Bricked != Bricked - T-Mobile LG G2x

Before you post something that says, hey, I bricked my phone ask yourself this.
Does my phone power up and get to the initial boot logo?
Can I still get into recovery?
If the answer is yes, you AREN'T bricked.
When you "brick" something, your phone acts like a brick and nothing else. If you are stuck at the LG logo or you are boot looping, you AREN'T bricked.
Let's get this lingo correct, cool?

sticky please!

joser24 said:
sticky please!
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We need a sticky for that?
If it acts like a brick...its a brick. If it does anything non brick like...its not a brick. Even BB people should know this.

I really bricked mine once. Wouldn't even power on. I ended up going into nvflash mode and flashing some slate bootloader, then flashing back CWM recovery. It didn't make any changes until the 6 or so try but eventually recovered.
LG G2x CM7 2.3.4

GideonX said:
Before you post something that says, hey, I bricked my phone ask yourself this.
Does my phone power up and get to the initial boot logo?
Can I still get into recovery?
If the answer is yes, you AREN'T bricked.
When you "brick" something, your phone acts like a brick and nothing else. If you are stuck at the LG logo or you are boot looping, you AREN'T bricked.
Let's get this lingo correct, cool?
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I think the real problem is that there is no word for some of the states we can get our phones into so bricked is easy and concise. Maybe erroneous but try explaining that to a lot of XDA members.

My first g2 bricked itself. I later found out it was the after market battery because my second g2 also bricked but that one was able to power up once I out the OEM battery in. The first one didn't work at all regardless of what battery was in it.
I learned myself if it powers up there is at least a chance that it will work again.
G2x with CM7 and faux .18 kernel. [email protected] 5091 quadrant.

hiko36 said:
I think the real problem is that there is no word for some of the states we can get our phones into so bricked is easy and concise. Maybe erroneous but try explaining that to a lot of XDA members.
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Totally dead, can't power on - bricked
Semi dead but fixable with nvflash or recovery/reflash - soft brick
Restarting itself over and over - bootlooping
Etc....
Pretty easy to distinguish the current state of your device

Brick = paperweight.
A brick just fukken sits there.
If this gets stickied, I say there should be some other common definiations and terms in the sitcky sticky.

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[Q] G2x stuck at LG logo/cannot access recovery

