I resolved problem from my last topic, but now I have the new one. Every soft or hard reset the phone turns it in to bootloader mode. If i want to quit from bootloader i must remove the battery cover, put it back and plug the charger - this is only way to turn on the device.
I can't upgrade the software, because after device turns in bootloader mode everything hangs up, flash software can't do the job. Also upgrade from SD card dosn't work, MDA can't read it.
I have a warranty, but with changed software it is uselessness
What should I do?
EDIT: I found soft-reset, i can make ib by removing the cover of the battery, as you know cover is connecter with hardware-button which turns device off. I suspect, that in my device soft-reset button and combination for hard-reset (power + soft-reset) have been mapped to bootloader mode. And I must only change this mapping to it's old valutes.
Does anybody know how to do that?
PS. Magician is fully functional, i even restored backup (from ActiveSync)
I have the same problem. Does anybody know how to fix it?
reflashing to the new wm6 lookalike rom worked for me... you can probably try flashing back to the standard 1.13 after that.
Bootloader
The bootloader is damaged and msuffering the same fate. i cannot upgrade or re flash as the computer won't recognise the device, i have a copy of the bootloader file i have downloaded off a website, but don't know how to replace the damaged one with this one.
I may just replace the phone and retire it.
help please
hello everybody, i have a VPA compact vodafone, when i was trying to upgrad it, it switched off, and now there's only usb v1.02 on screen, what can i do, help please
thank u
My universal was upgraded from tomal (ranju) 7.7 rom to the 8.2 and now im stuck on the boot screen and cannot go to bootloader mode because my power button is broken, so now what? im assuming im screw'd. right?.. anyone?
Also, what is kitl mode? can that help me?
Doh, got it all wrong. Try http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Uni_Stuck_Bootloader but I had success just getting the PC recognizing the device and re-flashing the ROM. The bootloader screen appeared at some point during the flash.
Thanks for the reply. The problem is that i cannot connect to activesync because my universal is stuck on the screen where it shows you the rom and radio. I can use my memory stick to load any files via my sd card port on my laptop but i cannot connect my uni to activesync since its stuck on the splash screen. If i need a specific file to boot my uni straight to bootloader boot when the phone boots up via the sd card i can do that. Any suggestions?
-UPDATE- Oh wow once i got back to the reply i saw your correction...lolz. ill try that.. thanks X-D
Ok, try hard resetting or a soft reset first. Well, you probably already tried, but nevertheless... DON'T PANIC!
How broken is your power button?
oh its broken...off the motherboard need to be soldered broken.lolz.. i tried the method you said and it doesnt work =-(.. Is there any file for windows mobile that you can put on the external memory card such as the sd for the uni so that it can force the phone to bootloader as soon as the phone boots?
-Edit: it seems like the only way i can fix this problem is if someone backs up their rom to their memory stick and sends it to me some sort of way so that i can put it on my memory stick and do tomals sd upgrade and hope that it re-updates it.. =-(
jxs714 said:
oh its broken...off the motherboard need to be soldered broken.lolz.. i tried the method you said and it doesnt work =-(.. Is there any file for windows mobile that you can put on the external memory card such as the sd for the uni so that it can force the phone to bootloader as soon as the phone boots?
-Edit: it seems like the only way i can fix this problem is if someone backs up their rom to their memory stick and sends it to me some sort of way so that i can put it on my memory stick and do tomals sd upgrade and hope that it re-updates it.. =-(
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The only file you can use is called Enter Bootloader, it comes with a standard ROM upgrade folder, I recommended it at first, but then realized you won't be able to access it from your Uni, seeing you are stuck. There is a ROM upgrade from SD thread somewhere, it can be done, but not if you are stuck, it's for the broken USB ports.
mtty?
Mtty no good because it doesnt pick up the phone via usb
Have you tried the below method on wiki
Method 2
Steps
download the tool
disconnect USB cable from your device
disable USB connection in ActiveSync
reconnect USB cable
wait some 30 seconds
run the tool
If successful, device will boot itself.
So I got a little bit overzealous and accidentally flashed a gsm rom to my cdma phone (we all make mistakes) and now it just hangs at the Touch Pro2 splash screen. I can still enter the recovery mode but it does nothing when I run the recovery. Is there anything I can do? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
-SeptimusX25
hold power and volume down and hit the reset button, keep holding power and vol down until you see the tricolor bootloader screen, from there you can connect to your computer and flash a new rom
I think we need to make a sticky pointing our what people have done wrong to make them think they have bricked their phone and then how to fix it, because there are a lot of posts saying potential bricking phones and it is the same fix everytime.
