Hello,
I bought used Mi Box, which appears to be wierdly acting.
It boots normally to android, then I get black screen, with smart alert in corner about wifi not being connected but I cant do nothing. After few mins the device goes into screensaving mode where i can see pictures, only thing that work at this moment is adjusting volume so I know that the remote is working, I also put up somehow the pairing animation and it went well, but nothing more.
I though I could just reset it trough recovery, but thats where the real issue starts. It just wont do. I am pretty sure I am doing it right. I tried shorting pins to flash img from usb burning tool. (small experiences from other amlogic devices) But I havent found any working img that can be flashed there.
Thanks for your replies.
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Last night I bought a brand new Streak 5 from a local guy. Box was sealed, no mention of refurb, inner contents were sealed.
I didn't have time to test it and the guy I bought it from said he had gotten it a while back from a work raffle and that it had been sitting in a drawer in his house - I have no reason not to trust that he was lying to me.
When I actually got time to unbox it, I popped the battery in and tried to turn it on. The menu buttons lit up briefly and then when out. The screen never came on. Since then, it has been completely unresponsive.
I've tried to charge it with the wall charger, as well as my PC. Neither seem to be doing anything and my PC doesn't recognize it - even with Dell's software installed.
I've tried to take out the battery and hook it up to the wall charger and my PC to get it to turn on.
I've removed the Micro SD.
There is no SIM card in it currently.
I ordered another battery and an external battery charger. They should be here in a few days. I have the current battery rigged up and charging with a spliced USB cord.
What else can I do? I feel like I've done everything "simple" thus far and I'm a little nervous when it comes to utilities like Streakflash.
I'm coming over from the iPhone world and my Android use has been limited at best. Any help is appreciated.
What happens on the device itself after having had a chance to charge?
Does it light up when you press the power button, or nothing at all?
Thanks for the response.
There is no indication that it's charging. The screen doesn't come on, or even flash. The buttons do not light up. However, I don't believe it's the cable or the connector since my PC responds with an unrecognized device -- "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM" prompt. I also managed to get my PC to tell me that the device "wasn't plugged in."
I've tried to get some response out of it in every possible combination regarding the buttons, battery, back cover, microSD, and where it's plugged in. It just sits there. No lit screen, no lit menu buttons, nothing.
If it helps, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I've installed every possible thing I could find regarding the Dell drivers and my OS.
It sounds like your device somehow got shipped without having all the software installed onto it.
Can you provide more information about the device itself, such as it's manufacture date or any other info on the box/device labels? Devices getting shipped half baked like that isnt exactly common.
This sounds like a legitamate time to use QDL tool to reflash it, but I cant provide any help with that as I've never used it.
Can you use QDLTool if your computer doesn't even recognize it?
The date on the label is 10/12/2010.
If it's displaying as "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM" that's a sign that it should be able to get into upload mode as that's what the driver qdl tool uses I believe.
It's likely out of warrentee already, so you prob have to fix it on your own if at all.
I can't get it to respond to anything I do. It's very disheartening. I really, really wanted this phone, too.
I'm downloading the latest version of Ubuntu. I'm going to see if I can make any headway through Linux.
I can't get QDLTool to pick-up the device, either. I get an error message when I try to use it and scanning for it does nothing.
Did you install the driver bundled with it properly?
If it still doesnt detect it after that it's likely a dud
use qdltool, you can download it from here
http://www.box.com/s/rj9xd5tl7v5amimbm3youll need to make sure you have all drivers installed though, info is on this forum somewhere,
once installed run the software on pc you should see a big box with "run" on it, click run then connect phone by holding volume up and connecting usb then qdltool will do rest from there
when i got my both my dell streak it was the same deal. first one came exactly as how you described it. I put in the battery, made SURE THAT THE CONNECTORS ARE lined up on the back case, and then tried to power it on. NOTHING.