Hey all
Before anyone mentions that i should be searching around more, i would like to say that i've been on multiple threads and they all state the same thing (use NVflash to flash CWM and then boot into CWM but the solution did not work for me past flashing CWM and then trying to access recovery after) and i wasn't able to find one that had a similar problem as mine.
I have CWM flashed through NVflash and was running CM7.1 RC1. I took a screenshot with the 'shootme' app and proceeded to look at the gallery to make sure it came out okay. The gallery crashed and i was sent to the home screen. I swiped to a different homescreen when my phone froze halfway through the transition to the next screen. No combination of buttons/long presses were able to get me out of it so i went ahead and did a battery pull. So my dilemma is that now i'm stuck at the LG boot logo with no blue status bar under it. It freezes there and will not do anything every time i boot up. volume down+power does not give me access to recovery nor does any other button combo get me past the LG boot logo.
Are there any other methods i might be able to use like ADB or what not to get myself out of this situation? or at least into recovery? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as i've been searching for hours with little help and my eyes are starting to get strained.
hmmm.. I know it's a simple question, but I gotta ask.. are you holding the pwr and volume down button long enough? you have to keep holding it even after you see the LG screen.. Keep holding until you see the 2nd screen?
If so.. do the nvflash again? Edit: Not sure if I would do this without getting further guidance tho..
schmit said:
hmmm.. I know it's a simple question, but I gotta ask.. are you holding the pwr and volume down button long enough? you have to keep holding it even after you see the LG screen.. Keep holding until you see the 2nd screen?
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This. I remember when I boot looped my phone I had the problem of letting go of the volume key too early, you need to hold down volume and power from a totally powered off phone until recovery actually starts and you see the green "android" logo of CWM.
Try re-flashing CWM, NVFlash CAN fail. There is literally nothing you can do within the OS that will prevent recovery from working. Either you did something wrong somewhere along the recovery process or you discovered an entirely new problem with the phone. I'm going to hazard a guess and say it's the former.
Thanks for the response guys. I wish that it was the case of not holding the buttons long enough. I have tried numerous times with the buttons held down for a long period of time. I even held the combo down for almost 5 minutes a few times.
Every time i try to boot up, it won't go past the LG boot screen so i would pull the battery out and go through flashing CWM through NVflash again. I'm sure I'm not missing anything because everything goes through and gets sent to the phone successfully.
I did happen to run into a thread that was closely similar to mine but his method was to just keep reflashing CWM and the stock recovery back and forth every time it failed until it turned on. I might have to try that if i cannot figure out this problem out soon. Not being able to use this phone is killing me! heh.
I just joined your club. Wow this sucks.
So apparently this is a whole new problem that's been found? Every other help thread seems to point to using NVflash or remaking the partitions due to a bad flash using an O2x based file instead of G2x.
But none of those solutions come close to doing anything. There has been some people with the same problem as me but aren't proactive at all enough to get someone's attention, so i'm guessing this problem is getting pushed to the side with people just going about getting their phones replaces/buying new ones.
I did happen to run into a thread on paulobrien/modaco's forum that had people using NVflash to get out of any sticky situation like this. It just reverts everything back to the stock factory settings but with root. We cannot use this though because he hasn't built it to be compatible with our LGP999's because everything was built for their UK LGP990's. Maybe that's a start to getting this solution fixed?
I hate to say this, bit you might have to call t mobile and get a replacement. Flash back to stock recovery and they won't know you messed with anything.
Sent from my Nexus 5g using XDA Ultimate App
Don't send back....you'll get same defacement a battery pull go into nvflah and go back stock then flash nv flash fix pArtitions
