[Q] Hard bricked two times need help - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

First let me put it out there that I have been rooting and installing roms for multiple phones with no issue ever.
I tried to install *TheCollective*AoCP - CP4.4 for i717 on my note and it hard bricked the first one I don't know why but it did. No biggie so I went through warranty and got a new one today. Heres my process (Assume I have samsung usb drivers already installed and battery is 100%)
Enable USB debugging
Used Odin3 v1.83
Used cwm-touch-i717-120414.tar.md5
Downloaded *TheCollective*AoCP - CP4.4 for i717
Downloaded gapps-jb-20120726-signed
Added both to SD card
Boot into Recovery
NANDroid backup
Wipe data/Factory reset
Wipe Dalvik cache
Format /system
Install ZIP From SD Card (RoM first then gapps)
Reboot.....wont turn on at all black screen nothing from phone
What am I doing wrong?
Someone please tell me.

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Dont format /system. It's not necessary. I do everything you did. Except I Use TWRP... I dont see anything wrong with your process

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See and on the first phone I didnt format the system and it bricked so I thought it was because I didnt format the system thats why I did it on my note
Edit: Being a broke college student I can't afford this mistake again. If anyone can help me (specific to this rom) that I'm doing wrong or what may be wrong with my phone that would be awesome.

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I did everything right I looked through the rom thread well into 100 pages and nobody has had any issues.
I've never hard bricked any other phone before and I had my original note on another rom as well.
It was only until I used that rom did it hard brick or as far as I know it hard bricked.
Can anybody respond to give me a hint as to what happened?

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Post a picture of your note. I want to "see" this device.
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Fact of the matter is;
The packaged rom you refer to dose not contain bootloaders. So its really quiet unlikely its hard bricked unless you flash it to a device its not ment for.
The recovery in question is the one I use as well so that also should not cause an issue.
Have you tried a jig? To get back into download mode?
I really want to see this device you own I have a feeling you may be flashing the wrong device files.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2

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Johnsondr80 said:
Fact of the matter is;
The packaged rom you refer to dose not contain bootloaders. So its really quiet unlikely its hard bricked unless you flash it to a device its not ment for.
The recovery in question is the one I use as well so that also should not cause an issue.
Have you tried a jig? To get back into download mode?
I really want to see this device you own I have a feeling you may be flashing the wrong device files.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2
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I do not own a jig right now as I lost mine.
heres pic
http://imgur.com/DkseY
Sorry for bad writing...its late

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I know that the device is not booting at all. no vibrate, no sound just a black screen.
I've heard amazing things about the rom hence why I wanna try it. I don't mean any disrespect to any of the rom developers.
I thank you for even responding! I'm pretty sure it's on my end I just wanna find out what.

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Dark_lupus said:
I know that the device is not booting at all. no vibrate, no sound just a black screen.
I've heard amazing things about the rom hence why I wanna try it. I don't mean any disrespect to any of the rom developers.
I thank you for even responding! I'm pretty sure it's on my end I just wanna find out what.
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example of a jig(s): http://www.cellularfactory.com/det.jsp?d=57293&c=658122
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5sHPPnins
i dont know if this is the one that will work for you but its what you need, if you are hard bricked.. did you try pulling batteries and getting into download mode by holding volume down and power and plugging in usb (all without the battery in device) ?
dont know if it will work but give it a shot.

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mejori said:
example of a jig(s): http://www.cellularfactory.com/det.jsp?d=57293&c=658122
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5sHPPnins
i dont know if this is the one that will work for you but its what you need, if you are hard bricked.. did you try pulling batteries and getting into download mode by holding volume down and power and plugging in usb (all without the battery in device) ?
dont know if it will work but give it a shot.
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Tried it that way when connected to my computer just kept giving me a you need to format G: etc etc over and over again (multiple windows) until i unplugged it.

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Dark_lupus said:
Tried it that way when connected to my computer just kept giving me a you need to format G: etc etc over and over again (multiple windows) until i unplugged it.
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This statement made me think of something else:
1: What cable did you use?
2: Were both phones bricked while flashing from the same PC?
I ask that, because if your phone is unplugged part way through a bootloader being installed... But you don't have to unplug it, it could be a faulty USB cable or bad PC drivers :/

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Ive rooted and romd a ton of devices myself never ever bricked one until I came across this one... i own a jig and no recovery no boot whatsoever my only conclusion as to why this happened to me.. is a while back people were reporting a few certain phones had a "brick bug" there's an actual app to run and check to give you some peace of mind.
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Snarksneeze said:
This statement made me think of something else:
1: What cable did you use?
2: Were both phones bricked while flashing from the same PC?
I ask that, because if your phone is unplugged part way through a bootloader being installed... But you don't have to unplug it, it could be a faulty USB cable or bad PC drivers :/
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Used the cable that came with both phones, the old cable for the old phone and the new cable for the new phone
both phones used the same pc.(never had any issue before) Both phones were 100% battery and unplugged while installing the roms though\
Only until after installing the roms did the phone not come back on. (meaning after installing CWM I restarted the phone and it started up fine issue only happened after I installed the rom)
Brick bugs?

