I accidentally formatted my phone's internal storage with a third party app. I intended to format my 16GB micro sd card. A bad oops. It's hardbricked, it won't power on, or get a boot screen. Power + vol down doesn't get it into download mode.
So.....
1. Will a USB jag off ebay work?
2. Would this method work? (dd image to sd card, try to boot off that)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125
Or any other suggestions?
My last resort is sending it to a repair service that would Jtag my phone.
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I am having a terrible time getting my Tablet to boot to the card I created with AlbertWertz instructions.
I have tried the method of just plugging in the power cable = does not boot at all.
I have tried holding power and the "N" button = goes into stock Factory reset, I backed out at that point.
I have tried holding power and the "N" button with the usb pluged into my PC = does not boot at all.
I cannot tell if the problem is my boot method or the card - which I have recreated several times on different PCs.
Can someone please help with this problem?
Thanks
After restoring the image to the SD card you should open EASUS Partition Manager (free download) and make sure there's only one FAT32 partition that's 50mb and set as active.
Ended up fixing the boot on my NT 8GB this way. There was some useless partition that the program made on mine that used the rest of the space and was interfering with the boot.
Exlixe said:
After restoring the image to the SD card you should open EASUS Partition Manager (free download) and make sure there's only one FAT32 partition that's 50mb and set as active.
Ended up fixing the boot on my NT 8GB this way. There was some useless partition that the program made on mine that used the rest of the space and was interfering with the boot.
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I followed your suggestion - there was no problem with my partitions.
Just plugging in the power cable does not work for the NTs that need "help" in booting from an SD card -- you need to have the power cable and charger plugged in, or the power cable plugged into a PC USB port -- in other words, there has to be voltage on the power pins of the USB connector.
Phone won't do anything with SD inside (not even flashmode).
Almost... there's one way i can get it to boot with the SD on and it's the first time after I flash a kernel through flashtool. Then I can even mount it as USB storage and flash roms but after that the phone won't turn on again as long as the SD card is inside.
When I say it won't turn on i mean i don't even get the vibration while pressing power button.
Already tried repairing through PC Companion but no luck. Had to remove card for PC companion to recognize the phone and get into flashmode.
The phone is running great now with FeraV4. It doesn't even says no sd card detected.
Possible causes:
1- battery: the phone will be 2 years old on February, it's not like the first day but i don't think it's soooo bad to cause this.
2- SD card: tried with my 16Gb class 6 and with 4Gb Class 4 with no luck, both FAT32 and formatted in many different ways (CWM, SD fomat, Windows).
Next Steps:
0 - deplete the battery and try again. As i read in some thread.
1 - check a repair shop has any battery to test it. (tomorrow)
2 - if it doesn't work maybe i'll see if it's worth leaving it for repairing right now.
3 - get one of these and try http://r.ebay.com/ob5Cof
OK, I made a stupid mistake and before I throw my phone away, I thought I would at least check to see if someone has a recommendation first.
In CWM, I chose to format system, data, and all the other format options. It essentially wiped my device, and then when I chose to reboot recovery, it hangs at the Vibrant screen. I am now not able to boot into recovery. I assume that my choice in formatting everything removed recovery? Not a problem in and of itself because I can get my phone into download mode and use Odin to put my recovery and desired ROM except that my micro USB port is damaged to the point that my phone will not charge or connect to a PC.
In short, is there a way to install a version of recovery onto my external sd card and then have my phone boot from external SD card? Since I cannot physically plug my phone into a computer, the only way I can think of getting files onto the device is via the external SD card.
Any other suggestions are appreciated, including what to do with my new brick
You can always fix the USB port on your phone so don't toss it, unless you want to toss it my way!
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Hello,
I Have tried to burn android 4.1.2 on my phone with the odin.
During the installation the device stuck.
I power of the phone and tried to power it on - a problem occured(brick status).
I entered again to odin and install root and CWM and my phone power up.
The problem is the he does not recognise Internal SD card and External card.
In addition when i try to format he it cannot be done, even from the recovery - write error mouting /sdcard.
Pherheps i did not install the correct root but i dont know.
Can someone help?
I dont know what to do.
BR,
Gil
Send it to repair.
I have an extra note 3 phone and when I plug it in and hold the power button down it comes on but only shows the Samsung screen in silver with the words up top left recovery booting..... In blue letters And then it will go black. And if I push the power, home and volume up or down instead of going into recovery or download mode it just vibrates and shows the Samsung in silver and recovery booting.... In blue and then goes black again every once and a while I can get it to make a sound like I took a screen shot. but it just gets hot until the battlery dies. So I wish I could fix it and sell it but I don't know what else to do so any help would be appreciated.
I think it's a timing thing. As soon as you feel that vibration press volume down and home key. Try it a couple of times. It happened to be once.
No I've tried that I'm good about the whole timing thing to get in to either mode. So not sure still I saw a thread on an unbrick image that you can put on an sd card and it boots from that but I have no clue on how it is done.
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No I've tried that I'm good about the whole timing thing to get in to either mode. So not sure still I saw a thread on an unbrick image that you can put on an sd card and it boots from that but I have no clue on how it is done.
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True there is a thread on that, but you have to be able to get into recovery, stock or custom so that you can toggle to the sd card. So just to be clear, you are holding down the power button, volume down button, and the home button at same time under constant pressure until a screen with a yellow triangle comes up asking if you want to go to download mode by pushing the volume up button or reboot the device by pushing the volume button down.
BTW here is a way to do it without toggling to your sd card. Here is the link for a SM-N900P unbrick img. for your sd card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2651696&page=2 go to post #19 and download the file to your PC desktop, remove the sd card from your device and install in the adapter that allows it be installed in your PC. (black plastic adapter that comes with ext sd card) First, backup all data on sd card to PC. Format/erase your SD Card, then copy and paste .img file to sd card, install back in phone and boot up device. Once phone is booted, and settled down a minute power down device. Pull sd card, boot phone into download mode and use odin to flash a fresh copy of NC5 on phone. install sd card back in PC and format/erase it, now install back in device and all is back to normal.
Got the info from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600869 but you don't have to create the boot img file someone already did it in the link above on post #19.
Thanks for this. But no I can't get in recovery or download mode. So can I still do it if I can't get in download mode? Also I need to buy another sd card to use I don't want to use the one in my current phone. And the only other one I have is a 2gb sd. Also I have formatted a sd card once before to fat32 but I have forgotten how to do the formatting. How big of an sd card do I need?
Ok so I read the links and it seems I need a 16 or 32 gb sd card and I can just format the sd card on my current working phone in setting/ more storage. Hope fully this will work thanks so much for the help.
slade1style said:
Ok so I read the links and it seems I need a 16 or 32 gb sd card and I can just format the sd card on my current working phone in setting/ more storage. Hope fully this will work thanks so much for the help.
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Ok, but you are talking about a ext sd card in your working device, right? If so just copy the entire sd card via your usb cable to a file on the desktop of your PC. Then format/erase the sd card and copy the SM-N900P unbrick img file to the sdcard and install in the bricked device and boot it up. Then Odin the stock NC5 through download mode and once it is up and running, erase the sdcard via usb cable to PC. Put the sd card in the other device and copy the files back from desktop file, and all should be ready to go.
Before you do all this. Try booting to download mode. If you can get to download mode you can push a recovery image again via Odin. That would fix issue or even flash nc5 tar to go back to factory
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Thanks Jimzweb I will try that! And no Kaos I cant get into download mode!