Help am i bricked ? hdc s4 - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
i think i bricked my phone.
i must admit it may be my own fault as i didnt really know what i was doing anyways ill talk you through what happened....
i was trying to get cwn recovery onto my phone and as said i was unsure of what i was doing (i know im Stupid) i had already sucessfully rooted the phone and i opened mtkdroid tools and clicked backup and recovery the box on the right started to spit out text as my phone became detached from the data cable.
Now when i try to power up the phone the backlight lights up for 3-4 seconds then nothing if i hold
volume + and power with no data cable i get the same backlight for 3-4 seconds
volume + and power with data cable i get a dead droid with a red ! in a triangle in its belly ?
the phone displays a battry bar in blue if i do nothing
the pc seems to recognise phone as universal serial bus
mtkdroidtools does not regognise the phone at all
the phone did say android preloader driver not found but ive installed this and this has now disapeared?
anyone help even if its just to tell me to give up (hopefully not ive had the phone about 2 hours EPIC FAIL)

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Over 90 views and no-one even attempted to help...
Short and sweet , hopefully this will get you up and running again.
Download these 2 files
http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?uk=3055194073&shareid=4221153774[/URL
[URL="http://d-h.st/KyK"]http://d-h.st/KyK
Basically this is the default rom, along with spflashtools.
Unzip both to your harddrive somewhere.
Open the location you have extracted spflashtools and click on Flash_tool.exe , then, click scatter-loading on the right hand side, and point it to where you have extracted the rom.
Now, with your phone unplugged from PC/Laptop click the Download button in SPFlashtool. Click ok to anything that pops up.
Now, take the battery out of your phone, and insert the usb cable into the laptop, WITH BATTERY UNPLUGGED . Keep the battery unplugged untill the flash is complete, a little box with a circle saying OK will show after few minutes.
Try this, hopefully this will put you back to stock and you can try again

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Cheers pal ill give this a try tomorrow. You're a legend!
And to the 90 views I don't mind as said its my own fault and can't blame the people who had ideas bet they get this all the time usually from noobs who require babysitting through the process ...
Anyways fingers crossed

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Ok so its not working im getting the error in the following picture if anyone can help......
firstly sp flash tools just searches for the com port / usb when the battery is not installed ive tried various build of sp flash with the same results.
when i insert the battery it finds com 5 or 6 and goes to 100% of the red progress bar then i recieve the following error
heres a screenshot (icant post links yet)
imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/lrid.jpg/
many thanks
Garry

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BIGG1985 said:
imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/lrid.jpg/
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Have you a link to where you bought your phone ?
Looks like a dual core version ?
If you can point me to where you purchased your model i should be able to get you the correct ROM to load

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unfortunatly the phone was bought from a guy in england looks like he ripped me off.... it appears to be the same phone as
dhgate.com/product/air-gesture-real-5-0-inch-s4-1-1-i9500-7/139991313.html#s1-2-1|3289411982
what about it only working with the battery in too is this a big problem i make sure the phone is still not powered on but it just wont download with the battery out....
many thanks
Garry

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soft brick
BIGG1985 said:
Hey guys,
i think i bricked my phone.
i must admit it may be my own fault as i didnt really know what i was doing anyways ill talk you through what happened....
i was trying to get cwn recovery onto my phone and as said i was unsure of what i was doing (i know im Stupid) i had already sucessfully rooted the phone and i opened mtkdroid tools and clicked backup and recovery the box on the right started to spit out text as my phone became detached from the data cable.
Now when i try to power up the phone the backlight lights up for 3-4 seconds then nothing if i hold
volume + and power with no data cable i get the same backlight for 3-4 seconds
volume + and power with data cable i get a dead droid with a red ! in a triangle in its belly ?
the phone displays a battry bar in blue if i do nothing
the pc seems to recognise phone as universal serial bus
mtkdroidtools does not regognise the phone at all
the phone did say android preloader driver not found but ive installed this and this has now disapeared?
anyone help even if its just to tell me to give up (hopefully not ive had the phone about 2 hours EPIC FAIL)
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it is soft brick you should flash with boot image!!

