Just thought I'd share my stupidity with you guys. I was trying to get the safestrap correctly set up on my SD card. Well, I had a backup of my SD card on my desktop, but apparently when I moved everything back I cut pasted instead of made a copy, then I reformatted my SD card and lost everything. Crap! Oh well, fresh start not a HUGE problem. I had no ROM so I tried several times to RSD fastboot files onto my phone, but kept getting errors all day. Finally my battery died since I couldn't charge it in AP fastboot mode, when I took out my battery I noticed my SD card wasn't in. It was in my adapter from when I was partitioning it for safestrap, which is why I couldn't get the fastboot files to flash correctly. At this point my phone wouldn't turn on at all, left it plugged in all night, woke up, still wouldn't turn on. I thought I was in for a warranty exchange..again. So finally I did some research and did the, I believe it's called, MacGuyver method where you cut the end of a USB cable and use the pos/neg wires on the battery prongs. I got it to turn on and sat there holding the cables to the prongs for 20 minutes while the fastboot files flashed. My phone is now back to complete stock and I'm happy. I followed my stupidity with some smart moves. Go interwebs!
Ha, I've had to use the MacGuyver method as well on my OG Atrix and man was I sweating. Glad ya back up and running!
Haha nice.
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Okay, i was using my phone yesterday at college, was working perfectly, put it in my jacket pocket, at the end of the lesson (less than an hour later) i took it out and it was off. No big deal i thought, went to turn it back on and now everytime i turn it on it gets stuck at the first orange splash screen.
I've tried just about everything other than a hard reset or ROM update.
Dont really want to do these unless i can backup the files somehow
I've tried: Removing the SD card, Removing the sim card,Removing both, leaving the battery out for an hour,leaving the battery out and the power cord in, also tried getting inot bootloader mode to try and access the device via usb but still no luck,
any help would be greatly appreciated
Danny
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;-
The port on my phone has stopped working. My phone will not recognize that a cable is plugged in at all. Whether it is a cable plugged in thru ac adapter or computer or car charger. I have tried 2 diff cables thats all i have to test. Thing is I am on refuse and have no way to get back to stock since phone doesnt recognize that a cable is connected. I have tried rebooting, battery pulls. any ideas or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
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The port on my phone has stopped working. My phone will not recognize that a cable is plugged in at all. Whether it is a cable plugged in thru ac adapter or computer or car charger. I have tried 2 diff cables thats all i have to test. Thing is I am on refuse and have no way to get back to stock since phone doesnt recognize that a cable is connected. I have tried rebooting, battery pulls. any ideas or suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
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If even ODIN mode is not working you have a hardware failure.
Ok not sure wtf happened but will give yall the run down.
BTW thanks for the reply Entropy512
OK could no longer charge or connect to comp so no going stock for me so what was i to do my phone was fubar.
Ok after talking with all the devs and tech support and general folks in the irc that were available I deleted the system folder thru file expert. If cant boot they cant tell that i had rooted and put a rom on there right.
So jump in truck and for grins plug it in to charger and bam get the samsung logo. But i continue to ATT just in case a fluke. Well of course im bricked at this point. They try charge it, put new batt in (not sure if they left it in). Still wont boot (of course) I go thru the dance and of course they cant get it to work. So I have to go thru warranty. They sending me another phone and they give mine to send back once i get the other.
So get back in truck throw my external sd back in and throw on charger for grins again. Bam I get charge screen. I leave there for good hour. Get my baby home run to comp throw it recognized crank up Odin, go stock, and am in process of flashing it back to the way it should be.
Got replacement phone and sent the other one back it never was right always thought it was connected to comp after it finally connected again. And never another word from att.
Not to revive an old thread, but what happened that got it to work in the truck again? I am helping a friend with your exact same issue, and another thread led me here. His port feels like broken solder connections, and the problem got worse and worse, till now it's pretty useless. He's already got his replacement device, but we're kinda scrambling what to do with the old one before sending it back.
He is bone stock rom, stock recovery, etc so the ONLY problem is that pesky Super User Icon lol. Think he'll be alright?
Not sure what got it to work tbh. It just started working. Of course all it would do is charge cuz i had deleted system folder. But it would not boot so of course att rep couldnt get it to boot so said i would have to wait on replacement phone. So just limped it along till it showed up. Sorry that doesnt help u any but. Only thing i can suggest is to delete system folder or brick it to point it stuck at samsung logo. If bricked cant see super user. Thats how sent mine back. Sorry if not much help.
Same. I have a captivate and my Micro USB won't charge.
