Sorry if this is in the wrong section but im trying to find someone in my area that has an unlock shop or is in possesion of a z3x/spt/riff/volcano box or similar.
I'm willing to travel anywhere in the UK and pay for someone to help me with my Galaxy S II (i9100) repair.
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Why do you need a box to repair your i9100? What's wrong with it?
You can flash ROM's yourself using your USB cable via ODIN. If your phone is bricked, then you need to get a USB Jig to boot into Download mode and then flash a stock ROM.
If you're looking to unlock your phone, you can do it for free with Galaxy S2 SIM Unlock (Root needed).
i360* said:
Why do you need a box to repair your i9100? What's wrong with it?
You can flash ROM's yourself using your USB cable via ODIN. If your phone is bricked, then you need to get a USB Jig to boot into Download mode and then flash a stock ROM.
If you're looking to unlock your phone, you can do it for free with Galaxy S2 SIM Unlock (Root needed).
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You do realize that if he has a hard brick, meaning, doesn't turn on and can't go to download mode then his only option is jtag it, right?
beston94 said:
You do realize that if he has a hard brick, meaning, doesn't turn on and can't go to download mode then his only option is jtag it, right?
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He hasn't stated whats wrong with his phone. I'm only assuming that he's looking to get his phone unlocked
I bought LG Optimus L5 E610 few months but i rooted it just few days ago. After i rooted it i installed ROM Manager and installed CWM but my device was not in the lost so i selected LGE Optimus M+ (idk why). Then a friend of mine told me about the "cool app" Beats Audio Installer and i installed it. After i rebooted the phone the speaker started making crazy sounds. I read in the app's site that i have to install a ROM to restore the original sound driver. I decided to install the stock ROM from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1790342 but when i tried to install it it asked me to boot in recovery mode and i accepted. After it restarted it showed this " Secure booting error! cause: boot certification verify. Now I want to restore it to its original state but i don't know how so please help me fast.
Read this, to install the correct CWM for your phone (you'll have to download the .img yourself):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827723
Then, boot to recovery & flash your fixes from there.
Alternatively, you can use the KDZ flasher to restore to pure stock.
(you'll have to download the .img yourself)
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Where can i find this .img file?
Please help me i have an even bigger problem. I dont know what happened but when i turn my phone on now the LG logo appears and stays forever please help me because I dont know what to do .
And another question: If i cant repair it myself is it repairable at all?
niquici Crosskill
plomba97 said:
Please help me i have an even bigger problem. I dont know what happened but when i turn my phone on now the LG logo appears and stays forever please help me because I dont know what to do .
And another question: If i cant repair it myself is it repairable at all?
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If you had made a nandroid backup... reboot into CWM and restore...
Omessy7 said:
If you had made a nandroid backup... reboot into CWM and restore...
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I have a nandroid backup but as i said i have no recovery.
plomba97 said:
I have a nandroid backup but as i said i have no recovery.
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Try connecting your phone to your computer and using ADB to flash a new recovery to your phone.
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Can someone please tell me exactly what I have to do because I've already did enough on my own.
My problem is this:
1.My phone freezes on the LG logo.
2.I cant boot into recovery.
plomba97 said:
Can someone please tell me exactly what I have to do because I've already did enough on my own.
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Use this to download your original firmware.
Use this guide to flash it with the KDZ updater.
When it's done, you'll be back to stock ROM, and all your data will be gone. Don't play with your computer or have anything else running, because if your computer freezes during the flash (or you remove your phone's battery) your phone will be hard-bricked.
If you would rather save your data & only flash CWM onto the recovery partition, you need to find & download the .img or .zip file of CWM which was made for your phone, then flash it using Android Flash Recovery.
post-mortem said:
Use this to download your original firmware.
Use this guide to flash it with the KDZ updater.
When it's done, you'll be back to stock ROM, and all your data will be gone. Don't play with your computer or have anything else running, because if your computer freezes during the flash (or you remove your phone's battery) your phone will be hard-bricked.
If you would rather save your data & only flash CWM onto the recovery partition, you need to find & download the .img or .zip file of CWM which was made for your phone, then flash it using Android Flash Recovery.
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2 more question:
Can i use this tool if i cant boot my phone?
If i harbrick my phone what should i do?
plomba97 said:
1 more question:
If i harbrick my phone what should i do?
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Build a brick wall with it. It's a brick.
Soft brick means it's recoverable. Hard brick can be sold for parts.
unttris always
plomba97 said:
1 more question:
If i harbrick my phone what should i do?
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Buy a new phone...
plomba97 said:
2 more question:
Can i use this tool if i cant boot my phone?
If i harbrick my phone what should i do?
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Yes the tool should work even if you can't boot your phone. If you hard bricked your phone you will need to use jtag to unbrick it.
shimp208 said:
Yes the tool should work even if you can't boot your phone. If you hard bricked your phone you will need to use jtag to unbrick it.
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So u think my phone is soft bricked? I think i should send it to LG.
And what is jtag.
plomba97 said:
So u think my phone is soft bricked? I think i should send it to LG.