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So squeezed my way into a replacement.
Scared to try another rom but I think that I will try another one and see if it works. My phone will be here tuesday.
Should I use another computer to do load CWM? Throw some advice as I'm pretty sure this is the last time I can get another phone for a while

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Hi... I hard bricked my at&t sgh-i717 in the same way... same rom... same format system... and the phone would not start up, not recovery mode or download mode. I built a jig, that work correctly with the samsung S2, but on the Note no effect :crying:
---------- Post added at 06:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:09 PM ----------
Can I do something to revive my Note?

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Dark_lupus said:
So squeezed my way into a replacement.
Scared to try another rom but I think that I will try another one and see if it works. My phone will be here tuesday.
Should I use another computer to do load CWM? Throw some advice as I'm pretty sure this is the last time I can get another phone for a while
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I bricked a phone and soft bricked a phone and brought it back to normal just recently - The problem that i have is that i actually provide a flashing service to my customers and the guy i had dealt with used samsung kies and downloaded ICS which brings many issues to the table when flashing the easy way. Rather than mess around i decided to go about things the easy way below;
--Enter ODIN mode on i717, Download & Flash the STock Gingerbread 2.3.3 AT&T Rom (which is linked in Da_g's Thread) using ODIN on ur PC i(500MB zip)
--install the DA_G OC root kernel
--then install TWRP.zip via Odin or flash CWM
--then Download and flash Jellbean ROM of your choice / GAPPs. (after you wipe cache x3 and dalvik x3
Make sure you have all the samsung galaxy note drivers installed on your computer... if you are unsure REINSTALL them. Trust me

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BigBison420 said:
I bricked a phone and soft bricked a phone and brought it back to normal just recently - The problem that i have is that i actually provide a flashing service to my customers and the guy i had dealt with used samsung kies and downloaded ICS which brings many issues to the table when flashing the easy way. Rather than mess around i decided to go about things the easy way below;
--Enter ODIN mode on i717, Download & Flash the STock Gingerbread 2.3.3 AT&T Rom (which is linked in Da_g's Thread) using ODIN on ur PC i(500MB zip)
--install the DA_G OC root kernel
--then install TWRP.zip via Odin or flash CWM
--then Download and flash Jellbean ROM of your choice / GAPPs. (after you wipe cache x3 and dalvik x3
Make sure you have all the samsung galaxy note drivers installed on your computer... if you are unsure REINSTALL them. Trust me
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Hi... my note would not power on... so no recovery/download mode... When i plug it to my pc, it's recognized like "qualcom device" or something similar... kies is up to date and the drivers are ok... but Odin is useless :crying:

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First rule.
Flash packages built for your device.
Second rule.
Follow install instruction.
If your having problems its one of those that you failed at.
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Hi,
First I would like to say thanks for all the hard and awesome work.
I'm a noob/longime lurker, and don't have enough posts to be able to post on the thread itself, hence the PM.
I just wanted to share a suggestion if you can change your naming convention of your download files on the mirror site (or in general).
I had trouble downloading from the main link which kept timing out on me. So I used the dev-host mirror link, which has 4 links, but ended up downloading the wrong ROM. I should've gotten the i747 one (for AT&T) but instead got the i727 one, as I mistakenly thought these were just all different mirror links to the same file.
Long story short, this ended up bricking my phone, which is now getting exchanged at AT&T.
I know this is completely due to my noobness, and lesson learned,
but my suggestion is if you can change the naming convention of the files, (especially on the download mirror) or somehow make the difference in the files more obvious than just the 1 character digit difference located in the middle of the file name.
This may help other soul avoid making the same mistake I did.
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Please read the zip file name in its entirety.
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Johnsondr80 said:
First rule.
Flash packages built for your device.
Second rule.
Follow install instruction.
If your having problems its one of those that you failed at.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 2
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Hi Johnsondr80... i flashed the right rom... for the right phone... I have an at&t shg-i717, and i717 was written on the name of the file i flashed... i'm only asking if you could help me to get back my phone... nothing more brother