As I have mentioned before, NVflash does NOT give me access to my recovery let alone solve anything else. NVflash DOES work and does sucessfully send both CWM and the stock recovery but when I try to boot into either of them, let alone just power on normally, it simply DOES NOT go past the LG boot screen. it just hangs there doing nothing at all until I pull the battery out and do the same process over until it just hangs again.
while it is on/stuck at the LG screen, my computer does not recognize it so i cannot even try and run ADB commands. It does however, recognize it when I plug it in using the volume buttons held down when I use NVflash but there's nothing else I can do besides use NVflash obviously.
Jduhb said:
As I have mentioned before, NVflash does NOT give me access to my recovery let alone solve anything else. NVflash DOES work and does sucessfully send both CWM and the stock recovery but when I try to boot into either of them, let alone just power on normally, it simply DOES NOT go past the LG boot screen. it just hangs there doing nothing at all until I pull the battery out and do the same process over until it just hangs again.
while it is on/stuck at the LG screen, my computer does not recognize it so i cannot even try and run ADB commands. It does however, recognize it when I plug it in using the volume buttons held down when I use NVflash but there's nothing else I can do besides use NVflash obviously.
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Did you ever find a solution to this issue? Because my phone is doing this...
I attempted to restore my phone back to the wrong backup that was from a galaxy sII (2.3.4 i think); needless to say, the restore failed. I then restarted my phone from CWM and it gets stuck at LG screen.
I have tried to NVflash back to stock; nothing. same thing reflashing back to CWM.
ideas?
have you tried this link out yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1180331
same problem..... anybody find something to fix this yet?
From what I heard is that you need to remove the battery, then boot into recovery or something.
Sent from my G2X
Use smartflash for the p990 but only use the p999 ap.bin file which will put the rom and kernel back to stock p999.
Rom for recovery always fixes any soft brick back to stock 2.3.3 OTA. It's saved my phone multiple times from stuck on S/W screen to being stuck on lg logo or even the dreaded can't mount sdcard-cache errors in cwm.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
I used the following method when Clockworkmod became corrupted and was unable to mount my sd card. I had just wiped everything on my phone intending to install a new rom when the issue happened. I could not even get to the S/W upgrade screen. It saved my phone. Hope it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
jcbofkc said:
I used the following method when Clockworkmod became corrupted and was unable to mount my sd card. I had just wiped everything on my phone intending to install a new rom when the issue happened. I could not even get to the S/W upgrade screen. It saved my phone. Hope it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
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omg thank you so much! It worked! Not only that but i was stuck on frodo 2.2.2 before which is why i was messing with my phone in the first place and now its on gingerbread. Awesome! thank you!!!!
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omg thank you so much! It worked! Not only that but i was stuck on frodo 2.2.2 before which is why i was messing with my phone in the first place and now its on gingerbread. Awesome! thank you!!!!
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Glad for you that it worked.
Kwes1020 pointed me in the right direction last week. Be sure to give a thanks to ILUHA_89 who came up with the fix.
Amazing how people are soo lost without providing them link after link to other threads. They are soo lazy and can't follow simple directions, each time i get a new phone i go to that section on xda and soak up all the information as it usually is already there. It's just funny is all i guess.
d12unk13astard said:
Amazing how people are soo lost without providing them link after link to other threads. They are soo lazy and can't follow simple directions, each time i get a new phone i go to that section on xda and soak up all the information as it usually is already there. It's just funny is all i guess.
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It's really not that big a deal. I was brand new to android once and asked all sorts of things.
I, like you, happen to read everything I can get my hands on. Some struggle going through all the info. I was here the day the forum opened, so I kind of remember where everything is.
Some are lazy and others just have no idea what the heck is going on and are intimidated by certain processes. I would rather help someone instead of listening to them ***** about their broken phone.