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BIGG1985 said:
unfortunatly the phone was bought from a guy in england looks like he ripped me off.... it appears to be the same phone as
dhgate.com/product/air-gesture-real-5-0-inch-s4-1-1-i9500-7/139991313.html#s1-2-1|3289411982
what about it only working with the battery in too is this a big problem i make sure the phone is still not powered on but it just wont download with the battery out....
many thanks
Garry
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ok
Try downloading this rom
http://www.needrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/S4-6577_AIRGESTURE_I950X_V101En20130627.rar
You may to need to register with needrom
That ROM is the default MTK6577 Rom with air gestures
Do as i instructed earlier, extract the rom from zip, this time rename the folder as it contains special characters which may throw of SP Tools
i.e rename folder S4จาง6577_AIRGESTURE_I950X_V101En20130627 to mtk6577 or something.
Then load the scatter file, hit download and insert cable again with no battery , see if that runs now
also , here are the MTK6577 drivers if required
http://androidurdu.com/download/MT6577%20USB%20VCOM%20drivers.rar

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Ok so.......
again nothing without the battery installed just keeps searching and nothing.
witht the battery in it flashed got the green circle and everything.
but when i power up the phone i get a white display with black lines down centre.... occasional color bit
same screen when i try to enter recovery
meh not got my hopes up aswell
thnaks for the help guys really appreciate
is it worth trying to flash anything else or should i give up.....

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OK don't panic.
First you should know there's plenty of S4 clones out there (HDC Galaxy S4, HDC Spark, Meso S4, unidentified Dual SIM S4 clone, etc., etc.).
Second you have to be 100% sure your system is properly set up.
If you or a friend of you has another MTK (better if MTK6589) smartphone check if everything works properly (drivers, flashing, etc.).
If not install everything properly and in a clean Windows partition without 300 USB drivers and devices.
Once you are done with what written above come back and we will see.
In the meantime upload a pic of the backside without cover and battery, but please be sure to hide the printed IMEI number.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note with Tapatalk 2

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Thanks i will have to look into creating a windows partition not something i have ever done.. i will also get a picture of the phone uploaded asap thanks for your help.i dont have a friend with a similar phone but i do have an mtk6589 s4 coming from china (dhgate) its a replacement for one that was broke on arrival just takes forever i bought this to put me on..

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Hey guys here are the pictures on the phone
imageshack.us/a/img20/8845/kss4.jpg
imageshack.us/a/img829/25/yskl.jpg
imageshack.us/a/img12/5650/jgij.jpg
imageshack.us/a/img823/1478/7b2o.jpg
i also took a screen shot from USB Deview to show what drivers are being used during a flash not sure if its useful or not tho.
thanks again
Garry

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So youvr bought a take s4 and fvcked it... good one you n0000b
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

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cheadabudas - yes i maybe a n00b but at least im not someone who has nothing better to do than troll through xda commenting on posts with no relevance L0S3R :laugh:

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After speaking to the original owner i believe this is the phone.....
dhgate.com/product/new-arrive-1-1-gt-i9500-i9500-feiteng-h9500/164699915.html#s1-2-1|2177543576
it also has the same black block near the speaker jack which i havent noticed on any other model
anyone have a rom ?

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ok so finally found the required rom for anyone else having the same problem
http://www.filedropper.com/1to1s4softwareandtool

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broken link
BIGG1985 said:
ok so finally found the required rom for anyone else having the same problem
your link does not work anymore can you send a working link, thanks.
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Trojan found in USB driver from package in the androidurdu.net
wilsey said:
ok
Try downloading this rom
needrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/S4-6577_AIRGESTURE_I950X_V101En20130627.rar
You may to need to register with needrom
That ROM is the default MTK6577 Rom with air gestures
Do as i instructed earlier, extract the rom from zip, this time rename the folder as it contains special characters which may throw of SP Tools
i.e rename folder S4จาง6577_AIRGESTURE_I950X_V101En20130627 to mtk6577 or something.
Then load the scatter file, hit download and insert cable again with no battery , see if that runs now
also , here are the MTK6577 drivers if required
androidurdu.com/download/MT6577%20USB%20VCOM%20drivers.rar
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