Well you may be about people knowing the definition of brick but the suggestion for installing a new rom does not work because even in the colored boot screen my computer does not detect that it is connected and hence I cannot reinstall a new rom. Is there a driver I need to install to get my phone to be detected sans operating system or some software i need to install? I have a feeling once my computer detects my phone it will be smooth sailing from there. Thanks again for your prompt replies.
when i plug mine in it automatically installs a driver (ive done this on multiple computers using multiple OSes) and the white bar at the bottom changes from saying Serial to saying USB, then i can flash a rom as normal
another way im not as familiar with but im sure with a little searching you can find help, would be flashing directly from the SD card, i did it once for a radio rom but dont recall the exact procedure, sorry
I tried flashing the phone from the sd card using this method:
"Step 1: find the rom/radio you wish to flash and download it
Step 2: extract the .nbh file out of said rom package (will usually be named RUU_SIGNED.nbh if the rom is packed in an exe use pocket rar to extract from your phone or 7zip/winrar from your pc)
Step 3: rename the .nbh file to RHODIMG.nbh
step 4: place rom on the root of your SD card (meaning not in any folders)
step 5: power down the device completely
step 6: hold volume down and power (sleep/wake button on the Verizon variant) till the screen boots into bootloader mode (red green blue screen)
step 7: when prompted press power to flash
step 8: wait for it to finish, sometimes it will restart on its own, sometime you need to restart it yourself but make sure you wait for the flash successful screen.
".
It gave me the same result as before. Also, Is it typical for the bootloader screen to only flash for a second and then get a grey screen that prompts you for action? Thats what my phone does, it shows a grey screen immediately after the bootscreen with 3 options which are: 1. "restore factory settings" 2. "Use custom configuration" and 3. "take no action and restart the phone" I tried both options 1and 2 with the sdcard method and got nothing. I also plugged my phone into my laptop and it installed microsoft usb sync driver but the mightyrom RUU, or any RUU for that matter, does not detect the phone, I get an error[264]: connection. Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it.
If I can't fix it tonight, I'm taking it to the store tommorrow see if I can get it replaced
no, that shouldnt happen, it should stay at the red/green/blue screen, ive never seen the screen you describe
one thing you want to try is formatting your micro sd card to a fat32 then install the continue with the rest of the steps you described. i know this because i did the exact same thing you did. but now I'm typing from the same phone actually it happened a few times works everytime. i just know to triple check your rom to make sure its for your device. meaning gsm or cdma oh and dont forget to remove the sd card after the install and its best if the nbh is the only item on your card when you perform the flash.
@septimusx25 Thank you for posting this! I'm a noob and had the same problem with mine and thought it was a gonner. I was sweatin bullets! LoL
@sapperpipo Thanks for the SOLUTION! It worked perfectly and now I can use my baby again.
is there any way to flash hard spl without have activesync connection??
There was talk about a year ago of flashing via a mini-SD card, the idea was to take the nbh file that comes out of the Cheetah-unlocker.exe (you'll find it in its temp folder), put it on a Fat32 formatted mini-SD, and reset the Treo while holding the media/hands-free button.
I've never tried it, since I half-bricked a Treo trying to do it the ActiveSync way. I restored the Treo, btw, which I am wondering, most of the hard spl tutorials I saw for the Treo, they are incomplete because they lacked 1 crucial step: you have to unlock your phone. And I mean really unlock it, not code-unlock it. The very first step everyone needs to do is run MagicUnlocker to inject the SuperCID, then HardSPL will work. I bricked my first Treo because nobody mentioned the SuperCID (my Treo was bought unlocked already)
And, chances are, if your Treo boots halfway then stops, you can save it. Really, that's how I saved mine: you need any of Palm's official ENG ROMs, load it onto a Fat32 formatted mini-SD, and do the above mentioned reset method. Flash the ROM and your Treo is restored (remember, there has to be a way for the Treo to turn on for this to work.)
my phone bricked when i tried to hard spl unlock. and now my phone goes to the red/blue/green screen when i hold the ppt button and reset. and will freeze on the windows mobile splash screen if i just do a reset
so if i do what u say (load official rom on formatted sd card + reset holding ppt) i will be able to save my treo?
thanks for the response btw
Ah, sorry for late reply, yeah, as long as you will get to the rainbow colored screen it can be saved (Palm ROM renamed to CHEEIMG.nbh on a Fat32 formatted MiniSD card), reset while holding ppt and it'll recognize the ROM. Plug in an AC charger too to keep it going.