How to unbrick Samsung droid Charge!!

Hey guys found a way to unbrick Samsung droid charge and revert back to stock.
1. Download and install Odin found here ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085190 ) unzip and open
2.Download this file and unzip ( CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5.7z) from here ( http://www.multiupload.com/6WJ2SFUKO6 ) or original thread where i found this file is from here ( http://androidflip.com/android-2-3-...are-on-samsung-droid-charge-installing-guide/ )..
In case it fails and it just keeps failing try this other file is not stock but it is 2.3.4 and it works great here is a link to find the file ( http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5PUB8UY7 ) and it also find a mirror download here ( https://rapidshare.com/#!download|9...ar.md5.7z|391371|RapidPro expired. (34fa3175) ) i tried it guys and it does work.
3. set phone to download mode, do this by taking battery of phone, plug phone into computer and hold Volume down, a Yellow triangle with a working android will appear.
4. Click on odin you will see your phone come up under ID:COM, now do not click on anywhere but on PDA thats where you will have to find the file you downloaded on step 2 and make sure is the unzipped file. once u find it, click on open then start.
5. Be patient this can take up some time, once is done the box will turn green and say pass, at this time your phone will no longer have the Yellow triangle and you can unplug and place the battery back in and turn phone on.. once again be patient when turning phone on it will take a little while to complete.
i tried this and it does work, my Droid charge was bricked and now it works.
Thanks to xda-developers where i was able to find odin and also thanks to androidflip.com where i was able to find the Droid Charge stock rom to flash it back using odin.
Hope this helped everyone needing help.
Thanks for posting this, but it isn't the end-all-be-all. I tried to recover from a bad flash using this method and it failed.
I got the error message seen in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
The method in that post failed to help me recover.
I finally found this method (which is linked much later on in the thread above):
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html
and it worked perfectly for me.
So, if the first method from the OP fails, you have the Samsung PST flash utility that may help.
Yea i was also getting that message at first but it worked fine, but i also ended up installing the 2.3.4 so it worked out well.. was able to fix and unbrick my Droid charge.
I think this is already in a thread here...
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
We've known about this for a while, but thanks. There's a "How to fix your phone" thread in development which also includes a pit file you use in combination with that .md5
Also, you were probably just bootlooped, not bricked.
Thanks Guys for the input. I thought i was bricked, looked to me i was bricked... But i did this steps and was able to fix my droid charge... I did bot know there was a threath about this on here.. just trying to help people fix their phone if this can be helpful for them that's good.
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I bricked my droid charge
Can I just pay somone to have it unbricked wthout paying $100 +? I dont trust myself to unbrick the device.
jonnyb81 said:
Can I just pay somone to have it unbricked wthout paying $100 +? I dont trust myself to unbrick the device.
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look in the dev section for the 'Unbrickable Mod', theres a guy who'll do it for 40 bucks I think
I thought being bricked meant not being able to get into even Download Mode.
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DirgeExtinction said:
I thought being bricked meant not being able to get into even Download Mode.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
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yeah but even then its not completely hopeless, there are USB jigs that can force it into download mode and this 'Unbrickable Mod' thing that requires tinkering with the internals which is supposedly fool proof
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I've seen the term "bricked" thrown about a lot so I'm going to clarify some things.
First of all, there are two types of brick, a soft-brick and a hard-brick.
Soft-brick, that's what people often say when they have a boot-loop. This isn't a brick in the traditional sense. It's not really a brick, you can still recover it if you're at this stage. As long as you can get to the screen with the big yellow triangle you're not bricked at all and you can recover it.
Hard-brick, this is a true brick. This is what happens when the phone will not do anything. Won't show the Samsung logo, won't show the yellow triangle screen, won't do anything at all. At this stage, it might as well be a brick because you can't do anything to it. JTAG should be able to reload the bootloader and the base firmware.
trparky said:
I've seen the term "bricked" thrown about a lot so I'm going to clarify some things.
First of all, there are two types of brick, a soft-brick and a hard-brick.
Soft-brick, that's what people often say when they have a boot-loop. This isn't a brick in the traditional sense. It's not really a brick, you can still recover it if you're at this stage. As long as you can get to the screen with the big yellow triangle you're not bricked at all and you can recover it.
Hard-brick, this is a true brick. This is what happens when the phone will not do anything. Won't show the Samsung logo, won't show the yellow triangle screen, won't do anything at all. At this stage, it might as well be a brick because you can't do anything to it. JTAG should be able to reload the bootloader and the base firmware.
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well that's bootlooping not a soft brick, a soft brick would be when you flash something wrong or stop odin mid flash or flash something corrupted then get that little "phone --- ! --- pc" thing (done it twice myself) but yes it is recoverable
permabrick is indeed when it won't power on or do anything, it is a paperweight
hard brick is usually when it won't go into download mode but may still boot up or even go into recovery (probably just bootloops though), however as I mentioned in my last post none of these situations are completely hopeless
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
anoninja118 said:
yeah but even then its not completely hopeless, there are USB jigs that can force it into download mode and this 'Unbrickable Mod' thing that requires tinkering with the internals which is supposedly fool proof
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
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can anyone help me out to finding diy on how to do this ^ .... cause i cant get my phone to go into download mode nor will it power on
DaRobsterr said:
can anyone help me out to finding diy on how to do this ^ .... cause i cant get my phone to go into download mode nor will it power on
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this is supposed to be a guide I think: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245391
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
DaRobsterr said:
can anyone help me out to finding diy on how to do this ^ .... cause i cant get my phone to go into download mode nor will it power on
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You're supposed to put in the battery for it to turn on....
But seriously, there's a thread for it in the dev section, but just hope you're good at soldering.
Sent from my Droid Charge running Infinity Beta
There always a way to unbrick the charge, it's all thru the development forum. I have had several android phones and have bricked all off them and recovered all them- htc incredible, htc wildfire, droid x and the charge
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kvswim said:
You're supposed to put in the battery for it to turn on....
But seriously, there's a thread for it in the dev section, but just hope you're good at soldering.
Sent from my Droid Charge running Infinity Beta
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I tried everything battery in and out to get into download mode. Ended up finding a post somewhere and read that i should try a usb jig; which is why im guessing if you asked if i was good at soldering. To answer that question yes i am good at it. But i called verizon and they ended up sending me a replacement. Thanks for the guys who tried to help me out.

