[Q] Brick or hardware failure? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have Samsung Galaxy S Advance I9070. I do not know how to recover it. I can go to Recovery and to Download mode. Can browse internal storage from Recovery too. But phone do not boot at all. I could install ROM via TWRP, and still no luck. Than I tried 3 firmware via Odin (for my phone ofcourse). And still noting. Recovery stucks at this after Odin instalation restart. And it says:
Code:
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Updating application...
Successfully updated application.
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Can't access to '/system/csc/VOD/system'.
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
And I do not see Samsung Logo at powering phone. Screen is like broken TV (without signal) just when that logo should be seen.
Could JTAG fix this somehow? Maybe I lost bootloader. (I am not too familiar with that).
And last, maybe thing that I should write at the begining: That happend after I tried to restore ROM in TWRP. TWRP restarts at half of process of some compressed backup. But it restored backup that was not compressed. After that I booted normaly into system. But after one reboot later screen become strange at the point where Samsung logo shoud be (just after powering on). And it went to boot loop to recovery from that point. As I said, I tried with flashing stock fw via Odin, installing TWRP - installing custom ROM. All that went well, but no boot.
Could it be some hardware issue, or TWRP messed up something about boot? And I9070 have locked bootloader if that help on answering me somehow.

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Hello everybody.
I have a huge problem and basicly it is my fault. Yesterday i repartitioned my microSD card and created swap partition. Just to see if it works. I used swapper 2 to activate this. After this operation phone was working as usual (it was official nightly build of CM 10.2 from 19.09.2013). But...when i rebooted, the phone was stuck on Samsung logo (So yes, even CM bootloader didn't start working). It was 1 A.M. so i was nearly sick with this, but fortunatelly CWM and Odin mode were working. So did battery recharge. Odin and battery still works.
I have tried cache wipe, full wipe, installing another CM version (10.1.3 - via CWM), installing official samsung firmware ( I9300XXEMG4 - i checked in odin only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time) - whcich resulted in removal of CWM. But it is always stuck on samsung logo, so system itself is not booting. Filesystem is more or less OK, because i launched astro file manager from CWM and was able to copy most of my data.
I tried to do adb logcat when it is trying to boot. Windows recognizes device as "Samsung Mobile MTP Device" after ~20 seconds from turning on, but it can't load drivers for it.
Please help. I am really grateful for any answer.
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Solved. It turned out that /efs was somehow wiped.

[Q] Help with bricked Verizon S4 phone

My phone is MDK and used to have TWRP recovery. I was flashing a rom (EMPTY GALAXY) via TWRP and on the reboot it got in the bootloop. The symptoms are:
Can't boot into recovery, simply goes into BOOTING RECOVERY loop
Won;t even start without a cable, I put a charged battery and didn't want to start with just battery.
I reflashed the emergency MDK image via Odin with success, but still can't make the past BOOTING RECOVERY loop. I tried with PIT and without PIT file.
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I have a Tmobile GS6 Edge,My problem is this I was restoring a TWRP backup, coming from [ROM][5.1.1][OF8] OZOP EDGE. I used this Backup numerous times. But the last restore sent me into bootloop. I'm on OF8 but I ran an OF6 tar file through odin (it's the only one I can get to pass and run successfully). Heres what happened I connected my phone to computer, odin recognized it. hit start. ran successfully. rebooted, android guy came up briefly and said installing system update, then it changed to "Erasing..." then it rebooted again. Now I'm stuck in bootloop. I can boot to recovery and it says installing system update each time I boot to recovery, but selecting reboot system there shows a no command error. I force the phone to power off... power on again to bootloops.
smart switch didn't recognize the phone for a reset so I decided to go with the ODIN method and now i'm lost. I read to reboot to recovery, factory reset in recovery, power down option in recovery but I'm still in bootloop Hell. Is there a pit file I can run? Anything? Please help.
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Hello everybody, My father's old S2 was running well till today, then suddenly it didn't wake up. Tried restarting and got a kernel panic. Then, nothing. The phone stucks on the I9100 logo or sometimes tries to boot, but it's stuck. It DOESN'T enter recovery mode, only download one. I was running a modded Nougat or Marshmallow ROM, and I've found a soft-brick/NAND RW corruption thread here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-fix-unflashable-soft-bricked-gsii-t1457458
It's quite old and I don't know if it works, it refers to the old ICS, and, since I don't want to mess up things more than this, I prefer to ask you if someone has some other recent discussions or solutions for me.
Thank you so much in advance!
Guys can someone please help me? I tried that guide but I can't enter recovery mode, I tried flashing the CMW recovery with ODIN and it always get stuck on "NAND write start!". There is no chance to revive the phone? I can't flash a ROM with ODIN too, it gets stuck at the same point..
Also had the issue once that my device suddenly wouldn't boot up anymore. Also recovery didn't work. I fixed by flashing another recovery via Odin in download mode.
Did take quite long though until I finally succeeded, because at some recovery flashes Odin wouldn't pass 'NAND write start' or something. I tried with different recoveries and USB ports and somehow managed to get it working again. Then I wiped data, cache, system and reinstalled the ROM and Gapps.
Hope this helps.

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