So I've been v customizing friends and families S3's today even an old LG Revolution, And I finally got around to doing my dad's and was using going to use odin to just flash the stock image of JB 4.1.2 and then boom lol
Anyways, it said Successful and all that good stuff, unplugged it, and then restarted it but instead it just shut off. And it wont turn back on, But it still makes the notification sound on my laptop for when a device is plugged/unplugged from the USB, and it started installing the Android device drivers as well, so something in that phone still has to be alive.
Please tell me I can fix thi. When I show up at his his house later with a broken S3, he's gonna be so pissed, and I just got a new Note 3 and I really dont wanna have to give it to him as a replacement.
Just read this in a thread if ound on here while doing a search - And if it doesn't work you can force it into downoad mode by holding down the power. volume down and power key without the battery and then putting in a micro usb cord plugged into the computer. Then put in the battery. -
when i did that, the notification LED lit up RED, but I think i did something wrong after that. So I am thinikin this is fixable if I can just get into stock recovery and format/reset system and cache.
and apparently this guy had the same problem and fixed his - Update:
Josh over at MTVideos is the bomb. He was very professional and accommodating. They are typically a mail order operation but I was desperate and only a couple hours away, so he let me stop by. As soon as I showed up, he put down what he was working on and jumped into my phone. This was the first 32 Gb version he'd seen, so we were learning as we went. He explained everything he was doing as he went. First, try the dongle to get into download mode. No go. Next, hook up his JTAG equipment and dump a full backup, Justin Case .
Next, carefully write, address block by address block a known good 16 Gb bootloader and test. All the way up to 18 ( which, if you read the linked threads, was where I dd'd the recovery). Bingo. Once a known good recovery was put back in, it booted right up.
Factory data reset and we were off to the races.
Moral of the story: the recovery is very important. MD5 that ish before pushing.
I do still have one issue. When it boots, it tries to put me in Factory Mode, then FC's "factory mode" twice before letting me use my phone...
Again, a big thanks to Josh for helping me out. Those guys at Mobile Tech Videos really know their stuff and are good at what they do.
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and apparently this guy had the same problem and fixed his - Update:
Josh over at MTVideos is the bomb. He was very professional and accommodating. They are typically a mail order operation but I was desperate and only a couple hours away, so he let me stop by. As soon as I showed up, he put down what he was working on and jumped into my phone. This was the first 32 Gb version he'd seen, so we were learning as we went. He explained everything he was doing as he went. First, try the dongle to get into download mode. No go. Next, hook up his JTAG equipment and dump a full backup, Justin Case .
Next, carefully write, address block by address block a known good 16 Gb bootloader and test. All the way up to 18 ( which, if you read the linked threads, was where I dd'd the recovery). Bingo. Once a known good recovery was put back in, it booted right up.
Factory data reset and we were off to the races.
Moral of the story: the recovery is very important. MD5 that ish before pushing.
I do still have one issue. When it boots, it tries to put me in Factory Mode, then FC's "factory mode" twice before letting me use my phone...
Again, a big thanks to Josh for helping me out. Those guys at Mobile Tech Videos really know their stuff and are good at what they do.
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So yea. dont have Jtag equipment, but apparently this type of Hardbrick has been fixed without JTAG before. Tnere are a few threads/Guides on here. So I just gotta go find a bigger SD Card cause apparently you need a 16GB SD and I only have an 8 right now cause my 64GB got stolen. Other then that I got everything I need including a dual-boot installation of Linux. So as soon one of the Electronic stores around here opens I am going to get that card and hopefully make this thign work.....
I dont get what Happened. I flashed like 4 or 5 S3's yesterday, all of them were on 4.1.1 so I used to odin to flash them to 4.1.2, that file worked fine for all of them, including thw two of them that were Verizon, just like this one is. The phone has never been rooted or anytiing custom at all done to it. And it was not even 3months old. And my stepdad barely uses the thing. Just gonna be one of those days I can tell already.
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So yea. dont have Jtag equipment, but apparently this type of Hardbrick has been fixed without JTAG before. Tnere are a few threads/Guides on here. So I just gotta go find a bigger SD Card cause apparently you need a 16GB SD and I only have an 8 right now cause my 64GB got stolen. Other then that I got everything I need including a dual-boot installation of Linux. So as soon one of the Electronic stores around here opens I am going to get that card and hopefully make this thign work.....
I dont get what Happened. I flashed like 4 or 5 S3's yesterday, all of them were on 4.1.1 so I used to odin to flash them to 4.1.2, that file worked fine for all of them, including thw two of them that were Verizon, just like this one is. The phone has never been rooted or anytiing custom at all done to it. And it was not even 3months old. And my stepdad barely uses the thing. Just gonna be one of those days I can tell already.