Can someone tell me what this screen is??

As I was flashing ClockWork Recovery on my phone something went wrong and my phone came up with this screen. Iv tried to get into download and recovery mode but nothing works! and i cant seem to flash from this screen either. My phone shows up in odin but it always fails when I go to flash. Thanks
Just found One click unbrick. It worked!
or you could just use it as an download mode screen.
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ZacharyP said:
As I was flashing ClockWork Recovery on my phone something went wrong and my phone came up with this screen. Iv tried to get into download and recovery mode but nothing works! and i cant seem to flash from this screen either. My phone shows up in odin but it always fails when I go to flash. Thanks
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Soft brick
chuanwt said:
Soft brick
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no its not. this is why i hate xda. any type of actual bricking makes the phone unrecoverable. that is simply a download mode screen that can determine a corrupted kernel or corrupted partition. ive tested enough on that aspect to be able to confirm that. the only true soft brick for the captivate is to screw up the bootloaders. a hard brick is a hardware bricking, such as water dmg.
the normal dl mode screen is the digging android, this dl mode screen is displayed when the bootloader is able to detect a screw up and is saying "hey, fix me"
to simplify this, ask yourself:
"can i plug it into my computer and fix it?"
if your answer is yes then its not bricked in any shape or form.
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no its not. this is why i hate xda. any type of actual bricking makes the phone unrecoverable. that is simply a download mode screen that can determine a corrupted kernel or corrupted partition. ive tested enough on that aspect to be able to confirm that. the only true soft brick for the captivate is to screw up the bootloaders. a hard brick is a hardware bricking, such as water dmg.
the normal dl mode screen is the digging android, this dl mode screen is displayed when the bootloader is able to detect a screw up and is saying "hey, fix me"
to simplify this, ask yourself:
"can i plug it into my computer and fix it?"
if your answer is yes then its not bricked in any shape or form.
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Your information is completely incorrect. That screen in the OP is a soft brick. A hard brick has nothing to do with hardware damage. A Hard brick is when the Bootloaders get wiped or mis matched or corrupted. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY A soft brick is when a kernel gets wiped or the phone system gets corrupted, and cannot boot. And the Captivate is recoverable from a Hard brick if you have Unbrickable MOD or you JTAG done...
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Your information is completely incorrect. That screen in the OP is a soft brick. A hard brick has nothing to do with hardware damage. A Hard brick is when the Bootloaders get wiped or mis matched or corrupted. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY A soft brick is when a kernel gets wiped or the phone system gets corrupted, and cannot boot. And the Captivate is recoverable from a Hard brick if you have Unbrickable MOD or you JTAG done...
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by xda definitions, yes, but in pretty much everything else ive modded, hard brick means hardware bricked while soft bricked means software bricked. thats all my point was.
Arguing xda definitions on xda
Sent from my SGH-I897 using xda premium
lets just agree that an android is not an xbox or an iphone.

