Hey Guys,
My Samsung Galaxy S3 is killing me, the problem is the following:
It was working fine one day and the next day, it started giving the error message "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." along with network and wifi going off and on every 5 to 10 seconds, overheating from the sim card and sd card side, and rapid draining of the battery, i have tried all the solutions i found but nothing worked for my case, so i had to go to the ultimate fix which is to recover factory settings, so i have restarted the phone, done the factory settings, and that solved the problem, the phone started fine, i started installing my apps again, and everything seemed ok, after the battery went dead, i replaced it with a charged one (i have a major problem with my charging port, its damaged beyond repair, so i have 2 batteries, using an external charger) then i started the phone, and the new problem happened, the phone is stuck on samsung logo, naturally i went for the factory reset again, but this time (to my great luck) that did not solve it, and i can see the error " E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)" two times.
i have tried copying the md5 file to the sd card and done "apply update from external storage" but it did'nt help.
could anyone help me solve this problem by using the sd card? because i can not us usb cable to use Odin, or all that stuff
by the way, my phone is stock not rooted, jelly beans 4.3
In a twist of events, i actually managed to repair the charging port at a repair shop, the phone is charging normally and detected by windows, now, i have noticed that both samsung kies and smart switch give the message that my device is unsupported, no idea how, so i started using Odin, i have managed to flash twrp recovery to the phone successfully, tried to root the phone while in this state but no luck, got a stock rom from sammobile and i was successful at flashing it to the phone using Odin, but that did not solve the problem, i still think that the problem is the efs partition, its corrupted somehow, i don't know why, my phone was not rooted and never flashed it with a custom rom to expect such corruption, anyways, now my S3 is not stuck on samsung logo, its now caught in a bootloop, ulternating between samsung logo and the android green gut opened logo, i flashed recovery again with CWM, and now the bootloop is not happening, instead when i power the phone it goes to CWM recovery after samsung logo and stays in recovery, i believe the problem got weirder and weirder, any suggestions? how to fix the efs mounting issue without changing or deleting my IMEI, since my phone is not rooted, i did not have any backup of efs.
HI, I have had a variety of problems with my i9000 and so has pretty much everyone
Instead of going down the Odin root and getting mixed up in PIT files, there's a solution which with enough effort can fix almost everything. Use Samsung Kies. The program will restore your phone, no matter what state its in to its factory settings. Mine was so bad it didn't actually have an OS at one point. Once all the drivers are installed and u have connected ur phone, go to tools>emergency firmware recovery and type in the model and serial number. So GT-i9000 and ur serial number. Then put the phone into download mode and then click next and it will fix in about ten minutes. Be patient getting into D/L mode, because it is quite troublesome.
Hope I helped.
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Sorry,after reading, u said u cant use a usb cable. But then how did you copy the file to your sd card. If u cant use a cable at all, like not even at a friends house or something then im sorry. But if you can try what i posted above.
Mihir571 said:
HI, I have had a variety of problems with my i9000 and so has pretty much everyone
Instead of going down the Odin root and getting mixed up in PIT files, there's a solution which with enough effort can fix almost everything. Use Samsung Kies. The program will restore your phone, no matter what state its in to its factory settings. Mine was so bad it didn't actually have an OS at one point. Once all the drivers are installed and u have connected ur phone, go to tools>emergency firmware recovery and type in the model and serial number. So GT-i9000 and ur serial number. Then put the phone into download mode and then click next and it will fix in about ten minutes. Be patient getting into D/L mode, because it is quite troublesome.
Hope I helped.
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Sorry,after reading, u said u cant use a usb cable. But then how did you copy the file to your sd card. If u cant use a cable at all, like not even at a friends house or something then im sorry. But if you can try what i posted above.
