So after playing around with ROM manager and getting the new CW recovery to work, I think I legitimately bricked my poor Xoom wifi.
Here's where we are now.
Power button doesn't work. Hard reset doesn't work. Getting to RSD/Fastboot doesn't work. USB connection isn't recognized (windows/linux). No lights work. A/C charger doesn't appear to work. Nothing happens at any direction.
So far, there is zero indication that the device is even powering at all. Yes, it's charged. Just a giant, solid black screen that is mocking me. :[
The last thing I did was partition the SD card. (trying to install new Tia kernel). Rebooted, worked fine. Powered down. Now it won't respond to anything.
Think I'm going to go sacrifice a virgin and see if that helps.
Thoughts? Or should I just go back to Best Buy and beg?
Sorry if this is all over the place. Having one of those "holy $ I have a $600 paperweight!" moments. Heh.
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THE CHARGING LIGHT WORKS!.. when connected to A/C now. Nothing else does.. but that one light works.. progress is progress..
Hope you're still within your return period. My understanding is the Xooms internal storage is labeled as sdcard and the actual sdcard is sdcard2. So by "formatting the sdcard" you essentially formatted the Xooms 32GB internal memory.
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I partitioned a 4M chunk of it to put the recovery image on it. So.. would that explain it being completely nonresponsive? The only thing I got out of it today is that the charging light was white and then green when it was fully charged. Otherwise nothing works I am within my return period but I'm traveling...until my return period is up. Boy, this is just a bad situation, is it not? Haha
That would explain it being non-responsive.
Anything that can be done? Or do I have to start playing phone and shipping tag with Motorola at this point?
And if I do send it to motorola and they get the OS back on there.. how would they do it?
First off: did you partition the internal storage or are you running Tiamat with sdcard support?
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In the recover module, I went to partition SD card, then partitioned it to 4MB. (The image is 3 and change). Whether or not it was internal or external, I couldn't tell you. I don't have an external SD card. So yes, I made a rookie mistake on that one.
I'm glad I wrote this down: Another thing, when I had it hooked up via USB and mounted the USB storage in recovery, a prompt came up in windows saying "you need to format this drive in order to use it." so.. I copied the /sdcard/ contents (cause that's what I thought it was talking about) to my PC and formatted it. I could only format it to 3MB. That's what led me to trying to partition the SD card so I could put the recovery image on whatever drive was there.
Yeah.. the more I think about this the more of a rookie mistake it was. I'm sure I formatted something that had critical operating system files on it and that's why I can't even get the thing to boot. A:LKFJ;-
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Has this happened to anyone else? I have few pictures on my sdcard that used to show up in thumbnail views where i can select them, now some of them are greyed out with an esclamation mark. Does this mean its time for a new sdcard? By the way does a faster sdcar mean faster phone performance? Because i have a 2gb kingston, im thinking of going up to 4gb class 4 PNY brand. Suggestions devs?
i had this happen, IIRC, i had to hard reset........
but before u do that..........
try putting the pics and anything else you want to save on the computer so u dont loose them. then reformat your card. soft reset your phone, then transfer everything back.
that should work, but if it doesnt , hard reset would probably be the next step
Ok thanks man, ill try that. I have noticed that some of the photos when i pull them off the sdcard, they are corrupt also. Do you think a better sd card would help?
I had this happen to me as well. It would be fine for awhile, then do that and when I went into ca,era app it would say no sd card inserted. I'd restart and it would be fine and pics would show for about 10min then it would do it again. I plugged my phone into the computer and and mounted it. Then a screen popped up and said some of the files on the disk were corrupt and if I would like to try to repair so I said yes. It fixed it and it really hasn't happened since (maybe once, but restarted and been fine since). I'm running an 8gb card with root.
Let me first say I'm writing this on my Captivate now, so it's not completely fried like you may think.
Earlier today I plugged in a flash drive to have it not work on my pc. I plugged it in a different pc and nothing so I assumed it just died after 4 years. I then plugged in my captivate so I could mount it real quick and get my homework on there to get to class. Now this time I got the errot message "usb not recognized." I installed drivers, restarted, and even reinstalled windows , and still the same problem.
I then tried on my bothers pc and it still said not recognized. At this point, I had my brother buy me a flash drive on his way home from work today. Took it out, plugged it in his pc, worked fine. Plugged it in mine, worked for 10 seconds, took it out and theus b connector was really warm. Reconnected to his pc to get the"not recognized" error again.