It wasn't mentioned, but I advise you take out your SIM card while you do this. It might make a difference (in fact, I always do this, call it memories of the Samsung Blackjack ROM upgrade rule)
Maybe that's why a Hermes Radio can't be overwitten sometimes...
This is my first thread and the reason for registering, I hope you can help me.
My SM-N915FY seems to have died a week ago. I had the dreaded MMC_READ_FAIL error since four months, but I kept using the phone and lived with the sudden crashes since I had no money to buy another, and for me it has to have the S-Pen feature.
I made the stupid mistake not backing up data regularly tho... since I was able to reboot it every time with the old "remove everything and wait, before reboot wiggle all switches" trick.
It's state now: No signs of life whatsoever. Will not boot normally and also not into any emergency mode (Recovery, Download etc). I just tried it now after having it in the freezer for a few hours (since I read that this might help it).
I ruled out that the battery might be the cause of it - it crashed while recharging - and I tested if the battery still had charge by holding it's contacts to the battery contacts of an old Galaxy SII and it shows the battery as nearly full. Also my Note Edge won't boot with the SII battery either.
The only thing that happens is a connect / disconnect sound when I connect it via USB to a computer running Windows where I installed the drivers earlier.
I want to recover the data since I need it. Is there anything I can do? I even thought about desoldering it's flash chip to read it out on a computer. I've never done this, just read that it is principally possible. It just might be complicated because on this model Samsung decided to combine the 3GB RAM and the 32GB Flash into one die... Didn't research if that might make this effort impossible.
Fact is that I would need a SMD rework station for that, but since I wanted to learn to solder SMD parts anyway I need one of those anyway....
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After a bit of research I found this useful post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
I just tried it (after being able to source a micro SD card finally - short on cash at the moment, my own are somewhere where I can't find them - a used goods / electronics shop just gave me a 2GB one) and it worked! It didn't matter that the BL linked there is for the SM-N915F, it worked with my SM-N915FY. It went straight into Download mode and I flashed TWRP. After Odin finished my phone rebooted, and straight into Android with no errors. It's still a bit sluggish, but now I'm copying all the data and then I'll try this tutorial, maybe the dredes MMC read fail will be gone then: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66879466&postcount=10
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After a bit of research I found this useful post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
I just tried it (after being able to source a micro SD card finally - short on cash at the moment, my own are somewhere where I can't find them - a used goods / electronics shop just gave me a 2GB one) and it worked! It didn't matter that the BL linked there is for the SM-N915F, it worked with my SM-N915FY. It went straight into Download mode and I flashed TWRP. After Odin finished my phone rebooted, and straight into Android with no errors. It's still a bit sluggish, but now I'm copying all the data and then I'll try this tutorial, maybe the dredes MMC read fail will be gone then: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66879466&postcount=10
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Good luck with it.
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Good luck with it.
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Unfortunately no luck yet. It got through the whole re-flashing described in that tutorial just once, but then it got stuck in recovery while it said "Upgrading firmware" (or something) with the droid animation... Some times it reached the stock recovery menu after the animation where I tried "reboot" since the tutorial wanted the user to launch the OS and wipe the data there again. But it never got there...
Not counting the numerous other attempts where it refused to commence flashing (giving me a fail at the start with differing error messages) or just went halfway through...
I wanted to gave this a try: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71757019&postcount=27
It flashed TWRP (twrp-3.2.1-0-tblte.img) foun here https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxynote4edgeint.html once successfully but then it didn't boot into TWRP, gave me that "Recovery is not senandroid enforcing"... I read that this could mean that I flashed the wrong version.
Edit: TWRP 3.1.0 seems to work better, at least it doesn't produce the senandroid error, but the phone didn't completely boot into TWRP, i pulled the battery after it was sitting on the TWRP boot screen for a few minutes. Have to try again if it can manage to boot into TWRP...
Most important thing tho is that I was able to recover the data. I installed Lineage 14.1 on an old Galaxy S2 for now... don't know for how long I have to use this spare phone. I'm looking to buy an Note 5 maybe, but I couldn't find out which versions of it work fine in Germany and if that has similar dreadful flaws - don't want such a fiasco again.