It seems even if the battery was fully charged, the only real way to turn it on was to connect the streak to the power adapter and then press hold down the on button. WHen the device finally gave me the dell logo, it would just sit there stuck. So i took out the battery, and redid it. Then went into fastboot mode (hold camera and power) and it wouldnt detect the touch screen. It seems that the touch scree was faulty and hence it would remain stuck on the dell logo. I tried to calibrate the touch screen a few times, all failed. Then finally for one time it worked, and the touch screen came back to life. Shortly after though upon booting into the old stage 1.6, it restarted and the touch screen failed again.
So i sent it back to rogers and they gave me a replacement phone. Same deal, when you first put in the battery and the case it wouldnt start no matter what. Only upon plugging it into the power adapter then it starts up. However this new one had a functional touch screen.
1) check out the touch screen by using the fastboot, or stock recovery. If you get error messages, it means your screen is toast most likely and then you might have to open her up and see if all the connections are lined up
2) if it doesnt boot at all, try connecting it to the power adapter first and then after about 30 seconds power it on. You should be able to see the dell logo unless as the guys stated before the software is hosed.
3) if the software is totally hosed, tried to get it into fastboot mode or recovery and see if you can reflash the device.
something like that...
Thanks for the comments, guys.
As of now, it's still in the same position it was in. It doesn't respond to any combinations of buttons, battery in/or, or plugged into the wall/pc.
I'm assuming that the situation it's in currently is what's preventing any sort of legitimate connection between the phone and my PC.
My last shot is a battery and external charger that should be here next week.
I am pretty sure that someone has posted something similar to my problem, but I can't find anything that gives a straight up answer or seems to kind of deviation of the problem.
So I do have cyanagen mod 10 stable installed on my phone and it has been great... No problems what so ever. I'm not sure if something happened or if it was something that I had changed, but the only thing system wise that I had changed was under the ROM Tool Box, I had edited the screen settings to change the dpi of the screen. However, everything worked fine after it changed and rebooted. In fact, I loved the fact that screen was now "bigger..." Meaning that it made the icons and text smaller.
So, now the problem comes, now the phone doesn't load up. The battery died and I plugged the phone into charge it and it turned on like normal with the little loading image of a circle (like the one you seen when a flash file is loading) and then it blinked and did it again, but then nothing. Normally if you let it sit for a second and press the power button, it would show an image of the battery charging. But it doesn't. If I press and hold the power button, it starts to laod up and says "Samung Vibrant" then goes black, and then repeats Samung Vibrant again and again....
Now I am not a super genius on the android thing, but I have flashed many different ROMs and thought I had bricked my phone many times as well, but always have been able to bring it back to life. I am actually starting to think of my phone as "Frankenstien" since it has died and came back so many times...
Now, I have tried to reboot into recovery mode but doing the volume + and - and power, didn't work.
I have tired to boot into download as well...
The phone can be plugged into the computer and it recognizes it as far as sending out a charge to "charge" the phone, but it does not recognize it in Kies or in Odin. I reinstalled the drivers as well and still not recognized... I know the phone is "old" as far as that goes, but it was working fine and currently unemployed, so every penny counts.
Suggestions?
I unfortunately hard bricked my VSD220 the other day while trying to upgrade the android system. Bit of a noobie at this and learnt the hardway. The problem I have now is that the unit powers on but i get a totally black screen and a small panel saying "waiting" this disappears and then after a minute or so the unit powers off.
I have tried a number of flash tools using ADB and the device is not located. I cannot get into boot mode on this device as it has only a power button.
Apart from using this as a fishing sinker is there any other flash tools I might be able to use to do a lazarus on this thing and bring it back from the dead?
When plugged into the PC and turned on it is not recognized.
I have tried the Nexus root tool kit and Odin but Odin cannot located the adb for the device. cheers.
Exactly same thing happened to me but I wasn't trying anything weird on it, It happened while doing a factory reset (from android settings) and it just went off in the middle of factory resetting so now the only thing that works is plugging in a HDMI input so it works as a TV but still shows the "waiting..." box for a while and then nothing.. I also connected it to the router lan port using a pc-to-router lan cable and I can see the send/receive lights blink for some seconds and then go off (both in tv and in router), lights blink again after about 30/40 secs.. so I'm guessing this is a bootloop restarting the android part and keeping the HDMI working?.
