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Bricked?

I finished flashing my phone it started up fine but said that it had -1% battery life left (I had 80%). I just let it go and did some stuff on it. In about 1 minute it froze so I held the button to turn it off. I went to turn it on and NOTHING. I pluged it in no lights or anything tried two different chargers.
I have a 8125
PLEASE HELP!
Thanks
Drew

Update....
I turn it on by taking out the battery while pluged it and it turn on by itself.
I put the battery in and it loaded up but still NO lights like the one that flashes nothing its pluged in and nothing. I cant active sync it either. Still says -1%
Dont know what to do.
Please help
Thanks
Drew

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ovrboostVR4 said:
Update....
I turn it on by taking out the battery while pluged it and it turn on by itself.
I put the battery in and it loaded up but still NO lights like the one that flashes nothing its pluged in and nothing. I cant active sync it either. Still says -1%
Dont know what to do.
Please help
Thanks
Drew
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What rom were you trying to flash
Download a official Rom of your carrier, Make sure to CID Unlock the phone,

Cingular
G3
reTOUCHed-FINAL
Yes it is unlocked I had this rom on there before and flashed a new one on there and didnt like it so flashed back.
reTOUCHed-FINAL(rom)
I can't get it to sync to my computer via USB

ovrboostVR4 said:
Cingular
G3
reTOUCHed-FINAL
Yes it is unlocked I had this rom on there before and flashed a new one on there and didnt like it so flashed back.
reTOUCHed-FINAL(rom)
I can't get it to sync to my computer via USB
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check your private messages in the upper right corner, yellow box

ovrboostVR4 said:
Cingular
G3
reTOUCHed-FINAL
Yes it is unlocked I had this rom on there before and flashed a new one on there and didnt like it so flashed back.
reTOUCHed-FINAL(rom)
I can't get it to sync to my computer via USB
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Do you have a official cingular rom on your computer? if not download one
http://download.america.htc.com/RUU_Wizard_225111_22511102_022511_CWS_WWE_Ship_1.exe

[Q] Did I fully brick my phone?

I was updating to froyo using the Odin installer and for some reason it stalled. I waited 10 minutes and nothing happened, it was stuck on DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!! aaand being the genius that I am reset the Odin installer and phone...now I get nothing. The phone is completely unresponsive, no ! screen or anything.
Am I screwed?
edit: sorry for posting this in the wrong forum, please move to Q&A if a mod gets a chance.

close EVERYTHING, take everything out of your phone (sim, battery, and sd card.) then put the battery in but DONT TURN IT ON. have your usb cable ready. hold the two volume buttons down, and then plug in your usb cable to the phone (it should be plugged into your comp) WITHOUT PRESSING ANY POWER BUTTONS. if you get back into downloader mode, you are fine and can then restore using odin or the i click restore

hmmm, well try this take out the battery sim card and ex sd if u got one, open odin, put the battery back in and plug the usb in while holdin the volume buttons, aka download mode... sometimes it doesnt work the first time just try it a couple more...

I did this with my phone. If nothing comes on screen when you plug in the USB cable and entering recovery and download mode don't work, then take thye phone back to AT&T, they accepted my bricked phone back. Just act dumb like you have no clue why it's broken.

I have a similar issue, however I can still get into the downloader..but it just hangs when restoring on factoryfs.rfs....
Any suggestions on that?

hazard96 said:
close EVERYTHING, take everything out of your phone (sim, battery, and sd card.) then put the battery in but DONT TURN IT ON. have your usb cable ready. hold the two volume buttons down, and then plug in your usb cable to the phone (it should be plugged into your comp) WITHOUT PRESSING ANY POWER BUTTONS. if you get back into downloader mode, you are fine and can then restore using odin or the i click restore
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I cannot explain how much you have just helped me at this moment. I did NOT expect this to work at all, and it did.
thank you, thank you THANK YOU truly

haha well seeing as you're new...
Welcome to the warm hearts at xda-developers

Have I mentioned how good it feels to see resolvable brick threads after the JH7 OTA disaster?

texasryno said:
I have a similar issue, however I can still get into the downloader..but it just hangs when restoring on factoryfs.rfs....
Any suggestions on that?
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This happened to me as well, is there anything I can do?