Edit 2: Bought a Note 5 SM-N920C now for 230 € - the version which has the essential LTE band 20 (for people in Germany at least). Bye Note Edge, bugs me that you didn't last longer.
scragnothh said:
After a bit of research I found this useful post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
I just tried it (after being able to source a micro SD card finally - short on cash at the moment, my own are somewhere where I can't find them - a used goods / electronics shop just gave me a 2GB one) and it worked! It didn't matter that the BL linked there is for the SM-N915F, it worked with my SM-N915FY. It went straight into Download mode and I flashed TWRP. After Odin finished my phone rebooted, and straight into Android with no errors. It's still a bit sluggish, but now I'm copying all the data and then I'll try this tutorial, maybe the dredes MMC read fail will be gone then: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66879466&postcount=10
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hello.. please provide more info.. i'm stuck in the same problem and nothing seems to work. i'd be thankful for your help-
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scragnothh said:
After a bit of research I found this useful post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
I just tried it (after being able to source a micro SD card finally - short on cash at the moment, my own are somewhere where I can't find them - a used goods / electronics shop just gave me a 2GB one) and it worked! It didn't matter that the BL linked there is for the SM-N915F, it worked with my SM-N915FY. It went straight into Download mode and I flashed TWRP. After Odin finished my phone rebooted, and straight into Android with no errors. It's still a bit sluggish, but now I'm copying all the data and then I'll try this tutorial, maybe the dredes MMC read fail will be gone then: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66879466&postcount=10
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can you please provide an image of this SD card you have.. or any piece of information would be helpful
thank you again.
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hello.. please provide more info.. i'm stuck in the same problem and nothing seems to work. i'd be thankful for your help-
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can you please provide an image of this SD card you have.. or any piece of information would be helpful
thank you again.
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Hi, just follow the guide in https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
Download the image file posted there, the link is still valid.
Any old small micro SD card should work as that debrick image is not huge at all - it just contains the essential files which enables the phone to boot again.
Recover (if necessary) any data that is still on the SD card because all data on the card will be lost.
I used an USB-stick-type SD card reader with an adapter Micro-SD->Full Sized SD
Use any program that can make bootable USB sticks (Win32DiskImager is just one example)
Load the image file downloaded before into the program and use the SD card (either in a card reader plugged into USB or inside an internal reader) as the target and let itdo it's thing
If it worked, your SD card size should be only a few MB now (you can re-format it later to get back it's full capacity)
Make sure your battery has charge left - and note that your phonecan't charge it's own battery in the state it's in. So, get another Samsung (as mentioned, the Galaxy S2 even works), hold the battery to it's contacts and try to boot it (make sure not to mix up + and - !). If you need to charge the battery, use for example packaging tape to keep the battery in place (since it can't stay in place on it's own as it's of another shape).
On 8. I used the key combo to get it into download mode, don't know what an USB Jig is.
On 9., I pulled the SD card as described and flashed the compatible TWRP via Odin using a Windows Computer. It rebooted by itself and therefore into the firmware it had before it died. Recover all your data and buy another phone.
Because you can't get it ever to work properly again, since it's a hardware flaw (at least if you encountered that MMC_READ_FAIL error).Maybe you can get it repaired / replaced by Samsung bit for me that was out of the question since I bought my Note Edge used. Switched to a Note 5 which still works flawlessly. Maybe the Note 8 is already cheap enough for you. Or look elsewhere, another Samsung, or another brand whatsoever. But if you want to switch brands, you need to recover your data with a 3rd party app, not with Samsung's SmartSwitch, since that one will only recover to another Samsung device.
Feel free to ask me if you still need help.
scragnothh said:
Hi, just follow the guide in https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
Download the image file posted there, the link is still valid.
Any old small micro SD card should work as that debrick image is not huge at all - it just contains the essential files which enables the phone to boot again.
Recover (if necessary) any data that is still on the SD card because all data on the card will be lost.