****ing vsd220 I hate it, if you are reading this, don't buy one. It will be VERY troublesome to me having to send it to retailer for warranty coverage because of my geographic location.. I will appreciate feedback on the subject
Also Matt57 did your screen come with a CD/DVD? I have read other samsung screen models being able to recover with a external usb-dvd-r device and the DVD included with the screen (a kind of boot recovery helper). If this one came with the cd I don't have it, so if you got one, please make an iso and upload.
Matt57 said:
I unfortunately hard bricked my VSD220 the other day while trying to upgrade the android system. Bit of a noobie at this and learnt the hardway. The problem I have now is that the unit powers on but i get a totally black screen and a small panel saying "waiting" this disappears and then after a minute or so the unit powers off.
I have tried a number of flash tools using ADB and the device is not located. I cannot get into boot mode on this device as it has only a power button.
Apart from using this as a fishing sinker is there any other flash tools I might be able to use to do a lazarus on this thing and bring it back from the dead?
When plugged into the PC and turned on it is not recognized.
I have tried the Nexus root tool kit and Odin but Odin cannot located the adb for the device. cheers.
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vsd220 bricked
gattytto said:
Exactly same thing happened to me but I wasn't trying anything weird on it, It happened while doing a factory reset (from android settings) and it just went off in the middle of factory resetting so now the only thing that works is plugging in a HDMI input so it works as a TV but still shows the "waiting..." box for a while and then nothing.. I also connected it to the router lan port using a pc-to-router lan cable and I can see the send/receive lights blink for some seconds and then go off (both in tv and in router), lights blink again after about 30/40 secs.. so I'm guessing this is a bootloop restarting the android part and keeping the HDMI working?.
****ing vsd220 I hate it, if you are reading this, don't buy one. It will be VERY troublesome to me having to send it to retailer for warranty coverage because of my geographic location.. I will appreciate feedback on the subject
Also Matt57 did your screen come with a CD/DVD? I have read other samsung screen models being able to recover with a external usb-dvd-r device and the DVD included with the screen (a kind of boot recovery helper). If this one came with the cd I don't have it, so if you got one, please make an iso and upload.
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Sorry mate, no I did not get a CD/DVD with it.
If it ain't broke...see if it'll go faster. That's what I tried, BUT ended up
If it ain't broke...fix it 'til it is!
I posted this in XDA Assist, but as I suspected, I've well hosed this one, with probably no way up, but here goes. I promise, next time I won't be so wild. I know now that if you must burn your bridges, don't be standing on them!
Android 4.2.2
It's rooted with Vroot, has SuperSU and Titanium Backup Pro, shows rooted.
Had ADB working, tablet taking commands.
I first tried to put in CWM recovery for the HSG1279, supposed to be the same tablet, just bigger screen. I don't even know now whether THAT'S true or not.
Started in recovery mode, but was just stock, so I tried arctools to put in a generic Rockchip CWM 6.0.3.1. That's when things started going sideways. The install hung (imagine that!). The arctools had a forced restart of some kind, so I used that. When I got back to my home screen (whew!), I used Titanium backup to see what recovery mode looked like. The tablet went dark, and would not power on. I did the paper clip trick, which got it started, but did NOT wipe anything out, so not a hard reset. Any time after that when I tried to restart in recovery mode, the hard shutdown with the clip was required. Yesterday afternoon, I went off to work for about 3 hours, leaving the tablet on, but in standby. When I came back, the tablet was dark and no amount of paper clipping would help. It would not recognize a charge. Not being one to duck a fight, I opened the case and unsoldered the black (-) wire at the PC board. The battery measured some voltage, but I didn't notice how much, about 1/4 on the 25v. scale. I soldered it back on, put it back together without any further incident. It sill does just what it was doing...nothing. I have noticed that when it's plugged into my PC's USB port, and I reset with the clip, Unknown Device shows up in my PC's Devices And Printers list. When I unplug the cable, I get the stock Windows "be-boop" USB removal sound. When I plug it back in, I get a short "boo-boo-boop" sound. That's where it is now. Anyone have any ideas on getting it going again? For me, no more trying files that aren't made specifically for this oddball tablet. This has been a fairly expensive lesson in that.
