Hi everyone, Ive had an atrix 4g for about a week now. (Coming from windows phone)I rooted it through the command line tutorials that are all over the place and it worked great, BUT it still had a locked boot-loader. So I was messing around with rom toolbox and tried changing a battery icon lol. Well, the next time i re booted it was stuck on the dual core screen. So I tried flashing the boot.img and system.img files. system.img always failed to write. Well, all my messing with it got me a soft brick (or hard brick lol). I get the failed to find OS and the 14 options listed. So after more searching I read about RSD lite and loading the .sbf files. Everything was going perfect, until the battery went to low and the process failed. I tried again and just get the "battery to low to flash" message. I tried taking out the battery then plugging it into a wall charger then putting the battery back in. The phone auto comes on and gives me the same error and 14 option list so I decided to let it sit and see if the battery charges,but nothing after three hours. I tried searching for this solution before posting, but Ive searched and learned so much in two days lol i figured I would try a real person.
I don't have an extra battery, or an external charger. Is there a solution to getting the battery charged through the phone still? I want to get this phone fixed asap lol so I don't give in and get a new phone I cant afford lol.
Thanks everyone this forum has been great!
You have two options:
1) Find someone with an atrix and ask them to charge your battery for you. You could go to a store and ask them for help.
2) Purchase / build a Motorola Factory Cable. That will allow you to flash the phone regardless of the battery status.
Good luck!
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vladeco said:
You have two options:
1) Find someone with an atrix and ask them to charge your battery for you. You could go to a store and ask them for help.
2) Purchase / build a Motorola Factory Cable. That will allow you to flash the phone regardless of the battery status.
Good luck!
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Thanks for the reply. I guess I'll take it over to the local CPR phone repair, I bought it there used but this problem is all me lol Any good tutorials on building a factory cable? (I know ,I'll search lol)That actually sounds fun.
thanks again
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Any good tutorials on building a factory cable?
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Thank you! I think I saw the post with that image, a reply said that a usb 3.0 cable would work as well? That would be faster, but not as fun lol
thanks again
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I've been doing lots of research on here, and am still unclear what my steps to fix my bosses Atrix 4G should be....
He was attempting to root it and put an ICS ROM on it and 'soft bricked' it based on what I have read here. What I am unclear on is what he has done so far, and what steps I should take next. This was done a couple months ago by him so he cannot find the info he was using when this happened.
At this point I do not know if the bootloader is unlocked or not, or what steps to take. Here is the screenshot of the boot menu:
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I know I need to get the battery charged, as it isn't charging now in it's current state.
Any help/guidance is appreciated.
Boot into fastboot mode and do the fastboot oem unlock command.
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Hi, i have that problem once, and my solution was to download a fruit cake, download the motorola rsd lite, installed the drivers, start the rsd protocol in the phone and flash, like I tell you, it worked for me... since you can't charge the battery on the phone, should use and external charger and with that you can proceed.
Best Regards
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I managed to get the bootloader unlocked using a script I found on here and it appears to be booting to the stock ROM. Can't tell because it's my bosses phone and I need to put his SIM in it to go any farther.
Should I be putting CWM or something on here instead of just using the boot menu options at power-up?
Now, I just need to find a good ICS Rom to put on here that still allows the fingerprint reader to work... any suggestions?
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I managed to get the bootloader unlocked using a script I found on here and it appears to be booting to the stock ROM. Can't tell because it's my bosses phone and I need to put his SIM in it to go any farther.
Should I be putting CWM or something on here instead of just using the boot menu options at power-up?
Now, I just need to find a good ICS Rom to put on here that still allows the fingerprint reader to work... any suggestions?
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you'll need CWM to flash a custom ROM. the only ICS ROMs that have working fingerprint scanner would be the leaked ones, but they also have a lot of problems for most people. i would personally suggest using Epinter's CM10, it's 90% functional (no stock video recording, or fingerprint scanner, and loss of webtop)
Darn... was hoping there was a good CM9 or CM10 ROM that worked good and had the fingerprint reader working. Thanks for the info, I'll keep an eye on the Epinter's CM10 like you suggested... hopefully they will get it working sooner rather than later.
