I need help/advice. I recently tried to update my Samsung Infuse to gingerbread and bricked it. AT&T reinstalled the original software and said I should try again. It bricked again. AT&T then gave me a new Infuse, but with the old software. I tried again to update and it bricked also. Then AT&T gave me a new Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
I'd love to root this phone like I did with the infuse, but I'm really reluctant to try anything after the above experience! If I try to root, how much risk of bricking am I taking? Are there ways to recover if I brick it short of going back to AT&T? What's the best method to use to root?
Thanx in advance for the advice/help!!
jrjmpls said:
I need help/advice. I recently tried to update my Samsung Infuse to gingerbread and bricked it. AT&T reinstalled the original software and said I should try again. It bricked again. AT&T then gave me a new Infuse, but with the old software. I tried again to update and it bricked also. Then AT&T gave me a new Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket.
I'd love to root this phone like I did with the infuse, but I'm really reluctant to try anything after the above experience! If I try to root, how much risk of bricking am I taking? Are there ways to recover if I brick it short of going back to AT&T? What's the best method to use to root?
Thanx in advance for the advice/help!!
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If it's a hard brick the only option other than att is mobiletechvideos jtag service. Read the stickies and search the forum before posting new threads. This should get you started.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
If it were me, I would flash the ucld2 Odin one click.exe first. It is very stable and smooth. Then root that baby. There's always gonna be a risk of bricking. I've even has stock phones that seemed to brick outta no where. If you stay in the skyrocket section and only flash zips for our device, the risk of bricking is minimal, but there's always that possibility. Good luck too ya
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Have You Ever Bricked Your Device While Flashing ROM or Doing Anything ?
If Yes Then Please Let Us Know !!
I have bricked my Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S2 and Micromax A100
I have bricked iberry AUXUS AX02 more than 100times !
But thanks to CWM & Stock ROMs !
I hard bricked my SAMSUNG galaxy s2 T989 flashing a rom. Called t-Mobile told them it died when I tried to update with Kies and they sent me a new one. Soft bricked it multiple times if I had to guess I'd say about five times also testing themes i made for twrp I got suck a recovery boot loop (just showed the twrp curtain over and over). Luckaly for me I was able to put it in download mode and flash twrp again with Odin. Did that three times.
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i have bricked my sgy dous 1000 timesss
And unbricked with help of odin
Bricking and unbricking is my daily job lolzzzz
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Not once or twice four times , i have bricked the mobile...!
Its non other than katbonn A1...
Bricked my Galaxy Y while i tried to flash a sound mod. Flashed it back to stock rom with odin and it worked like a charm again!
Is it really "bricking" if you can fix it? I'm pretty sure bricked = forever. That's why it's called "bricked."
LOL
adubinsky457 said:
Is it really "bricking" if you can fix it? I'm pretty sure bricked = forever. That's why it's called "bricked."
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Bro, who told you bricked = forever dead ?
and if you bricked your device and until you fix it your device is called dead[bricked] !! :silly:
lol soft bricking and hard bricking arfe different..soft brick many times happened with me but no hard bricks
djbillabong said:
Bro, who told you bricked = forever dead ?
and if you bricked your device and until you fix it your device is called dead[bricked] !! :silly:
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Samsung Galaxy S [i9000, AOKP, Rooted]
Samsung Galaxy S2 [i9100, Stock, Rooted]
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#1 definition in Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bricked said:
To render your computer useless, as useless as a brick.
Usually the result of tampering with the insides and doing irreversible damage. Bricking your hardware leaves you with a new paperweight. Can be the end effect of a faulty flash or firmware update, a modification (mod) gone bad or being struck by lighting, to name a few.
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djbillabong said:
Bro, who told you bricked = forever dead ?
and if you bricked your device and until you fix it your device is called dead[bricked] !! :silly:
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Samsung Galaxy S [i9000, AOKP, Rooted]
Samsung Galaxy S2 [i9100, Stock, Rooted]
Please Hit Thanks If I Helped You !!
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Bricked does mean forever dead. There is no such thing as a soft brick...that is a boot loop.
i too bricked my allwinner A10 tablet so many times as this tablet is for testing purpose only
of course, YES
I have owned a Motorola Droid 1, 2, and 3 and I have yet to brick any of them.