And what is jtag.
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If you did something considered by them as illegal they wont fix it... (unlocking bootloader, custom ROM...)
plomba97 said:
So u think my phone is soft bricked? I think i should send it to LG.
And what is jtag.
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If your phone is only soft bricked LG will easily be able to tell you rooted it and "installed unauthorized software" on your phone and they very likely won't honor your warranty or offer to fix it. JTAG essentially allows you to restore your phone to its original condition if you have a brick or some soft bricks. What they do is they take apart the back of the phone so they can access the JTAG pads, they then solder wires to the JTAG pads. Next when a connection had been established they hook up the wires to a riff box using a ribbon cable, they then attach a cable from the riff box to the computer. From here they use a special program called Riff Box JTAG manager, to resurrect your device (Restore bootloader, etc.). After that they flash the original firmware that came with your device and your phone should work again.
For more information on JTAG check out these links and video.
List of Places Where You can Unbrick your Phone (Scroll down to see the list)
JTAG Riff Box
Wikipedia article on the Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)
YouTube video of some guy demonstrating how to unbrick a Samsung Captivate
Hope this helps
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If your phone is only soft bricked LG will easily be able to tell you rooted it and "installed unauthorized software" on your phone and they very likely won't honor your warranty or offer to fix it. JTAG essentially allows you to restore your phone to its original condition if you have a brick or some soft bricks. What they do is they take apart the back of the phone so they can access the JTAG pads, they then solder wires to the JTAG pads. Next when a connection had been established they hook up the wires to a riff box using a ribbon cable, they then attach a cable from the riff box to the computer. From here they use a special program called Riff Box JTAG manager, to resurrect your device (Restore bootloader, etc.). After that they flash the original firmware that came with your device and your phone should work again.
For more information on JTAG check out these links and video.
List of Places Where You can Unbrick your Phone (Scroll down to see the list)
JTAG Riff Box
Wikipedia article on the Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)
YouTube video of some guy demonstrating how to unbrick a Samsung Captivate
Hope this helps
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So i have to harbrick my phone and then send it to LG?
plomba97 said:
So i have to harbrick my phone and then send it to LG?
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Word of warning: Technically deliberating bricking your phone and getting an insurance replacement is fraud and is a federal offense. The right thing to do would be to bring it and attempt to explain your situation (Or you could play dumb, and maybe they'll help you again they won't be happy and you could be in trouble if they figure out your lying) there is a possibility they will fix it for a reasonable price. In the end you unfortunately might have to buy a new phone,
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Word of warning: Technically deliberating bricking your phone and getting an insurance replacement is fraud and is a federal offense. The right thing to do would be to bring it and attempt to explain your situation (Or you could play dumb, and maybe they'll help you again they won't be happy and you could be in trouble if they figure out your lying) there is a possibility they will fix it for a reasonable price. In the end you unfortunately might have to buy a new phone,
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Ok thank you. What i will do is send it to LG and if they say they wont repair it ill try to repair it myself.
plomba97 said:
Ok thank you. What i will do is send it to LG and if they say they wont repair it ill try to repair it myself.
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Unless you know what your doing you could destroy your phone to the point of it being beyond unbrickable, if LG says they won't repair it for you look online for a local shop in your area that's reputable and knows how to JTAG phones back to life.
What to do in case of a Hard Brick
Buy a new phone.
you try to unbrick it
are several threads on this forum of how to unbrick it
just read them all to figure out
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What to do in case of a Hard Brick
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try getting it to enter download/recovery mode..if it doesn't then use a usb jig..if that doesn't get your phone into download mode then you're better off buying a new phone or get it repaired at a service centre
Hi guys,
my girlfriends (non-rooted, vanilla) HTC Desire X did an OTA update and has been dead ever since. Power on + Volume Down does nothing, removing battery for days didn't change anything and in an USB scan it only appears as the dreaded QHSUSB_DLOAD and never as an USB mass storage device (which is what fastboot etc. tries to look for).
So, I guess the OTA update broke the boot-loader or similar in such a way so the Qualcomm chipset doesn't recognize it anymore, and fallbacks into the USB recovery mode.. and hence I really want to find a way to restore at least as much of the bootloader that I can access the eMMC userdata partition because there are photos I want to recover for her.
I know you can access the bootblock etc. through a soldered JTAG port and the RIFF box or similar, but the phone has warranty and I don't really want to void it by soldering away (in case maybe the phone actually was hardware broken). Also, since the photos on the phone are valuable I don't want to give it to the HTC service guys without at least trying something else first (whom I talked to and they say they would just swap the PCB and have to send in the old one to HTC, so I can't even get it afterwards to do the JTAG surgery on it...)
Any ideas? Is it possible at all to reflash the bootloader through the QHSUSB_DLOAD recovery protocol for these devices?
thanks
mnemonoid said:
Hi guys,
my girlfriends (non-rooted, vanilla) HTC Desire X did an OTA update and has been dead ever since. Power on + Volume Down does nothing, removing battery for days didn't change anything and in an USB scan it only appears as the dreaded QHSUSB_DLOAD and never as an USB mass storage device (which is what fastboot etc. tries to look for).