jonttu said:
This happened to me as well, is there anything I can do?
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Try a computer reboot / different USB port... sometimes USB gets interrupted when its flashing in big files like the factory.rfs

Zilch25 said:
Try a computer reboot / different USB port... sometimes USB gets interrupted when its flashing in big files like the factory.rfs
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Thank you, had to switch the usb to one that was directly on the board, again much gratitude

It seems my phone is fully bricked, I tryed the download method with taking out everything. Nothing turns on, its completley blackscreened. I did have it working, but now its completley unresponsive.

mrbloog said:
It seems my phone is fully bricked, I tryed the download method with taking out everything. Nothing turns on, its completley blackscreened. I did have it working, but now its completley unresponsive.
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Are you doing the method where you remove the battery first, hold the volume buttons (without power) and plug into USB? That *SHOULD* get you into download mode- if not, maybe check a different USB port.

Up and running, with Froyo to boot! Thanks again and good luck to those with problems. Thanks for the welcome again and I've made a donation in the site for saving my ass $500

HELP please HELP !!
I upgrade to Froyo and then wanted to go back to 2.1. The problem now I can only boot into download mode, but I tried to load other roms (one click, odin i9000 and Froy) and nothing happens! need help please!

dude, i love you for this.

monkas said:
I upgrade to Froyo and then wanted to go back to 2.1. The problem now I can only boot into download mode, but I tried to load other roms (one click, odin i9000 and Froy) and nothing happens! need help please!
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Can you clarify? Did you successfully upgrade to froyo or incur and error somewhere in the process. When you say that "nothing happens" what exactly does that mean?
What does ODIN show when you try to upload?

vsboxerboy1 said:
Can you clarify? Did you successfully upgrade to froyo or incur and error somewhere in the process. When you say that "nothing happens" what exactly does that mean?
What does ODIN show when you try to upload?
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Upgrade to Froyo successfully. Want to go back to 2.1 after using One Click Odin JF6 rom, it never ends. Following on from here, probe with OCD Froyo, eclair, odin and any rom could do to finish flashing. He stays in zImage and shows the status bar.
Any idea I can try?

monkas said:
Upgrade to Froyo successfully. Want to go back to 2.1 after using One Click Odin JF6 rom, it never ends. Following on from here, probe with OCD Froyo, eclair, odin and any rom could do to finish flashing. He stays in zImage and shows the status bar.
Any idea I can try?
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This may seem elementary but I noticed your tag says your location says Buenos Aires. Are you sure you have a Captivate and not an i9000?

JOe K. said:
This may seem elementary but I noticed your tag says your location says Buenos Aires. Are you sure you have a Captivate and not an i9000?
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Guys, good news! I recovered the phone and install Froyo. My error was that it came to how to download and then disconnect the USB and reconnected.
Joe K Captivate works perfect in Argentina because it uses the same bands as AT & T, send me a friend who lives in NYC, obviously unlocked.
Thank you all for your concern, I return to live!

[q] someone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think i bricked my sensation cus i turned it off and it dont turn back on it wasnt dead when i was flashing a rom??
It dont want to do anything not even go into recovery at all what do i do?

LOL WHOA...
stop freaking out lol do your self a favor
what had you done before you turned it off? (flash a rom? flash a mod? flash anything? drop it in water lol?)
give some info lets see if we can help. you probably just need to boot into recovery and reboot

bord1er said:
I think i bricked my sensation cus i turned it off and it dont turn back on it wasnt dead when i was flashing a rom??
It dont want to do anything not even go into recovery at all what do i do?
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Battery Dead ? Plug It In
Did you Pull That Battery ? Wait A Few Minutes And Then Try to turn it on ?

rddocke said:
LOL WHOA...
stop freaking out lol do your self a favor
what had you done before you turned it off? (flash a rom? flash a mod? flash anything? drop it in water lol?)
give some info lets see if we can help. you probably just need to boot into recovery and reboot
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check it out i flashed a rom right and it didnt want to boot into recovery so i took the battery out and it never turned on again????