I used an USB-stick-type SD card reader with an adapter Micro-SD->Full Sized SD
Use any program that can make bootable USB sticks (Win32DiskImager is just one example)
Load the image file downloaded before into the program and use the SD card (either in a card reader plugged into USB or inside an internal reader) as the target and let itdo it's thing
If it worked, your SD card size should be only a few MB now (you can re-format it later to get back it's full capacity)
Make sure your battery has charge left - and note that your phonecan't charge it's own battery in the state it's in. So, get another Samsung (as mentioned, the Galaxy S2 even works), hold the battery to it's contacts and try to boot it (make sure not to mix up + and - !). If you need to charge the battery, use for example packaging tape to keep the battery in place (since it can't stay in place on it's own as it's of another shape).
On 8. I used the key combo to get it into download mode, don't know what an USB Jig is.
On 9., I pulled the SD card as described and flashed the compatible TWRP via Odin using a Windows Computer. It rebooted by itself and therefore into the firmware it had before it died. Recover all your data and buy another phone.
Because you can't get it ever to work properly again, since it's a hardware flaw (at least if you encountered that MMC_READ_FAIL error).Maybe you can get it repaired / replaced by Samsung bit for me that was out of the question since I bought my Note Edge used. Switched to a Note 5 which still works flawlessly. Maybe the Note 8 is already cheap enough for you. Or look elsewhere, another Samsung, or another brand whatsoever. But if you want to switch brands, you need to recover your data with a 3rd party app, not with Samsung's SmartSwitch, since that one will only recover to another Samsung device.
Feel free to ask me if you still need help.
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thank you so much.. i'll try it and keep you updated.
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scragnothh said:
Hi, just follow the guide in https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69194863&postcount=14
Download the image file posted there, the link is still valid.
Any old small micro SD card should work as that debrick image is not huge at all - it just contains the essential files which enables the phone to boot again.
Recover (if necessary) any data that is still on the SD card because all data on the card will be lost.
I used an USB-stick-type SD card reader with an adapter Micro-SD->Full Sized SD
Use any program that can make bootable USB sticks (Win32DiskImager is just one example)
Load the image file downloaded before into the program and use the SD card (either in a card reader plugged into USB or inside an internal reader) as the target and let itdo it's thing
If it worked, your SD card size should be only a few MB now (you can re-format it later to get back it's full capacity)
Make sure your battery has charge left - and note that your phonecan't charge it's own battery in the state it's in. So, get another Samsung (as mentioned, the Galaxy S2 even works), hold the battery to it's contacts and try to boot it (make sure not to mix up + and - !). If you need to charge the battery, use for example packaging tape to keep the battery in place (since it can't stay in place on it's own as it's of another shape).
On 8. I used the key combo to get it into download mode, don't know what an USB Jig is.
On 9., I pulled the SD card as described and flashed the compatible TWRP via Odin using a Windows Computer. It rebooted by itself and therefore into the firmware it had before it died. Recover all your data and buy another phone.
Because you can't get it ever to work properly again, since it's a hardware flaw (at least if you encountered that MMC_READ_FAIL error).Maybe you can get it repaired / replaced by Samsung bit for me that was out of the question since I bought my Note Edge used. Switched to a Note 5 which still works flawlessly. Maybe the Note 8 is already cheap enough for you. Or look elsewhere, another Samsung, or another brand whatsoever. But if you want to switch brands, you need to recover your data with a 3rd party app, not with Samsung's SmartSwitch, since that one will only recover to another Samsung device.
Feel free to ask me if you still need help.
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it actually did not work.. i have tried everything so far.. can you please use win32diskmanager to make an image of that card you used and send it to me .. since i'm starting to lose hope :'(
muhammad_h said:
it actually did not work.. i have tried everything so far.. can you please use win32diskmanager to make an image of that card you used and send it to me .. since i'm starting to lose hope :'(
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This won't help you. Please tell me what's the problem exactly - is it that you cant't get that image onto the SD card?
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This won't help you. Please tell me what's the problem exactly - is it that you cant't get that image onto the SD card?
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i managed to get the image on the sd card but when i put it in the phone and put the battery in nothing happens.
it's just not reacting at all (it's hard bricked and the computer recognizes the phone as qualcomm hs usb loader 9008.
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i managed to get the image on the sd card but when i put it in the phone and put the battery in nothing happens.
it's just not reacting at all (it's hard bricked and the computer recognizes the phone as qualcomm hs usb loader 9008.
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You need to engage Download mode after putting SD and battery in, holding VOL-, Home and Power at the same time. The other symptoms sound like those I had (recognized as Qualcomm on my Computer, nothing else).
Maybe you have another model revision? I had the SM-N915FY, the unbrick image is for SM-N915F but it worked for me. Did your phone die because of the MMC-READ_FAIL or because of something else?