Hi folks
I have the problem, that when i tried to install Jellybam on my phone, it suddently went black, and now it wont start at all.
It will not react on home+lock+volume up/down either.
What can the problem be, and is there any solution to this problem at all?
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Pumba Melbye
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Hi folks
I have the problem, that when i tried to install Jellybam on my phone, it suddently went black, and now it wont start at all.
It will not react on home+lock+volume up/down either.
What can the problem be, and is there any solution to this problem at all?
Sincerely
Pumba Melbye
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Are you sure the battery is charged? Do you see the charging animation when you plug in the charger?
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Yes, it was fully charged, and it has also been connected to the charger for the last 8 hours now, and we tested it with my friends battery, so that is not the prob.
Do You see charging animation when You plug in Your charger ?
If not then.... well, You are hardbricked.
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well, i don't see anything no matter what i do at all, so i hope you are right. In that case, what should i do to save it?
Before you flashed jellybam, were you on 4.0.4 stock?
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Yes, i had 4.0.4 and heard a friend telling that his i9100 had been upgraded to jellybam, and we tried to do the same to mine, but when it came to the installation of the new OS, it went all black and hasn't reacted since.
ps. when in charger, the phone is getting warm in the top.
Yes, I know.
You bricked it, read about brick bug.
And I gotta post my fav 4.0.4 meme...
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alright, how to fix it?
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alright, how to fix it?
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Warranty? Tell them you did a factory reset and never came back (which is the truth, don't say anything about jellybam tho).
No warranty? mobo replacement.
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nothing else to do?
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nothing else to do?
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Nope.
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alright, how to fix it?
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The only way to fix it is to replace main board in Your phone. I hope it is still under warranty otherwise it's gonna be rather expensive. Tell them it happened when You did factory reset and never mention rooting or flashing anything.
Hey everybody, so I bought myself a messed up vibrant hoping I could fix it. Originally it acted like this:
Plug it in to charge: shows the stock loading bar, then loading bar with battery, repeat.
Turn it on: shows the at&t world phone screen, (I think they tried to flash captivate files to it) (yes I am sure it is a vibrant, I have had 3 now)
Wouldn't even go into download mode, definitely not recovery.
I bought a USB download mode jig, and that worked wonders on it and got it to download mode!
My micro USB port on my phone is junk, but I finally got odin to recognize it, but it failed after saying setup connection forever.
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Any ideas? Is JTAG the only option I have at this point, if so anyone know who'll do it for less than $50?
If it helps I have a linux computer.
Maybe the unbrickableMOD? I suck at soldering and I don't really know anyone who is good, but I might be able to make that work as a last resort.
Now it has changed its mind once again, I put the USB jig in and it went to the soft bricked screen with the cell phone...!...computer
It can't be a problem with the cable or the computer because I have tried several ports and I have used same computer with odin many times.
It has changed its mind once again, now we're back to download mode.
I have finally gotten it back in download mode, now trying to get odin to see it again and not have the computer just say usb device not recognized . Any ideas for this?
Progress! Now it will say but i still cannot get odin to recognize it again, any ideas? I have and am trying multiple versions of odin just to make sure.
Now we're back to .
Still no ideas? If I can get odin to recognize it again I think I have a special odin to fix it.
Eh, maybe I'll scrap it for parts.
Try and get odin to recognise it and flash i9000 pit file. It should flash successfully. Then try flashing the firmware, make sure you include the pit file.
Kindly hit the THANKS button if i helped.
I AM A POTAYTOE!!! :banghead:
Sounds to me like your usb port is bad. www.mobiletechvideos.com will replace it for you or you can just order the part if you know how to solder but you must be really good at soldering or you will ruin it. They also offer jtag I believe but I don't feel like you need that. Mobile tech is a very trusted source FYI, so purchase with confidence if you go that route.
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Hi!
I have a problem with my S2.