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Removing the sd card and using a card reader connected to your pc to put the files over the card is not an issue, but the phone's charging port which doubles as data connection is damaged and can't by changed because its motherboard point of connection is damaged by a stupid technician, so any solution to my problem (other than changing the whole board) would have to include the sd card to get thedata to the phone
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Removing the sd card and using a card reader connected to your pc to put the files over the card is not an issue, but the phone's charging port which doubles as data connection is damaged and can't by changed because its motherboard point of connection is damaged by a stupid technician, so any solution to my problem (other than changing the whole board) would have to include the sd card to get thedata to the phone
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If the phone is in such condition I would try and get it professionally repaired or get a new one. Butttt, because that's not how we do thing at XDA , i would suggest seeing if you could find a flashable file that consists of either stock firmware or a ROM u know is stable. For the S3 GT-i9300 i would suggest any of the ones in development on XDA, most worked for me, or a touchwiz based one thats stable. I think that might help. Also, try rooting it, if possible, and check the efs folder (i think it requires root to access) Check if files look corrupted or are missing compared to what they should be (google this)
Also, just checked, this might be what ur looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-fix-efailed-to-mount-efs-invalid-t2858056
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If the phone is in such condition I would try and get it professionally repaired or get a new one. Butttt, because that's not how we do thing at XDA , i would suggest seeing if you could find a flashable file that consists of either stock firmware or a ROM u know is stable. For the S3 GT-i9300 i would suggest any of the ones in development on XDA, most worked for me, or a touchwiz based one thats stable. I think that might help. Also, try rooting it, if possible, and check the efs folder (i think it requires root to access) Check if files look corrupted or are missing compared to what they should be (google this)
Also, just checked, this might be what ur looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-fix-efailed-to-mount-efs-invalid-t2858056
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Thank you for your reply, but you keep forgetting the dark and gloomy fact that the phone won't start cannot be connected to pc, so rooting the phone is not possible, and correct me if I'm wrong, flashing the rom needs pc as well, I'm guessing if i can restore the efs folder with a stock one that should solve it, but is it possible to navigate to that folder in recovery mode?
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Hi all, I hope somone can help me, I have a TMobile UK Samsung GS2, I have it unlocked and rooted for some time now and have been happily flashing custom ROM's with no problems but a couple of days ago after flashing and update to my current ICS ROM, I am no longer able to connect it to a PC I get an error message saying the device is unrecognised, I have tried 3 different PC's and 3 different cables, I even tired a MAC! I have rolled back to a previous ICS version via nandroid backup and that does not work, I even rolled back to a GB version of a nandroid backup and still no joy, I have tried pretty much every wipe option available and installed from new, it still does not connect, if I boot into download mode odin does not pick it up, Kies does not pick it up, I have an hdmi adapter to plug into my TV that does not work anymore as well as an adapter to connect a flash drive and although the power light on the flash drive shows up the device does not show on the phone, I can charge the phone however. I have posted on the ROM forum on XDA and the guys there have tried to help mainly by different wipe options but nothing has so far worked.
I noticed while experimenting with different kernels that the back around the camera would get very hot, I wonder if something has burnt out, if I am going to try and send it back to TMobile under warranty I guess I need to flash a stock ROM and would have done this through Odin but that is not an option
Does any of you genii out there know how I can fix this?? I am not such a newb and work in IT so have a gut feeling it is a hardware problem that is not easy to fix however one of you may know what to do.
Thanks in advance.
You could use mobile odin to flash the stock rom back, it sounds like your micro usb connector has gone faulty, its a common fault with the Galaxy S2.
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I already answered you in your other post.
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Sorry about that I originally posted here then saw that it was probably the wrong forum, so I reposted, can I remove this one??