I took apart my old flash drive and it smells and had a burnt spot on a chip, my guess the usb controller.
Now anything plugged into my usb ports get fried and stop being recognized.
My phone still works but anytime I mount it via usb it can't recognize. No doubt the pc fried the usb controller chip in the phone.
would I be able too take this back to att? if they open it up they will most likely see a burnt chip on the board some where, equaling hardware failure, which they can't say that I caused. I also rooted my phone and deleted the att crapware. Any way to completely eeyore my phone to factory? Keep in mind I cant mount this phone any more so I'd have to download any files straight to the phone.
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I should also add that I had an external microsd card in my phone. After the while incident that I think fried my phone. The microsd no longer appears in my phone to mount, un mount, or see available space. But if I take the micro sd out and put it in a usb card reader it still works fine. It only can't be read if its in the phone, this leading me to believe something fried internally with regards to the usb controllers and what not
ShaneS429 said:
I should also add that I had an external microsd card in my phone. After the while incident that I think fried my phone. The microsd no longer appears in my phone to mount, un mount, or see available space. But if I take the micro sd out and put it in a usb card reader it still works fine. It only can't be read if its in the phone, this leading me to believe something fried internally with regards to the usb controllers and what not
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You could probably get away with a warranty replacement if you don't mind being dishonest.
#1) I doubt they would open it up and see the problem
#2) how can they prove that a hardware malfunction with the phone didn't cause it?
Im going in on friday to see what they can do. It wasn't like I was hacking it or modifying the hardware, just plugging it in got it fried. Even tho it was my pc that caused it, I guess they can't ever prove it was my pc or that the hardware didnt short out on its own.
So will odin restore me to stock and give my att apps back? Can I do it without access to a pc since I can never mount my phone any more?
you could probably post a bounty thread for a jf6 stiock rom in an update.zip.
then use myfiles to delete the updates & clockwork
JH7 I think is available as an update.zip in the development forum.
I have a rooted Evo 3d (i rooted the phone before i even bought the card) and i have had to card for about 2 months and while i was on my phone a caution triangle come up in the top bar and said error(at the time i was on a ebay app) and i tried to click on it but it disappeared then i went to titanium backup to back up modified files and it said no sd card mounted. I then rebooted my phone with o luck, then i shut down took to card out then put it back in. NO luck again, then i put it in the adapter nothing, and hooked my phone up to the computer via usb. I really hope it didnt break but thats what im thinking. if anyone could help me i would really appreciate it.
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I have a rooted Evo 3d (i rooted the phone before i even bought the card) and i have had to card for about 2 months and while i was on my phone a caution triangle come up in the top bar and said error(at the time i was on a ebay app) and i tried to click on it but it disappeared then i went to titanium backup to back up modified files and it said no sd card mounted. I then rebooted my phone with o luck, then i shut down took to card out then put it back in. NO luck again, then i put it in the adapter nothing, and hooked my phone up to the computer via usb. I really hope it didnt break but thats what im thinking. if anyone could help me i would really appreciate it.
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It's probably dead same thing happened to my card in my asus transformer
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My Motorola Droid Razr Maxx started randomly shutting down and would only turn on with the charger. I know I should've backed everything up when this started happening, but I'm dumb and didn't. Well since the last time it shut down, nothing has been able to turn it on. I can plug it into my computer and get the white "insufficient charging" light, but when I plug it into a wall charger, I get nothing. I've tried the POWER and VOL keys trick so many times. I'm hopeless when it comes to the phone, but I would like to get the data off of the internal memory. Could someone help me find a schematic or pin layout of the internal memory card or maybe step by step how to connect it to a usb or SD card via some kind of hardware hack? I'm not sure if I have the Toshiba or the SanDisk chip, I don't have my screwdrivers with me at the moment to check. Any help would be very appreciated! Thank you.
So,
can you take the battery out of you RAZR? If so, you should get in Recovery or CWM and try to get everything via ADB.
Hello all!
I have a 4GB Micro SD card, that came with my mother's old phone and worked fine. I found it and put it in my phone, but after a few days it appears to android as "DAMAGED" all of a sudden. My phone is HTC Desire Z. It happened after I formatted it to delete a load of pictures my brother had taken after he went on my phone (hes young lol!) When I use something like USB Mass Storage, it will happen then, after reboots it happens, all different times. I have checked it in Windows, I have done slow formats on it, (I have yet to try formatting it under my linux system, hoping this will do the trick) I have done everything. Please help me as I dont want to have to buy a new one just yet!
Thanks, Will.