So, I guess the OTA update broke the boot-loader or similar in such a way so the Qualcomm chipset doesn't recognize it anymore, and fallbacks into the USB recovery mode.. and hence I really want to find a way to restore at least as much of the bootloader that I can access the eMMC userdata partition because there are photos I want to recover for her.
I know you can access the bootblock etc. through a soldered JTAG port and the RIFF box or similar, but the phone has warranty and I don't really want to void it by soldering away (in case maybe the phone actually was hardware broken). Also, since the photos on the phone are valuable I don't want to give it to the HTC service guys without at least trying something else first (whom I talked to and they say they would just swap the PCB and have to send in the old one to HTC, so I can't even get it afterwards to do the JTAG surgery on it...)
Any ideas? Is it possible at all to reflash the bootloader through the QHSUSB_DLOAD recovery protocol for these devices?
thanks
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Ouch. QHSUSB_DLOAD is an effed up thing. What did your girlfriend do after she did the ota? Also what version is it?
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Stereo8 said:
Ouch. QHSUSB_DLOAD is an effed up thing. What did your girlfriend do after she did the ota? Also what version is it?
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Hi, actually she just woke up, saw the phone asking about the upgrade, pressed yes and when she looked at it again later it was dead. So she didn't do anything after, and I think it was the stock android as shipped with the phone when she got it, must have been more than 6 months ago.
I did some research and it seems like the RIFF Box guys made a tool for their RIFF Manager software that can actually set up their DCC Loader monitor without the JTAG port, just using USB and the qualcomm communication (QHSUSB_DLOAD). After that, it's possible to both read and write to the flash areas I guess.
Problem is, they only support up to snapdragon S2 and the Desire X is an S4 (MSM8225 is the chipset as far as I know). Didn't seem that they had any plans to support this anytime soon.
Do you know if the internal flash in the Desire X is an eMMC or a NAND-flash by the way? The one that keeps the userdata and kernel.
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Hi, actually she just woke up, saw the phone asking about the upgrade, pressed yes and when she looked at it again later it was dead. So she didn't do anything after, and I think it was the stock android as shipped with the phone when she got it, must have been more than 6 months ago.
I did some research and it seems like the RIFF Box guys made a tool for their RIFF Manager software that can actually set up their DCC Loader monitor without the JTAG port, just using USB and the qualcomm communication (QHSUSB_DLOAD). After that, it's possible to both read and write to the flash areas I guess.
Problem is, they only support up to snapdragon S2 and the Desire X is an S4 (MSM8225 is the chipset as far as I know). Didn't seem that they had any plans to support this anytime soon.
Do you know if the internal flash in the Desire X is an eMMC or a NAND-flash by the way? The one that keeps the userdata and kernel.
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I'm pretty sure it's emmc... If she didn't press any button combos and just long pressed the power button, she should be fine. But in this case, QHSUSB_DLOAD wasn't called by the user, so that update screwed up something that the system fell back to it...
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Hi I have a HTC one max 8160 t6uhl model bootloader unlocked ,SuperCID rooted with twrp recovery shipped S-off . Just bricked the set while trying to flash a stock splash image. Now it won't boot or respond to any button combination. No display. No LED charging light. Only recognize as QHSUSB_DLOAD on pc. I have a working backed up system firmware and the stock rom have ubuntu too. Can someone tell me or guide me to unbrick the device?
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Hi I have a HTC one max 8160 t6uhl model bootloader unlocked ,SuperCID rooted with twrp recovery shipped S-off . Just bricked the set while trying to flash a stock splash image. Now it won't boot or respond to any button combination. No display. No LED charging light. Only recognize as QHSUSB_DLOAD on pc. I have a working backed up system firmware and the stock rom have ubuntu too. Can someone tell me or guide me to unbrick the device?
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Hi pal. Happened to me. I had to jtag the box with my riffbox to get it back alive.
japodude said:
Hi pal. Happened to me. I had to jtag the box with my riffbox to get it back alive.
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HI Japodude. Yap that's what I thought of when I can't find a solution until I came across this fix in this page which a Guy fixed it by this method. I just need to know is it possible if yes can someone guide me . Will appreciate. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684&page=24 And thanks dude for finding the time to reply me. Appreciate that.
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HI Japodude. Yap that's what I thought of when I can't find a solution until I came across this fix in this page which a Guy fixed it by this method. I just need to know is it possible if yes can someone guide me . Will appreciate. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770684&page=24 And thanks dude for finding the time to reply me. Appreciate that.
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hi pal. i heard it can be done. but i tried on my windows gaming pc and i could not get it to work.
maybee with a mac or linux box. i didnt have access to them.
i bought a riff box jtag as i have an electronics business and i use to fix customers boards/phones.
i can unbrick yours if you pay postage costs. takes 2 mins to unbrick, takes longer to strip phone to get to jtag points.
jtag points are nice size for easy soldering.