Reviving my bricked P500

This is my first post at XDA. I don't know if I am in the right section. Kindly move the post if required.
Problem
1) I had my Optimus One running CM9.
2) It made my phone slow. So, I flashed it back to CM7.
3) It had some problems, so i was foolish enough to move it back to Gingerbread instead of restoring to CM9.
4) This is where my phone started acting strange. It was getting into a boot loop.
5) I then tried to fix it using some tools I don't remember, but since then it has been dead.
The phone is dead. The phone won't turn on. Not even in emergency mode. No response when charger or USB is connected. It just wont turn on.
It was about 4 months ago when I bricked my phone and had lost hope. I have now known it's hard living without an android.
Please let me know how i can fix this and revive my bricked phone.
Some of you may have a good laugh reading this. But I already have tears in my eyes.:crying:
I dont remember what all i did to my phone in order to brick it. So, please help in whatever way you can.
Thanks to everyone in advance.
rocketonp500 said:
This is my first post at XDA. I don't know if I am in the right section. Kindly move the post if required.
Problem
1) I had my Optimus One running CM9.
2) It made my phone slow. So, I flashed it back to CM7.
3) It had some problems, so i was foolish enough to move it back to Gingerbread instead of restoring to CM9.
4) This is where my phone started acting strange. It was getting into a boot loop.
5) I then tried to fix it using some tools I don't remember, but since then it has been dead.
The phone is dead. The phone won't turn on. Not even in emergency mode. No response when charger or USB is connected. It just wont turn on.
It was about 4 months ago when I bricked my phone and had lost hope. I have now known it's hard living without an android.
Please let me know how i can fix this and revive my bricked phone.
Some of you may have a good laugh reading this. But I already have tears in my eyes.:crying:
I dont remember what all i did to my phone in order to brick it. So, please help in whatever way you can.
Thanks to everyone in advance.
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Repair
Sent from a powerful Ice Creamy Device
Reviving my bricked p500
Thanks!!! I kinda guessed nothing could be done. But would have loved a fix. Would have saved bucks!!!
rocketonp500 said:
Thanks!!! I kinda guessed nothing could be done. But would have loved a fix. Would have saved bucks!!!
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The thing is, if it doesn't respond then how are you going to fix it...that's the huge problem.
Moved to General Q&A.
Have you tried another charger? With and without battery.
-- Sent from my TouchPad using Communities
rocketonp500 said:
This is my first post at XDA. I don't know if I am in the right section. Kindly move the post if required.
Problem
1) I had my Optimus One running CM9.
2) It made my phone slow. So, I flashed it back to CM7.
3) It had some problems, so i was foolish enough to move it back to Gingerbread instead of restoring to CM9.
4) This is where my phone started acting strange. It was getting into a boot loop.
5) I then tried to fix it using some tools I don't remember, but since then it has been dead.
The phone is dead. The phone won't turn on. Not even in emergency mode. No response when charger or USB is connected. It just wont turn on.
It was about 4 months ago when I bricked my phone and had lost hope. I have now known it's hard living without an android.
Please let me know how i can fix this and revive my bricked phone.
Some of you may have a good laugh reading this. But I already have tears in my eyes.:crying:
I dont remember what all i did to my phone in order to brick it. So, please help in whatever way you can.
Thanks to everyone in advance.
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It's an LG phone right?.. I also agree to Repair at the service center of your phone.. I recommend that because it's hard bricked.. When I was a newbie and accidentally soft bricked my galaxy pocket (bootloop) I bring it to the samsung service center I thought it will coast some bucks but it's free, they just reformat my phone for One hour and it's now fixed.. but now I use Odin for reformatting my phone using stock firmwares..
dumeds away,
I assume you searched the forum already, but maybe you didn't try this yet:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883314
Hope it helps.
try putting it into download mode and connecting to the computer and checking with odin.i
Reviving P500
krishneelg3 said:
The thing is, if it doesn't respond then how are you going to fix it...that's the huge problem.
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Yes!! There is no way I guess.
post-mortem said:
Have you tried another charger? With and without battery.
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Yes. I tried another chager, USB and stuff. My phone wont come up.
fozzyag said:
I assume you searched the forum already, but maybe you didn't try this yet:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883314
Hope it helps.
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I came across this thread. But, i cannot go into emergency mode. So, I am stuck.
aagampshah97 said:
try putting it into download mode and connecting to the computer and checking with odin.i
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How to get into download mode? I dont really know if it would go into download mode.
Hmm , hopes are less but lets go on with the basics .
Did you try changing the battery ?
I don't think the download mode would work either but try doing the following :
Plug in the USB cable and wait for the charging screen to come on.
Now Press and HOLD the following Keys in the same order: Return Button, Volume Down Button, and the Power Button.
Let go off all the buttons when you first see the LG logo.
Then install cm9 again with odin .
If none works then you either have to go with a new phone or maybe a simple part of the phone has become dead . If it's under warranty get it replaced / repaired .