/me crosses fingers
I bricked my phone for a few month ago -.-
There was a Bump on the Case and my Provider told me i have lost the guarantee,
so i bought a new Phone -.- This sucks
I can say yes.
But it's not an android device. Motorola e398 and rokr e1, i bricked them many times, almost dead, even i need to force them into flash mode, dead again, re flash again, again and again, until i sold them both, few years ago
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Yes... Not a good experience !
Softbricked:
Desire z
Galaxy Mini
Motorola Defy
Desire s
Optimus 4x
Hard (real) bricked
Nothing, yet
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many times
The word bricking is common word to me,so think how many time i had bricked the devices..:thumbup:
Never, and now that I said that I'm sure my next attempt will brick ...
I have a question which seem familiar over the internet but I am confused because of too man answers for :
I have a new brand (not famous brand ) phone , and I was thinking of rooting the device in order to have more ram but my only problem is that the warranty I know that it may be void after root but :
if i unroot the device will it still void or not ? and i hear that engineers in the companies they can know if the phone was rooted is it right ?
(Note : it is only unrooting without custom rom or flashing and my phone warranty is from the device comapany it self)
android2020 said:
I have a question which seem familiar over the internet but I am confused because of too man answers for :
I have a new brand (not famous brand ) phone , and I was thinking of rooting the device in order to have more ram but my only problem is that the warranty I know that it may be void after root but :
if i unroot the device will it still void or not ? and i hear that engineers in the companies they can know if the phone was rooted is it right ?
(Note : it is only unrooting without custom rom or flashing and my phone warranty is from the device comapany it self)
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your warranty is void after rooting, but in my personal experience, no one even checks. it could just be customer support in my area, but when i try replacing a brick i dont tell them that i rooted, i just tell them my problem and they usually replace it.
p.s. i only did this once, my friends are the other experience!
p.p.s. and i dont think rooting can give you more ram, but i may be wrong.
You can set the CPU up higher and overclock it which will speed up the phone
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Don't forget to check out my custom keyboards and dialers over at the candyshop thread and all the other cool stuff from all the wonderful devs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49380310
android2020 said:
I have a question which seem familiar over the internet but I am confused because of too man answers for :
I have a new brand (not famous brand ) phone , and I was thinking of rooting the device in order to have more ram but my only problem is that the warranty I know that it may be void after root but :
if i unroot the device will it still void or not ? and i hear that engineers in the companies they can know if the phone was rooted is it right ?
(Note : it is only unrooting without custom rom or flashing and my phone warranty is from the device comapany it self)
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if you are only seeking to get more ram i would advise not to root your phone because the only about of ram you are going to get is around 30mb's which pretty much means you can only run +1 more app which is not worth it. as for Warrenty voids. if you root your device and send it in for repairs, its voided, if you unroot it and send it in it should not be voided, some new phones have have a counter that can tell the OEM if the device is modified or not, this is only for most newer samsung phones. they can only tell if it was rooted that way if its an older device running Gingerbread and you unroot it ( delete your root apps) i dont think they can detect that it was rooted.
(Note : it is only unrooting without custom rom or flashing and my phone warranty is from the device comapany it self)
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Your Warranty is voided as soon as you root your device (only if they find out in the Service repairs) pretty much if you break your phone and needs service repairs delete root apps and unroot.
You can set the CPU up higher and overclock it which will speed up the phone
Sent from my lg optimus e980 mega i527 mega gt-i9205 Nexus 5 Nexus 4
Don't forget to check out my custom keyboards and dialers over at the candyshop thread and all the other cool stuff from all the wonderful devs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=49380310
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@hopsin4444 please Read the OP before you post nonsense, Overclocking has nothing to do with what he wants and the only way for him to overclock is with a Custom kernel. :/
help me pls
I rooted my s6 few days after tat my device faced many problems. So I unroot it by odin by flashing it's official software. Now my know warranty showing 1 how to bring it back to X. Any possibilities????
Replace your motherboard, other than that no.
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Anyone has successfully rooted this phone?
Cause my phone is in a soft brick state, it's not mandatory, I just wanted to test fbsniff on my self but these things never work out for me. Can I get some assistance please?
of course
its nearly been 2 months with this Samsung J1 Ace SM-1100M - im wondering now to just update it to marshmallow - can always fix it
i dont know how many times now -- ive fixed it from the death screen
is there any rom ( android 6 ) for SMJ110M ??