Plug it in let it charge a bit. If the orange light blinks four times and turns off, then you need to do a battery swap.
If it charges then let it charge boot unto recovery and restore your backup. I hope you made a backup.
Which Rom were you flashing?

rddocke said:
Plug it in let it charge a bit. If the orange light blinks four times and turns off, then you need to do a battery swap.
If it charges then let it charge boot unto recovery and restore your backup. I hope you made a backup.
Which Rom were you flashing?
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nothing comes on

Mate, you're really not helping yourself here. Can you please give a step-by-step of what you were trying to do and a bit more information as to what happened when it didn't go to plan?
e.g. I was trying to flash a new ROM. The ROM update completed successfully but upon rebooting it wouldn't turn on.
The above example gives a bit more insight as to the situation

EddyOS said:
Mate, you're really not helping yourself here. Can you please give a step-by-step of what you were trying to do and a bit more information as to what happened when it didn't go to plan?
e.g. I was trying to flash a new ROM. The ROM update completed successfully but upon rebooting it wouldn't turn on.
The above example gives a bit more insight as to the situation
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this is what i happend i flash a 3.5 sense rom on my sensation it didnt get any signal so i tryed to go into recovery threw rom manager and it didnt want to so i took the battery out and put it back in and it never turned on from their nothing turns on not the charging light or anything
and no it wasnt dead when i tryed so its not the battery

bord1er said:
this is what i happend i flash a 3.5 sense rom on my sensation it didnt get any signal so i tryed to go into recovery threw rom manager and it didnt want to so i took the battery out and put it back in and it never turned on from their nothing turns on not the charging light or anything
and no it wasnt dead when i tryed so its not the battery
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Pop the battery out for about 10 minutes then put it back in and try charging the battery. Also try charging from a different power source like an AC adapter or via your computers USB port. If the battery light doesn't come on then your battery is most likely dead and you may need to find a replacement.

bord1er said:
this is what i happend i flash a 3.5 sense rom on my sensation it didnt get any signal so i tryed to go into recovery threw rom manager and it didnt want to so i took the battery out and put it back in and it never turned on from their nothing turns on not the charging light or anything
and no it wasnt dead when i tryed so its not the battery
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you said you didnt get any signal. dude you prolly didnt flashed the correct radios. some roms tells you witch radio you need before flashing the rom. not all the roms have the correct radios due of a lot of sensation worldwide. had you tried to go into fastboot at all by holding power and vol down at the same time.

Aegishua said:
Pop the battery out for about 10 minutes then put it back in and try charging the battery. Also try charging from a different power source like an AC adapter or via your computers USB port. If the battery light doesn't come on then your battery is most likely dead and you may need to find a replacement.
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Yes battery swap as I mentioned.
On a side note
Can anyone tell me why that is the only solution to the problem when the phone dies down like this
Thisy wife let's her phone die alllll the time and I constantly have to swap mine and her battery.

Bricked Sensation 4g (tmobile)

Hi guys, I was letting my phone charge, and when I checked it a few hours later, it wouldn't turn on, the orange light is NOT blinking/on, and I haven't rooted the phone or installed any custom firmwares. I got the phone "New" on ebay, and I've been using it for like 2 months now. I searched around the web for a solution, and some people recommended removing the battery, putting the battery in and holding VOL DOWN and POWER at the same time, and for some reason, I got it into the white screen with colored words on it. I did a Factory reset, and it got me back to the HTC home screen but it went back to a bootloop and now wont turn on anymore (strange)
Anyways, now i can't even go back into the recovery mode. I haven't rooted/modded this phone since I got it, so it's kind of weird to see this happen. I'm assuming the previous owner might have messed around with it and screwed it up? What should I do at this point?

is it the phone still can turn on and go to bootloader..?
if so..maybe you can try flashing and replace it with a new RUU stock..
firstly you must know what cid and software version of your phone..to do that..you can follow this guide
if your phone still don't want turn on...you can try replace it with different battery..
hope this help..