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Have seen that happen when battery too low and messing with SD Card and recovery. Remove battery and sd card a few minutes. Replace battery only and plug into charger for at least 30 minutes. Unplug and Try to boot. If it boots. Power off and replace sim card. Reboot. Worth a shot.
I will try that
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Yea that didn't work.
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Hello there,
I am hoping you can help me. I bought a Droid Maxx Developer Edition rooted with the bootloader unlocked on the stock rom about a month ago on ebay used. It worked great up until a few weeks ago when I dropped it. It was only from a height of about 3 feet on to a carpeted floor. It had a case and screen protector on it but when I picked it back up I couldn't get it to turn on at first. When I finally did get it to turn on it would just flash the bootloader unlocked warning and the battery indicator at 0% over and over. So I read around and saw that I needed to get an factory adapter to be able to save it. I got the adapter on Friday and I played around with it some and was able to get it to boot the phone properly but still wasn't able to charge the phone. When I just had my charging cable I was only able to get it into fastboot mode and it would say the battery was low. Now with the adapter it says the battery is ok but still doesn't charge. When I dropped it had at least 70% battery. I am hoping I can recover all my data since I can get it booted up now. Though I am not sure how since the droid maxx doesn't have a sd card. I was thinking and please correct me if this doesn't work but I was thinking maybe I could boot up the phone on the factory cable and then place it on the wireless charger to maybe charge it. I haven't tried it yet since I was afraid to burn up something. I was also reading that there were some roms you could flash that wouldn't hurt your data. I wasn't sure if they were for this phone or for others. That would be nice if I could to that.
I want to try and recover this phone if possible since it is a developer edition and Motorola no longer carry's them. Not that it matters since I have no warranty with them since I did't buy it new. I would bet it was out of warranty when I bought it anyway. Any help or productive suggestions is greatly appreciated.
That sounds to me like s cracked logic board or maybe something on the inside is ripped. I recently bought a mini that was badly bent out of shape...after replacing a battery LCD digitizer frame ear piece, the device would boot only to cool down mode. So a logic swap got me a working phone, if you can get into fastboot.. You may be able to pull files. But I am not too sure
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BoDontKnowDiddley said:
Hello there,
I am hoping you can help me. I bought a Droid Maxx Developer Edition rooted with the bootloader unlocked on the stock rom about a month ago on ebay used. It worked great up until a few weeks ago when I dropped it. It was only from a height of about 3 feet on to a carpeted floor. It had a case and screen protector on it but when I picked it back up I couldn't get it to turn on at first. When I finally did get it to turn on it would just flash the bootloader unlocked warning and the battery indicator at 0% over and over. So I read around and saw that I needed to get an factory adapter to be able to save it. I got the adapter on Friday and I played around with it some and was able to get it to boot the phone properly but still wasn't able to charge the phone. When I just had my charging cable I was only able to get it into fastboot mode and it would say the battery was low. Now with the adapter it says the battery is ok but still doesn't charge. When I dropped it had at least 70% battery. I am hoping I can recover all my data since I can get it booted up now. Though I am not sure how since the droid maxx doesn't have a sd card. I was thinking and please correct me if this doesn't work but I was thinking maybe I could boot up the phone on the factory cable and then place it on the wireless charger to maybe charge it. I haven't tried it yet since I was afraid to burn up something. I was also reading that there were some roms you could flash that wouldn't hurt your data. I wasn't sure if they were for this phone or for others. That would be nice if I could to that.
I want to try and recover this phone if possible since it is a developer edition and Motorola no longer carry's them. Not that it matters since I have no warranty with them since I did't buy it new. I would bet it was out of warranty when I bought it anyway. Any help or productive suggestions is greatly appreciated.
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OTG works to get data off or just use android file transfer (Mac). USB mass storage works as is on windows.
Durteedee said:
That sounds to me like s cracked logic board or maybe something on the inside is ripped. I recently bought a mini that was badly bent out of shape...after replacing a battery LCD digitizer frame ear piece, the device would boot only to cool down mode. So a logic swap got me a working phone, if you can get into fastboot.. You may be able to pull files. But I am not too sure
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How hard is it to do a logic swap? Should I try to do that myself or take it to a phone repair shop?
aviwdoowks said:
OTG works to get data off or just use android file transfer (Mac). USB mass storage works as is on windows.
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Sorry for my ignorance but what is OTG? I will have to try switching to mass storage mode since I have a PC. Is it possible to transfer something over the communications server that is loaded?
See my x/ultra page below. Near the bottom for OTG. Windows it just works in mtp.
