First off, I'll say that I've already flashed my nandroid and my phone is working. I'm really just curious if anyone knows how this happened.
Basically, SW managed to soft brick my phone.
I'm on CM7 #11 w/ Netarchy 1.2.7 CFS, using the matted blue theme. I installed the Al Jazeera news application and was watching live video when the video began stuttering and the phone froze. After about 10 seconds, the phone automatically started rebooting, but was unable to boot. After showing the google logo, the screen went black and the capacitive buttons lit up. The phone was unresponsive and I had to take out the battery to reboot the phone.
I was able to reboot into recovery and I flashed a CM7 backup but was still unable to boot. I got the same issue as before.
Flashing my stock nandroid (2.3.3) recovered my phone.
I'm just curious if anyone knows how software can soft brick a phone.
Ideas?
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Hi
I got an issue after receiving an OTA update for my Nexus S. It was an official update asking my if I would like to install it. I choose yes and the device booted. It began to install and suddenly the triangle with exclamation mark popped up.
Since then, the phone only boots up randomly. Mostly if stays at a logo saying "google" in middle of the screen. No more Nexus bootup color game.
Is there any way to get this phone back to stock without being an expert?
It is a Nexus S 9020
I9020XXKD1
Kernel 2.6.35.7-ge382d80 android [email protected] #1
GRJ22
It was stock rom 2.3.4 and rooted at the time of the update
Any help is appreciated.
Regards
Martin
I am in the same ship Martin. Updated it to the 2.3.6 from 2.3.4 when I got the OTA. It was working fine, then the screen just stopped responding. It gets stuck at the google colour game now, and the screen turns off after some time. However, if I plug in the usb power charger, the screen lights up again, and the colour game proceeds a bit, then the screen turns off again. if i pull out the usb charger then, the screen lights up again. its been crazy since morning.
im sure that if we reset it, we can get it to work. but in my case i have been unable to do that. can someone tell us how to format/reset our nexus S?
Think I got it sorted.
Running 2.3.6. now, rooted. No loss of data for whatever reason.
What I did.
First of all, in one of those moments were the device was up, i copied a stock 9020T rom 2.3.6 on the sdcard.
In recovery mode, SDcard was never available. While reading through endless threads I found a recovery rom image called 5023_green.img
I had nothing to loose, so i flashed it using fastboot. A started in recovery and I got full access to my SDcard. I updated from full stock rom 2.3.6 I loaded to the SDcard earlier. Since then, no more issues. Surprisingly here I would have expected loss of root and wipe of all data. But this did not happen. All data is there in its place.
Cheers
Martin
Hey I had numasx running, I then tried installing MIUI, it did not work it booted up to the Samsung screen, I took out the battery manually booted into the cmw by pressing the volume keys and the power button, however the cmw changed colours from what was once red to now blue, i wiped and reflashed MIUI hoping it would work however it does not the samsung screen was on for 20 minutes, I tried bringing the phone back to At &T stock ( my phone is Rogers by the way) however this brick my phone where it constantly goes into a white screen and restarts when usb is connected.. any help, there is no way I can get into download mode.... When the phone is connected to the computer and Odin is on my screen it shows that my phone is constantly connecting and disconnecting ... What should I do? Should I send it into warrenty? and what is the difference between voodo lag fix and the regular blue cwm?... seriously htc phones do not seem to have this issue when flashing roms...
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Hey I had numasx running, I then tried installing MIUI, it did not work it booted up to the Samsung screen, I took out the battery manually booted into the cmw by pressing the volume keys and the power button, however the cmw changed colours from what was once red to now blue, i wiped and reflashed MIUI hoping it would work however it does not the samsung screen was on for 20 minutes, I tried bringing the phone back to At &T stock ( my phone is Rogers by the way) however this brick my phone where it constantly goes into a white screen and restarts when usb is connected.. any help, there is no way I can get into download mode.... When the phone is connected to the computer and Odin is on my screen it shows that my phone is constantly connecting and disconnecting ... What should I do? Should I send it into warrenty? and what is the difference between voodo lag fix and the regular blue cwm?... seriously htc phones do not seem to have this issue when flashing roms...
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hmm...someone else had this problem a few days ago.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437548&page=4
start at post #35
It's not a hardware issue though its a complete brick I just want to make sure other infuse owners don't get the same mistake and what steps can be taken to prevent it I am a noob when it comes to flashing especially this being my first samsung android but its the red cwm to the blue
it's not a brick.
brick is when you get nothing. absolutely nothing.
you've some sort of power looping...not brick.
Hey xda.
Recently I flashed my GS with this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449156&page=), but just in a older version(pre-alpha) and after probably a month of use I began to experienced at lot og bugs and suddenly crashes in apps and programs. I decided to do a reboot,battery pull or wipe cache to see if that clould do it, but nothing help. On the contrary, my phone would not start. The Galaxy S logo showed u, but when the miui xiaomi.com logo showed it bootlooped. Several reboots did not work, so i decided to mount usb from recovery and download the newest version of the rom and then try to flash. I did not wipe, but i worked just fine and i thought i had my phone back, but after little over a day of use the screen began to flicker and blink, and no programs nor apps worked, just crashed. I flashed again again but nothing worked, and now i'm stuck with the same problem as before. bootloop..
So have anyone experienced the same or does anyone have a solution for this problem?
Hi, I recently got a certified like new replacement VZW GS3 which freezes 10-15mins after the screen goes black while at the lock screen. To fix it at that point I have to pull the battery and turn the device on again. Buttons pressed while in this state do nothing, not even cause the menu keys to light up
Here is the sequence of events since taking it out of the box
Recieved it as 4.1.2 stock jellybean
Rooted, CWM Recovery, Unlocked bootloader - followed this guide - 29256-tutorial-rootrecoverybootloader-unlockicsjb-verizon-galaxy-s-iii on rootwiki (can't post links)
Clean flashed Cleanrom 6 RC2, noticed the lockscreen freeze issue
Flashed lean kernel to see if it was a kernel issue
Clean flashed Liquidsmooth 2.4 to see if it persisted on other roms, it did
Odined back to full stock - issue persisted
Accepted new update that was released today - issue persisted.
The issue does not appear to happen when plugged into the charger.
I am now preparing the phone to send back to Verizon, but I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Based on google searches it seems that it is a hardware issue because changing roms/kernels/ going back to stock did not fix it.
Hello
Yesterday I installed alien rom 5.0 onto my xperia J which was running cm10. It installed and worked very well until I realised I forgot to flash the root fix so I needed to reboot to recovery which I was unable to do because it wouldn't work. I decided to go ahead and install a cwm I found on a website and I could now boot into cwm however it kept flashing a charging symbol the the screen was pink whilst showing double and switching off. After a while it started working again but then crashed as soon as I hit the power button to restore my backup. Now my phone shows a black screen and when switched on flashes the led green twice and shows the sony logo then powers back off. I need help, I'm un experienced in this field of phones...