JJeamy said:
is it the phone still can turn on and go to bootloader..?
if so..maybe you can try flashing and replace it with a new RUU stock..
firstly you must know what cid and software version of your phone..to do that..you can follow this guide
if your phone still don't want turn on...you can try replace it with different battery..
hope this help..
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Not anymore, it can't go into bootloader anymore. It could yesterday but no matter how many times I try it, it won't go into bootloader anymore :\

hyudryu said:
Not anymore, it can't go into bootloader anymore. It could yesterday but no matter how many times I try it, it won't go into bootloader anymore :\
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try this, eject you battery sim and sd card and charge your phone without them for few hours or overnight , after that reinsert them and try to power on the phone

Mile_zdr said:
try this, eject you battery sim and sd card and charge your phone without them for few hours or overnight , after that reinsert them and try to power on the phone
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Still nothing The orange LED doesn't come on/flash anything. The phone can't turn on and it's just dead now.

hyudryu said:
Still nothing The orange LED doesn't come on/flash anything. The phone can't turn on and it's just dead now.
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did you already try using different battery..?

hyudryu said:
Still nothing The orange LED doesn't come on/flash anything. The phone can't turn on and it's just dead now.
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check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351

Weird sudden death

Hi all.
I have searched this forum (I know it's very frowned upon to start a thread without doing so) but the symptoms don't completely match my issue so I've resorted to asking.
I have a Nexus 5, which I was using as a hotspot, tethering to an Amazon fire stick, when it switched itself off.
It hasn't booted since, I've tried all possible button combinations for up to 2 minutes and still nothing.
If connected to a charger I get the white battery icon with the lightning bolt for a few seconds then blank screen, this will loop until unplugged.
When I have the battery icon on screen I can hold power button and it will display "Google" and vibrate as if starting to boot, then go blank again.
Have reinstalled original battery and the symptoms remain the same.
Am on marshmallow 6.0.1 totally stock am also out of warranty.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Try to boot in bootloader mode if it boots connect to it comp and then unlock the bootloader if not and install latest Twrp if not then flash a custom rom and boot it then flash factory images .. Done. Back to Stock!
Try booting in bootloader mod while connecting it do the charger. (Wall charger )

pranavmali said:
Try to boot in bootloader mode if it boots connect to it comp and then unlock the bootloader if not and install latest Twrp if not then flash a custom rom and boot it then flash factory images .. Done. Back to Stock!
Try booting in bootloader mod while connecting it do the charger. (Wall charger )
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Thanks for the suggestion but can't get into bootloader mode, it's only alive for about 3-4 seconds if plugged in then it goes off and then back to the white battery.

J_The_Nerd said:
Thanks for the suggestion but can't get into bootloader mode, it's only alive for about 3-4 seconds if plugged in then it goes off and then back to the white battery.
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Mother board problem or change try changing ur battery... Surely Mother Board problem! Coz while u were connected to a hotspot and then u switched off it.. The battery would suddenly undervolt ur motherboard... And Undervolting id Very Very bad even if u change it from software or hardware...This had happen to my Sis nexus 5. .. So given it a chance changing the battery! Coz that helped Me.. But also try booting in bootloader mod and flashing twrp it will save couple of Bucks and Time
Press the thanks button if this helps

I would replace the battery first. It seems like the battery was completely drained while hotspotting.
Are you using the original USB cable and charger that came with the phone?

audit13 said:
I would replace the battery first. It seems like the battery was completely drained while hotspotting.
Are you using the original USB cable and charger that came with the phone?
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Yes using the original charger, still does the same on power bank and old Samsung charger.
I'll give a battery swap another go.

pranavmali said:
Mother board problem or change try changing ur battery... Surely Mother Board problem! Coz while u were connected to a hotspot and then u switched off it.. The battery would suddenly undervolt ur motherboard... And Undervolting id Very Very bad even if u change it from software or hardware...This had happen to my Sis nexus 5. .. So given it a chance changing the battery! Coz that helped Me.. But also try booting in bootloader mod and flashing twrp it will save couple of Bucks and Time
Press the thanks button if this helps
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If battery swap doesn't help is the motherboard easy to swap out? Providing I can find a replacement?

Motherboard is very easy to swap out.

Update, put original battery back in for the second time, first time didn't make a difference, possibly took longer this time. But all is good now.
Thanks to all