covers it... I hope TMO will not ***** about the files that are on the internal sd that I am unable to access and remove... unless anyone else has any fresh ideals how to gain access to the disk
I think I might have a similar problem.
I accidentally deleted the touchwiz framework so I can't do anything ON the phone. It boots up, and gets me to the lock screen. As soon as I unlock, I am greeted with dozens of unending force closes.
I can get into both download and recovery mode, however, I have not been able to get ADB to recognize the device. I am attempting to push the stock ROM to the internal memory to flash over everything.
I'm not sure what to do to get ADB to work but it's driving me nuts!
Stuck at vibrant? I have a fix
Check out android Dev Section... I figured out how to access download mode or stock recovery mode when you are stuck at the vibrant screen!!!! BACK IN BUSINESS VIBRANT OWNERS!!!
i got the same problem and nothing seems to work
Try this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103706
Feels like I'm having same issues..
the previous post requires opening the phone and I don't have tools for that..
Here's my issue.
I can't get into Recovery or Download and computer won't see phone to Odin.
I've got drivers installed and AIO Toolbox as well as ADB(which won't work because of computer not seeing phone.
Using the manual option(vol+ vol- power), nothing works.
I've done all the tricks like unplug it then hold vol keys plug it insert battery..
When I do plug in the phone to to even just get a charge in it goes the the battery, but my is is frozen or something. doesn't turn green or have a charging animation. After about a minute or so it was start up and boot loop. I read something about a bad battery? I've got two of them and they seemed fine before..
Before all this I had to Odin and go to stock. I was attempting to get ics back but I was being lazy and trying to do as little as possible..bad idea. I was following slim ics install and flashed cm9 daily, slimics and commons..and now this..
I'm not sure what to do..I usually search around xda or google..10 hours later.. idk..Anyone able to give help please?
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eduardo_reflex said:
i got the same problem and nothing seems to work
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... do i even have to say it?
droyd666 said:
Try this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103706
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this problem is most likely solved. After 2 years!
mylostlonelysoul said:
Feels like I'm having same issues..
the previous post requires opening the phone and I don't have tools for that..
Here's my issue.
I can't get into Recovery or Download and computer won't see phone to Odin.
I've got drivers installed and AIO Toolbox as well as ADB(which won't work because of computer not seeing phone.
Using the manual option(vol+ vol- power), nothing works.
I've done all the tricks like unplug it then hold vol keys plug it insert battery..
When I do plug in the phone to to even just get a charge in it goes the the battery, but my is is frozen or something. doesn't turn green or have a charging animation. After about a minute or so it was start up and boot loop. I read something about a bad battery? I've got two of them and they seemed fine before..
Before all this I had to Odin and go to stock. I was attempting to get ics back but I was being lazy and trying to do as little as possible..bad idea. I was following slim ics install and flashed cm9 daily, slimics and commons..and now this..
I'm not sure what to do..I usually search around xda or google..10 hours later.. idk..Anyone able to give help please?
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Try asking another question. But I suggest using a USB jig. They usually work. Then odin
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Did you ever get it fixed man? I literally did the very same to mine a while back and It works like butter as we speak. It is fixable with a mini-usb jig or dongle. You can make your own with about $3 worth of parts from radio shack but I recommend buying one, it will be easier. I for the record made mine simply twisting together the resistors and though it was tough to touch the right pins it did eventually work and get me back into download mode.
Hopefully you already got it fixed though. If not I can help you out.
So I just used Bootmanager for the first time. I was having alot of issues so I rebooted and now it sits at the splash screen and it isn't going into the bootloader. Kind of freaked out.
What do I do to fix this?
Thanks.
are you s-on or s-off?
I'm S-off on 1.49
edit: sorry, I meant 1.40
If u can get to recovery, go to install zip and find the boot manager folder, look in there for a phone Rom folder, their will be an update.zip, flash it and reboot.
I can't get to the recovery. It wont even boot to the spash screen unless it's plugged in.
Pull the battery, put it back in, hold vol down and power, what happens?
Well if it's unplugged it wont do anything. But, if it's plugged in, it goes to the splash screen.
Plugged into what, ac power or USB to comp? Try taking out the sd card and then try vol down and power.
Either the usb to computer or AC. It does it for both.
Took out the sd, no change.
I haven't seen a prob like this, without hboot you'd never see the splash screen, it has to be there. Maybe leave the battery out for a few minutes then try holding vol down+power. If you can get to hboot then you're good but with no hboot your not so good.
Hmm, so my red charging led is blinking now while the phone is off, wasn't doing that before, any idea on what that means?
I know that when I drain my battery all the way till it shuts off, it won't charge and I get the blinking red led. I have to put in a spare battery and let the other sit for a few hours befor it'll charge.
What's it do when u just press power? Just goes to the white HTC screen and stays?
Yeah it does that, I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my vol down.
Does it feel like it "clicks"? Take the case off and try to press vol down+power.
edit..Lol, just tried it without the case and its not as easy as I thought.
It does click, I tried it without the case, it was working earlier today though. The last time I had it on, I was rebooting into recovery and the screen went black and just sat there, so I did a battery bull and that is where I am now, Would something have happened if I did a battery pull in that state?
I wouldn't think so... I've had to pull it in situations like that, generally you just don't want to pull the battery during an ruu update or a pg86img update, when its writing to certain partitions. What recovery are you using and what Rom did you try to flash with boot manager?