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You need to engage Download mode after putting SD and battery in, holding VOL-, Home and Power at the same time. The other symptoms sound like those I had (recognized as Qualcomm on my Computer, nothing else).
Maybe you have another model revision? I had the SM-N915FY, the unbrick image is for SM-N915F but it worked for me. Did your phone die because of the MMC-READ_FAIL or because of something else?
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i have actually done that but couldn't access download mode by pressing this combination of buttons.
and yes, my device's Model number is SM-N915FY and it also died the same way.. at first it would shut down and i need to wait a bit for it to work again and sometimes it gave the error MMC_READ_FAIL and then i had to jiggle the battery or take it out and leave it for a while in order to be able to boot successfully to Android but one day it just stopped working forever.
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scragnothh said:
You need to engage Download mode after putting SD and battery in, holding VOL-, Home and Power at the same time. The other symptoms sound like those I had (recognized as Qualcomm on my Computer, nothing else).
Maybe you have another model revision? I had the SM-N915FY, the unbrick image is for SM-N915F but it worked for me. Did your phone die because of the MMC-READ_FAIL or because of something else?
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i know i'm asking for too much but would you be kind enough to consider making me a debrick.img with your working device because now i'm desperate and would literally try anything to get it to work.
thank you again.
muhammad_h said:
i have actually done that but couldn't access download mode by pressing this combination of buttons
would you be kind enough to consider making me a debrick.img with your working device
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That's unfortunate, only thing I can think of now is an empty / too low powered battery or a bad SD card, or the flash memory is actually damaged too badly already.
Or, leave it alone for the night with battery, SIM and SD card removed and try again the next day.
I don't think it's the image's fault, and I don't even know how to create that image. I still have that phone around, since it's twice worthless because of a cracked screen and that hardware defect on the PCB.
And, again, don't use it anymore, it's a waste of time. I wasted hours trying to write a clean image with that other guide I linked to. Most the time it would fail right away during Odin's writing process, or if not then, it would hang itself during the various reboots, or show that error message again. Only pursue it if there's important files you need to recover.
Otherwise I read that there might be a chance of running the whole Android from an SD card bypassing the crippled internal flash memory, but didn't find anything specific about the Note 4 / Edge in that regard. And that SD card won't live long either, furthermore there's speed concerns.
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That's unfortunate, only thing I can think of now is an empty / too low powered battery or a bad SD card, or the flash memory is actually damaged too badly already.
Or, leave it alone for the night with battery, SIM and SD card removed and try again the next day.
I don't think it's the image's fault, and I don't even know how to create that image. I still have that phone around, since it's twice worthless because of a cracked screen and that hardware defect on the PCB.
And, again, don't use it anymore, it's a waste of time. I wasted hours trying to write a clean image with that other guide I linked to. Most the time it would fail right away during Odin's writing process, or if not then, it would hang itself during the various reboots, or show that error message again. Only pursue it if there's important files you need to recover.
Otherwise I read that there might be a chance of running the whole Android from an SD card bypassing the crippled internal flash memory, but didn't find anything specific about the Note 4 / Edge in that regard. And that SD card won't live long either, furthermore there's speed concerns.
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i have already bridged the battery to another charged battery to eliminate aby doubt about the charge of the battery. and i've tried 2 different SDs and the issue still presists. i guess that leaves the damaged emmc as the only possibility.. i'll see what i can do.. maybe i'll manage to flash it using QFIL.. but later cuz i'm exhausted and haven't slept for 2 days.
muhammad_h said:
i have already bridged the battery to another charged battery to eliminate aby doubt about the charge of the battery. and i've tried 2 different SDs and the issue still presists. i guess that leaves the damaged emmc as the only possibility.. i'll see what i can do.. maybe i'll manage to flash it using QFIL.. but later cuz i'm exhausted and haven't slept for 2 days.
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OK then I don't know any more things to try, seems you ruled out all error possibilities already. As I heard the flash memory chips in Note 4 / Edge and another from the S line were of bad quality, creating that error.
I wouldn't even have known about any further steps if this method didn't work for mine.
Good luck, hope you still get it working. I hope nothing like this happens with the Note 5 since they eliminated the SD card slot on that one... and brought it back with the Note 8. If the new 9 has it I don't know, it's not that interesting to me to read about the newest phone's specs if I don't plan to buy them...