Ok guys after hours of wiping a flashing I have got to the bottom of my problem, I tired cleaning the usb port on the phone as suggested in the general forum and tried installing some mobile dev tools from microsoft, neither of which seemed to work, although I did manage to blow quite a bit of dust out with the compressed air!! Then I read a post where one guy was doing all his flashing without the sim and sd card installed, so I took both of them out and would you believe it I plugged my phone into my PC in download mode and odin picked it up! to I booted the phone plugged it back into the PC and voila it picked up the phone without errors as a mass storage device!! , I put the sim back in and tired again, picked up mass storage device again!! , so I figure my sandisk 64gb micro sd card has become corrupt, I have backed it up and formatted it in CWM and now that is picked up too!!! will transfer the data back over to it to be sure it is fine.
I wanted to say a big thanks to all who have offeed advie and help, especially nickmax1, cooza, ger5, daclaus and of course indie for his great rom, I lost the faith for a while there but have it back now thanks to you guys, it is a pleasure to be part of this great community.
Cheers all
I have a SGH-I747M 4.1.1 Galaxy S3.
I used the Unified Toolkit and rooted/installed CWM, backuped and ready for a new ROM.
As I was installing this custom ROM (Pardus HD), and error popped up and it was aborted, (still in the CWM main menu)
but having only the said custom ROM zip file in the internal memory,
I figured I just shut down and download a fresh copy of the ROM.
and put it in an external SD card then power on the phone back into recovery.
Only thing is it wont power on anymore, the screen is just black, plugging in USB and computer just makes connected/disconnected noise.
(Devices say its "Qualcomm HS-USB DQLoader 9008")
Also tried taking out putting in the battery.
(I know my mistake is I never re-installed the backup) I've run out of ideas, please help.
I have a very similar problem. I had my battery checked thinking that could be the problem. My battery shows that is no good. I tried a new one and still nothing. I can't help but think if it were a missing program it would still come on at least. Lucky for me its covered under insurance. I'd still like to know what happened and if I could fix it.
I'd like to know too if I could fix it myself, other than ''the jig'' or a repair service. currenty trying to revive it still
edit: currently trying this Heimdall thing, goodluck to me...
Have you checked the battery? If I wasn't sending mine back on an insurance claim I would take it apart. I have a Motorola that has a fuse next to the battery under the back of the case. Seems dumb, I know but how could changing the rom "short" out my battery. Dumb again I always thought bricking was only being able to bring up recovery.
I think the battery is fine, as CWM was still running after the error.
That's pretty much what happened to me. Maybe we got to the same problem 2 different ways. Hope you get it figured out.
THIS IS GT-I9300 SECTION..
c'mon there was an stickie on top of this section for you..
HERE.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1705
Your problem is that you flashed a rom for gt-i9300 (International) and you have some U.S. variant of s3. That in most cases bricks the phone.
Probably time for a service center visit.
Hello, This is my first Post on XDA so please help me to familiarize myself with rules and procedures and I apologize if I break any in any way.
Okay, So My phone (SM-G900T) is about 5 months old. I bought it in August, Without insurance (Terrible Idea), and now it is having problems. In the amount of time I've had it, I rooted it in mid to late September and used only an app called Xmod for a game. I then started using greenify, solid explorer and eventually used Xposed installer to try a few Xposed modules. Specifically I used, the YouTube adaway, Rich Pandora notification and that's about it. I also later installed Samsung Tools to backup my IMEI and important partitions.
A few days ago my phone randomly rebooted in the middle of a YouTube video so I let it reboot, but it rebooted again, and again, and again. I pulled the battery and turned it back on but the same problem persisted. I couldn't do anything to fix it so I just decided to factory reset the device through the stock recovery. Also, I did not install any custom roms or anything either. The factory reset did nothing. Now when I was in setup, everything force closed, froze and rebooted, repeatedly. So I found the original firmware that my phone came with and flashed it to my phone through Odin because I literally had no hope of what to do anymore. The problem lessened so I didn't install all my apps and overload the device as it would reboot when the RAM would get pretty full or too many things were running simultaneously in the background or foreground. The problem got a little worse so I factory reset one more time and it lessened again but now it came back and factory Resetting isn't lessening the problem. Now it just force closes a bunch of stuff and freezes and reboots into a bootloop midway through initial setup. I am desperate at this point right now and I need help from you guys. I don't have warranty because I rooted and I made the Extremely stupid decision of not getting insurance. So please can anyone help me out? I will be eternally grateful if you can help me turn this $609 brick into a phone again.