I'm using TWRP 2.0 and my phones rom was on mean rom. I put ics playground on slot 1 and was having alot of issues getting the phone to wake up and random freezes and crashes. I attempted to boot back to my phones rom but it wasn't doing it. So I attempted to flash Chads AnthaX ICS playground kernel and bootmanager crashed. so I decided I would just boot into recovery and do flash the update zip for bootmanager.
That is everything I did
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It does click, I tried it without the case, it was working earlier today though. The last time I had it on, I was rebooting into recovery and the screen went black and just sat there, so I did a battery bull and that is where I am now, Would something have happened if I did a battery pull in that state?
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It just sounds like something weird happened to your recovery partition. If you pull out the battery and put it back in, then plug a usb cable into your computer. Do not turn it on. Run the command "adb reboot bootloader" (from your computer). that should turn on the phone and put it into the bootloader. From there, redownload your custom recovery of choice to your computer. Make sure you have a .img file. Type in "fastboot flash recovery [NAMEOFRECOVERYIMAGE].img". Now run your custom recovery and restore the update.zip for your ROM.
~co~
I'd be very surprised if your phone is broken. Sounds like an easy fix and I wish I could help more. You really can't do anything without getting to the hboot screen. No ruu, no turning s-on to re downgrade, no loading a recovery from fastboot.... I'm trying to think, maybe somebody else will jump in here and teach both of us somethin.
I know that a couple of other ppl had prob with a certain release of playground and twistedumbrella fixed them right up. Maybe you could hit him up. He's way more pro than I am.
well my phone is now stuck on the htc screen... help please
I was running meanrom 3.0 then dirty flashed 3.9. My phone would turn off randomly so i restored it to 3.0. Then my text messages wouldnt work couldnt send or receive. So then i full wiped, restored and still no text. Then I full wiped and hit reboot system. And now it is stuck. I guess it is stuck because i didnt restore or install a rom? I cant even get to the bootloader. So is this phone a paperweight now?
Hold power down, this will cause a simulated battery pull, the phone will turn off, wait a second or two then press and hold power button and volume down and you will boot to the boot loader. Be very careful next time
Edit so long as your phone responds there is almost always a way to fix it, you only worry when phone stops responding (screen off won't charge won't turn on)
I wish more people would read my guide I included problems (even this exact one) to help people avoid them
ok got to bootloader. THANKS
No problem I'm glad I helped.
Note: This exact problem and many others are in the troubleshooting section of my guide. (Sorry if I don't advertise no one will use it lol)
Yep.... you wiped the ROM and then tried to boot nothing.
yeah....this is clearly covered in my guide...lol
Hey guys.. I'm in a situation. My DNA is S-off, running VIPER rom. Last nite around 7 it stated it was going to restart, but press something to stop it. No matter what i pressed it did nothing. So i was forced to let it restart. Now it wont go past the HTC screen. It did that til the phone died. When i charge it, it attempts to boot again. When I hold the volume down and power I get the screen with recovery and reboot options. but i only have a few seconds then it goes back to rebooting. I'm not sure how to get it to stay in fast boot, or recovery. Its almost like none of the side buttons work when I'm in the other boot menu (sorry, for the life of me, i cant remember what that menu is called. its the one I access TWRP from) Any help would be greatly appreciated
Chad
dvskin21 said:
Hey guys.. I'm in a situation. My DNA is S-off, running VIPER rom. Last nite around 7 it stated it was going to restart, but press something to stop it. No matter what i pressed it did nothing. So i was forced to let it restart. Now it wont go past the HTC screen. It did that til the phone died. When i charge it, it attempts to boot again. When I hold the volume down and power I get the screen with recovery and reboot options. but i only have a few seconds then it goes back to rebooting. I'm not sure how to get it to stay in fast boot, or recovery. Its almost like none of the side buttons work when I'm in the other boot menu (sorry, for the life of me, i cant remember what that menu is called. its the one I access TWRP from) Any help would be greatly appreciated
Chad
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See if you can select power down from the hboot menu. If you can, leave it off and charging then. If that works, when you boot it up into fastboot hours later try flashing the exe I have posted in the General section. It won't wipe data so your stuff should still be there data wise.
I had recently installed evolution x, everything worked fine, but i stupidly hit the update button today and now im stuck on the twrp splash screen...
When it turns on i get the galaxy s9 plus splash screen then the twrp 3.5.2_9-0 splash screen.
I am not able to turn the phone off with the power button, i have to hold both volume down and power to restart it.
I have also left the phone overnight just incase it needed a bit of time but no luck, still just stuck on the twrp splash screen.
I have tried many hardware button combinations with no luck. I am unable to see the device on adb or fastboot, and i am unable to see the device when plugged in to install drivers for odin.
How do i fix this? (To be clear i dont care about the data on the phone, it is backed up but the phone is currently a paperweight in this state)
Edit [SOLVED]:
After weeks of googling i was able to find one thread for a different phone with a slightly different problem that said letting the phone run out of battery let them boot into download mode and it worked, as soon as i plugged in the phone and held the button combination i was able to get into download mode and install a later twrp version.
Hopefully other people can find this solution faster than i did
I am still looking for information on this if anyone has any.
I have also had to let the phone run out of battery and am hoping that doesnt make things worse.