So, yesterday, I tried to tether through USB and I saw it was't working and I said I'd change the ROM and it will work. I changed 3 ROMs and realised that USB wasn't working (neither in ROM or recovery) An hour ago, I tried connecting it to Odin and after 5 minutes, I succeded in Odin recognising it and I started flashing official software, but phone randomly disconnected. Now, if I try to connect it, I can't and the phone does not boot and does not enter recovery. What can I do?
PS: Sorry for bad english.
PS2: Tried connecting phone to 3 Windows 7 PCs and a Mac and it wasn't recognised at all.
worn out?
I'm not sure but I think the contact/connecter is worn out... I have a similar problem with random disconnects mainly when charging the phone but also sometimes with usb-pc connections. Changing to newer cables helps a bit but not entirely...
If it is not rom related I don't know what you can do more then trying another usb cable or buying a new phone. I guess that's not an option?
You also said your phone does not boot and you can't enter recovery... But what about "download mode"? As long as you can enter download mode you can fix the software in your phone but to do that you need the usb to be working correctly with no disconnects or else odin will mess up every time!
Replace USB board. Has been discussed here many times over the past month or so; search for those threads.
The USB port seems to be the weak point of the S2. It is seemingly the most replaced part for this phone.....I have had to do it myself, and have helped others in a similar situation. If you search my topics, you'll find one called 'video tutorial' which shows a step by step process for 'tearing down' an S2. This will help if you decide to replace the board yourself. Online shopping sites are a good place to source the part you need. But be advised, there are THREE different versions of this part (REV2.2, REV2.3 and REV2.4) see the photo below to find out where to look for the version number....
Make sure you get the same version as you remove, as a mismatch at this point is likely to cause other problems. ....
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Thanks a lot for the answers. I just had to clean it, and it's working perfecly now.
so i rooted my phone yesterday finally after a long wait because it is a verizon sch-i545 on vrugof1. i was thankful that they got it figured out. unfortunately because of my ignorance i bricked the stupid thing custom romming on top of custom rom. the 2 following pix show what the 2 screens say : 1st on the phone it says "your device didn't start up successfully. Use verizon software repair assistant to repair..." and 2nd when trying that on my desktop the repair button is greyed out on said repair software because it doesnt recognize my phone anymore. tried many times to get into download mode but it wont go past the start up failed screen. please if someone had this happen before please help. thank in advance.
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If I am understanding you correctly you flashed a custom rom and it failed to boot. It is pretty hard to get into download mode with the combo when it is softbricked like that. An easy way to get into dl mode would to be to buy a download jig which are like $4 on amazon. Unless you flashed over recovery.img as well then you are in a completely different situation
please more info on these jigs or will that even help
thanks for the tip. none of the jigs on amazon right now say sch-i545 specifically but does it matter? i guess in order to get it asap i will just order the $5.99 from eopzol says will ship by monday. . anyway will it ship with instructions or how do i know what to do with it? maybe i should wait for your response to the rest of this explanation since you asked about recovery image i guess i need to be more specific about what i did. once i was rooted and granted rom toolbox premium superuser access i tried the top choice which was twrp. but instead of learning more about roms i thought i would try cwmr on top of it and so know you know what we are dealing with here. hence the fear i just crapped all over my phone. please tell me there is hope.
no longer bricked
with a lot of tries i was able to get back into download mode just trying over and over again until i got it and reflashed oc1 via odin3 and rebooted phone and it is still rooted! what a relief. didnt need jig but it may come inhandy since i ordered it anyway just in case. so no longer asking to get help with failed to start problem. i will post my other ? in proper place about fav roms.
i have been told and learned to be careful on use of the word brick
i have been told and have learned to not go around willy nilly throwing the word brick around. its like crying wolf. you really want to get help but not by tossing important industry lingo about without learning true meaning. now as far as this specific problem it is no longer valid and i have reposted an updated problem titled "vrugof1 maybe hiding under revert to vrugoc1 s4 stuck on verizon logo". so to the forum moderator this can be closed as no longer the issue.