I will try to check this thread daily, but I go to school and I may not respond immediately, so please understand.
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Hello, This is my first Post on XDA so please help me to familiarize myself with rules and procedures and I apologize if I break any in any way.
Okay, So My phone (SM-G900T) is about 5 months old. I bought it in August, Without insurance (Terrible Idea), and now it is having problems. In the amount of time I've had it, I rooted it in mid to late September and used only an app called Xmod for a game. I then started using greenify, solid explorer and eventually used Xposed installer to try a few Xposed modules. Specifically I used, the YouTube adaway, Rich Pandora notification and that's about it. I also later installed Samsung Tools to backup my IMEI and important partitions.
A few days ago my phone randomly rebooted in the middle of a YouTube video so I let it reboot, but it rebooted again, and again, and again. I pulled the battery and turned it back on but the same problem persisted. I couldn't do anything to fix it so I just decided to factory reset the device through the stock recovery. Also, I did not install any custom roms or anything either. The factory reset did nothing. Now when I was in setup, everything force closed, froze and rebooted, repeatedly. So I found the original firmware that my phone came with and flashed it to my phone through Odin because I literally had no hope of what to do anymore. The problem lessened so I didn't install all my apps and overload the device as it would reboot when the RAM would get pretty full or too many things were running simultaneously in the background or foreground. The problem got a little worse so I factory reset one more time and it lessened again but now it came back and factory Resetting isn't lessening the problem. Now it just force closes a bunch of stuff and freezes and reboots into a bootloop midway through initial setup. I am desperate at this point right now and I need help from you guys. I don't have warranty because I rooted and I made the Extremely stupid decision of not getting insurance. So please can anyone help me out? I will be eternally grateful if you can help me turn this $609 brick into a phone again.
I will try to check this thread daily, but I go to school and I may not respond immediately, so please understand.
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Do you have SD card installed? If you do try taking it out and leave out or replace with another SdCard. Then flash the original stock firmware as you said you did before through (odin!) Then if that dont work try kias3 and use the emergency firmware recovery tool. Before you do any of this make sure you factory reset through stock recovery if possible.
Sent from my SM-G900T?
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Have you tried this tool? I had the same issue with my phone and reinstalled firmware and stock recovery through this tool and it stopped. If none of these tips work id say your phone may be borked or have faulty hardware. Take a look here as welll. Hope you can get your phone back to normal. I can understand what you're going through, like i said i had same issue with mine and mine has seems to be fine as of now. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2721146 . GOOD LUCK
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Do you have SD card installed? If you do try taking it out and leave out or replace with another SdCard. Then flash the original stock firmware as you said you did before through (odin!) Then if that dont work try kias3 and use the emergency firmware recovery tool. Before you do any of this make sure you factory reset through stock recovery if possible.
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Have you tried this tool? I had the same issue with my phone and reinstalled firmware and stock recovery through this tool and it stopped. If none of these tips work id say your phone may be borked or have faulty hardware. Take a look here as welll. Hope you can get your phone back to normal. I can understand what you're going through, like i said i had same issue with mine and mine has seems to be fine as of now. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2721146 . GOOD LUCK
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Okay, so I'm resetting it back to stock firmware through Odin as we speak. And yes, I had an SD card and have already taken it out and left it out and reset but still the problem has persisted, I will definitely try the solution you just mentioned, here I go. And thank you for replying...
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Hold on, which do you want me to try first? kias3(can you please link it if possible) with emergency firmware recovery tool? OR the Unified Android Toolkit?