[Q] Bricked i727, flashed wrong image, please help.

Hi there.
My friend tried to flash a i9100 image to his i727 (Samsung Skyrocket on Rogers). It froze during the right. Now when I try to boot it or do anything, it is totally unresponsive and the screen is completely black. Shows up as a yellow exclamation mark in USBView.exe. I have tried every button combination I know to set it into download mode, pulled the battery, plugged and replugged the USB cable. But it's still black and nothing shows up in Odin.
Just want to know if there's anything else I can do, and if anyone knows about JTAG procedures for this phone. Thanks :laugh:
It's a hard brick. If you check out vincom's stickies, I believe one of them has information on a guy who'll JTAG it for $50. Alternatively, if your friend's still within a year of purchase, you could just warranty the thing out to Sammy. If it won't turn on, they'll probably never be able to see that it was rooted/custom firmware/etc.
T.J. Bender said:
It's a hard brick. If you check out vincom's stickies, I believe one of them has information on who'll JTAG it for $50. Alternatively, if your friend's still within a year of purchase, you could just warranty the thing out to Sammy. If it won't turn on, they'll probably never be able to see that it was rooted/custom firmware/etc.
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Thanks for the quick response. How do you know its a hard brick?
My friend is considering buying the GS4 but the release date is 5 months from now, so its either fix this or replace it.
Rather than shipping it to the USA and back from Canada, could I possibly JTAG it myself? I have flashed Xbox 360 and modem chips before.
I'm guessing cell phone repair shops generally do not handle JTAG issues.
Thanks for your help.
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it'll cost him $50.
this company in toronto claim that they can unbrick the sr , call first and ask for unbricking the i727r http://cellulartech.ca/
flyingpants said:
Thanks for the quick response. How do you know its a hard brick?
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It's completely nonresponsive.
Bricked
vincom said:
this company in toronto claim that they can unbrick the sr , call first and ask for unbricking the i727r http://cellulartech.ca/
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There is also a guy who fixed my bricked i727 and I paid him $39.99
check the link...
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-...d-boot-repair-Hard-bricked-W0QQAdIdZ494430912
bricked
vincom said:
this company in toronto claim that they can unbrick the sr , call first and ask for unbricking the i727r http://cellulartech.ca/
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hi all ... i was searching what kind of a brick do i have (hard/ soft) and i am a bit confused. i was downloading twrp from goo manager and after it downloaded it restarted my phone but it wont move on from the boot samsung logo, i also cannot get into recovery or download mode and luckily my comp is also not recognizing the device either on the samsung logo and obviously when its off.
when i switch my phone off and while holding the vol up and down button insert the cable it again takes me to the samsung boot logo and does nothing odin is unable to recognise.
any suggestions????
idlestranger said:
hi all ... i was searching what kind of a brick do i have (hard/ soft) and i am a bit confused. i was downloading twrp from goo manager and after it downloaded it restarted my phone but it wont move on from the boot samsung logo, i also cannot get into recovery or download mode and luckily my comp is also not recognizing the device either on the samsung logo and obviously when its off.
when i switch my phone off and while holding the vol up and down button insert the cable it again takes me to the samsung boot logo and does nothing odin is unable to recognise.
any suggestions????
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Stop posting this everywhere. One is enough!
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xcrazydx said:
Stop posting this everywhere. One is enough!
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appologies but im really fed up and cant do anything ?
idlestranger said:
appologies but im really fed up and cant do anything ?
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Read the stickies
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