Thanks for any help.
~Bob~
Hey guys. I'll try to keep this brief. I bought a Redmi Note 3 Pro "global edition" online, which says it supports my carrier's bands. It got here, but it wasn't working with my SIM (said something about a network error). From what I found, it seemed to be because of the ROM that came with it (it didn't allow me to select any English speaking country from the list during setup). So I found the one I needed, followed some highly rated instructions to flash it, and it got stuck at like 99% with an error. That's when the phone seemingly hard-bricked. No display whatsoever, any combination of buttons held down did nothing. The only thing was a red flashing LED (when power button held or when plugged in). It is detected by my computers in device manager, but only comes up as "Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E", which doesn't allow me to flash it or really do anything with it on the computer. I've tried literally everything I could find about it, both software-wise and hardware; I made a deep flash cable, tried it multiple times to no avail. Then I finally took the phone apart to get at the testpoint; it did nothing besides cause the red LED to flicker a little in its pattern. I've contacted a bunch of phone repair places near me, but none seem to be able to do anything for me. Do I have any options left at this point?
broodyr said:
Hey guys. I'll try to keep this brief. I bought a Redmi Note 3 Pro "global edition" online, which says it supports my carrier's bands. It got here, but it wasn't working with my SIM (said something about a network error). From what I found, it seemed to be because of the ROM that came with it (it didn't allow me to select any English speaking country from the list during setup). So I found the one I needed, followed some highly rated instructions to flash it, and it got stuck at like 99% with an error. That's when the phone seemingly hard-bricked. No display whatsoever, any combination of buttons held down did nothing. The only thing was a red flashing LED (when power button held or when plugged in). It is detected by my computers in device manager, but only comes up as "Qualcomm HS-USB Diagnostics 900E", which doesn't allow me to flash it or really do anything with it on the computer. I've tried literally everything I could find about it, both software-wise and hardware; I made a deep flash cable, tried it multiple times to no avail. Then I finally took the phone apart to get at the testpoint; it did nothing besides cause the red LED to flicker a little in its pattern. I've contacted a bunch of phone repair places near me, but none seem to be able to do anything for me. Do I have any options left at this point?
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Can you go to fastboot mode (press volume down + power botton together until bunny appears) ?
Nabin Pokhrel said:
Can you go to fastboot mode (press volume down + power botton together until bunny appears) ?
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Nope. Literally nothing I do will get anything to come up on the screen.
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if you're in 900e, means the phone is prolly not dead. remove the back, get to your board, plug it to your pc and keep on holding your tweezers until the pc recognizes it as a 9008 device. then just use flash tool. it takes time, u should be patient. refer to the vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDLV4LdEBHk
this thing is pretty unbreakable, unless its really fried, in which case, well, trash it
this is soft brick , not to worry , the flashing red is EDL mode ...this guide is for note 3 pro but will work with you http://en.miui.com/thread-235865-1-1.html
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if you're in 900e, means the phone is prolly not dead. remove the back, get to your board, plug it to your pc and keep on holding your tweezers until the pc recognizes it as a 9008 device. then just use flash tool. it takes time, u should be patient. refer to the vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDLV4LdEBHk
this thing is pretty unbreakable, unless its really fried, in which case, well, trash it
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Alright, I was just using a flimsy wire before but I do have a good pair of tweezers coming in the mail. I'll give it another shot as soon as I get those.
tdassa said:
this is soft brick , not to worry , the flashing red is EDL mode ...this guide is for note 3 pro but will work with you http://en.miui.com/thread-235865-1-1.html
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I appreciate the effort, but I'm positive it's not in EDL mode. I've looked at just about every guide out there, including that one. It isn't detected by XiaoMiFlash, and I can't get it into actual EDL mode either.
Thanks guys
it wont work with miflash if it's not in 9008 mode which is effectively edl. as far as tweezers go, i used a safety pin and it worked fine. it will work, just repeat the process a few times