Also... I don't exactly know how to use the toolkit, can you verify the steps to take to use the toolkit properly if I should use this solution? I'm sorry but I'm not very advanced at Android development, just intermediately experienced I suppose...
ahmed12534 said:
Okay, so I'm resetting it back to stock firmware through Odin as we speak. And yes, I had an SD card and have already taken it out and left it out and reset but still the problem has persisted, I will definitely try the solution you just mentioned, here I go. And thank you for replying...
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Hold on, which do you want me to try first? kias3(can you please link it if possible) with emergency firmware recovery tool? OR the Unified Android Toolkit?
Also... I don't exactly know how to use the toolkit, can you verify the steps to take to use the toolkit properly if I should use this solution? I'm sorry but I'm not very advanced at Android development, just intermediately experienced I suppose...
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Try kies first that dont work try toolkit. Just Google how to use the toolkit it's pretty self explanatory but I don't think you'll need to use the tool kit anyways. http://www.sammobile.com/kies/
HOW TO USE RECOVERY TOOL IN KIES
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153&page=4
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Try kies first that dont work try toolkit. Just Google how to use the toolkit it's pretty self explanatory but I don't think you'll need to use the tool kit anyways. http://www.sammobile.com/kies/
HOW TO USE RECOVERY TOOL IN KIES
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153&page=4
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okay, I tried resetting it using Kies3 but the device was not recognized so I had to find a different way because the guide on how to use Kies advised using Odin if Kies didn't recognize your phone. I don't have a code either, So I tried reflashing the stock firmware through Odin and it started up, froze and went into what I presume to be a bootloop as it is stuck on the T-Mobile splash screen with the notification light pulsing continuously. Did I also mention where my phone says Knox warranty void 0x1 there is another statement that says "Counter: 4" or something like that, while I am in download mode, does this have any significance? but yeah, other that Kies and Odin, I'm not sure if the android toolkit will help, because it's basically doing that same thing as I am with Odin, just more automated... Or am I wrong?
but as far as I know, that toolkit is literally the last option I have left, I guess I'll be trying that out tomorrow, with option 10 I believe where it says "10. Download, Extract + Flash Stock Firmware via Odin" but I'm not sure what ADB mode means... I can't really boot up the device so I don't know if that applies
Also, on a side note, how much do you think this will cost if I were to send the phone to Samsung and pay for repairs out of pocket, and do you think they could even repair it at all?
You know what... Do you think if I somehow installed CM12 on the device that the problem would fix itself? Because to me it seems like it's the Samsung software itself that is causing all this trouble along with a few Google apps. Now how would I root it and flash CM12 if it won't boot up fully...
Not sure if this would brick my phone either, let me know if it would if I tried to root through Odin and try to install CM12 through CWM recovery or something
Just throwing ideas, hoping this thread doesn't die before my problem is solved
Also, does geeksquad repair Samsung phones one time for a low fee if you've voided warranty?? If so then this could possibly be my final solution.
Also Never EVER buying a Samsung device again, they just aren't what they used to be back in the day, the other OEMs have caught up and left Samsung and their revenue in the dust...
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Also Never EVER buying a Samsung device again, they just aren't what they used to be back in the day, the other OEMs have caught up and left Samsung and their revenue in the dust...
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I disagree with this completely. Very few other handsets can hold a candle to the S5 or the Note 4. I don't know of anybody that has the problems you are describing with their phones without a hardware issue of some type or bad app. The Samsung software runs perfectly on millions of devices without the issues you're having. Therefore it's probably a bad app you've gotten a hold of, or you have a bad phone. CM12 will only introduce more issues and probably won't solve anything.
A stripped down custom rom might be a good bet because you can then start adding your apps back to find out where the issue is, or if it still has the same issues then it almost guarantees that there is some kind of a hardware issue.
Hello I am New Here on this forum so please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong place.
My problem is that I probably bricked My phone and cant Marke IT work again. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos, European model) and rooted it right after i bought it.
I flashed TWRP recovery, installed Titanium backup and Magisk.
Then I made Nandroid backup using TWRP, stored IT on an external sd card in the phone, also flashed this backup to see if IT works, nad everything worden out just fine.
Then I also made a backup of all system and user apps via Titanium backup. And after that began to delete the bloatware. First uninstalled Microsoft word and rebooted, still everything alright. Then uninstalled excel, rebooted also still everything worked fine. Then I decided to check if I can really restore those system apps and restored the previous nandroid backup with TWRP.
After IT finished it said no os installed are you sure you wish to reboot. And I was so dumb to reboot the phone.
It went to Samsung Galaxy logo then and the only thing I can do now is to go Into download mode.
I want to Flash stock Rom from Samsung now but my Windows 7 does not recognize the phone.I Tried with different usb cables, installed the Samsung drivers multiple Times but it still wont recognize it. I also dont know my phones imei and all those numbers i can only go Into download mode nothing else. And I threw that little sticker on the back of my phone away, searched for it in the trash twice and everything from my phone unboxing is there but THIS ONE is not there, its just not there. So i can also Do nothing with smart switch and such.
I have Odin on my Computer( which i also used to Root) but I cant flash anything in download mode as long as that f*cking computer won't recognize the phone.
And I also think that i might NOT have enabled USB debugging. Im not sure but it might be. I dont know how to do this externally without having access to my phone. And also wehen I leave download mode and try to boot into the normal system it Shows that battery that always shows up when you charge your phone, but it stays gray and seems not to charge at all.
Sorry for the long text but i am really desperate. I have no money at all to buy a new phone and I really need a phone with Access to Internet. Its basically a life or death situation, I need to get out of the place I am as in right now as fast as possible so I must make the device running again!!! I can't eben be sure if what im writing here is not being monitored.
So please I would appreciate any help that makes me save my phone, please help me!
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Hello I am New Here on this forum so please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong place. My problem is that I probably bricked My phone and cant Marke IT work again. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 (Exynos, European model) and rooted it right after i bought it...
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I don't have this device but, the following area of the forum is specific to your device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7
With that stated...
Your best bet is to post this question within the following thread.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3341138
Good Luck!
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Hey all,
First i'd like to tell my phone was 'working' as it was able to go to download mode.
Im not really an expert, but when I used Google to find a solution for my error I read about using Odin.
(In case you need the error, I will try to edit the thread and add this asap!)
I followed a tutorial about using Odin and tried to get my phone up back and running.
I downloaded the following file for my Samsung J5:
sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-j5/SM-J500FN/PHN/download/J500FNXXS1BQG3/181971/
After using the Odin software it somehow got interrupted while installing. (cable came loose I guess, I heard the connect/disconnect sound shortly after each other)
Also I noticed there was a small red text on the screen complaining about the available size on the phone.
Even though the phone installation was interrupted, the phone was still able to get into download mode.
Next up, I decided to place a micro SD card to get extra storage space and retried the Odin process. The final result was a "PASS" (see screenshot)
i.imgur.com/WzFJLaQ.jpg
After the update was done 'succesfully' the phone screen immediately turned to black.
There were no signs of life anymore, not even accessing boot mode / recovery mode no nothing.
I've bought an USB JIG, but sadly also with the JIG I had no luck.
Is there any way to get my phone back and running? or can anyone give me some advice?
I really hope someone can help me out!
Sounds like a hard brick ?
This happens when you try to upgrade or downgrade, some devices don´t allow this or the firmware is not matching.
Pull out battery if it is removable for some minutes then try normal method, if not....
Here the correct method to do a jig by your own or maybe it´s better to buy one (it´s not expensive) to made sure that is correctly made http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-JIG-to-give-life-to-your-Bricked-mobile/
Also you can try with Smart Switch https://youtu.be/y8AZyalTf5Y
Sands207 said:
Sounds like a hard brick ?
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