What happens when you boot to fastboot with just the usb cable attached to a wall charger? do you get the "charging" message in fastboot? or just Low Battery?
edit: the reason i ask is because I had a similar problem once, where i thought the phone was fubar'd cause I couldnt get it to boot, or show anything when plugged into the wall, but i left it overnight and when i got back in the am it worked. the only thing that could get my phone to boot previously was my factory cable
Search XDA for OTG!
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What happens when you boot to fastboot with just the usb cable attached to a wall charger? do you get the "charging" message in fastboot? or just Low Battery?
edit: the reason i ask is because I had a similar problem once, where i thought the phone was fubar'd cause I couldnt get it to boot, or show anything when plugged into the wall, but i left it overnight and when i got back in the am it worked. the only thing that could get my phone to boot previously was my factory cable
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My first attempt to revive the phone I plugged it into the wall with the usb cable and when I booted it up into fastboot mode it said charging. Unfortunately I couldn't leave well enough alone and kept trying to get it to fully boot. When I finally stopped trying and tried to get it into fast boot and get it to charge, it would only say low battery. Then the other day when I got the factory adapter I plugged it in and booted to fast boot and it still said battery low. Then in an attempt to see if the factory adapter would let me transfer files over I plugged it into my PC. I was amazed that it booted up fully. I was excited and I looked it over and didn't see any damage from the fall. The battery indicator widget showed it was plugged in but only 1% and not charging. So I thought I would try fast boot mode with the adapter plugged in. When it booted into fast boot mode this time it said battery ok. I was so happy. So I left it plugged in all day to let it charge. When I finally got home and unplugged it, still dead.
So now that I read your suggestion of plugging it into the wall, I gave it a try since I hadn't tried it since using the adapter. I booted into fast boot and got low battery again. Then I came up with the idea to plug it into my PC. I booted into fast boot and now it is charging!!! I don't want to get my hopes up because I have been disappointed before. It is something new at least. I am, let's just say cautiously optimistic.
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My first attempt to revive the phone I plugged it into the wall with the usb cable and when I booted it up into fastboot mode it said charging. Unfortunately I couldn't leave well enough alone and kept trying to get it to fully boot. When I finally stopped trying and tried to get it into fast boot and get it to charge, it would only say low battery. Then the other day when I got the factory adapter I plugged it in and booted to fast boot and it still said battery low. Then in an attempt to see if the factory adapter would let me transfer files over I plugged it into my PC. I was amazed that it booted up fully. I was excited and I looked it over and didn't see any damage from the fall. The battery indicator widget showed it was plugged in but only 1% and not charging. So I thought I would try fast boot mode with the adapter plugged in. When it booted into fast boot mode this time it said battery ok. I was so happy. So I left it plugged in all day to let it charge. When I finally got home and unplugged it, still dead.
So now that I read your suggestion of plugging it into the wall, I gave it a try since I hadn't tried it since using the adapter. I booted into fast boot and got low battery again. Then I came up with the idea to plug it into my PC. I booted into fast boot and now it is charging!!! I don't want to get my hopes up because I have been disappointed before. It is something new at least. I am, let's just say cautiously optimistic.
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Good luck, please keep us posted. I know when it happened to me, it was crazy annoying trying to get it to charge. as long as you have "charging" you should be okay!
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Good luck, please keep us posted. I know when it happened to me, it was crazy annoying trying to get it to charge. as long as you have "charging" you should be okay!
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Unfortunately while it said charging...It wasn't. My heart sank after leaving it on to charge all day and when I booted from fast boot and it just started boot looping again. Sigh.
Well that wasn't my last option so I am trying to stay positive. Is there a way to flash the stock rom on it and not lose my data? Honestly I have never flashed any roms before so this will be fun. lol
I really appreciate everyone's help.
BoDontKnowDiddley said:
Unfortunately while it said charging...It wasn't. My heart sank after leaving it on to charge all day and when I booted from fast boot and it just started boot looping again. Sigh.
Well that wasn't my last option so I am trying to stay positive. Is there a way to flash the stock rom on it and not lose my data? Honestly I have never flashed any roms before so this will be fun. lol
I really appreciate everyone's help.
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Does fastboot still say 1% battery??
Google up on House of Moto, its a CMD/Shell based tool that allows you to flash a FXZ with the "keep data" option. Let me know if you have any specific questions regarding HOM once you DL
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Does fastboot still say 1% battery??
Google up on House of Moto, its a CMD/Shell based tool that allows you to flash a FXZ with the "keep data" option. Let me know if you have any specific questions regarding HOM once you DL
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Fast boot without the adapter connected to the PC says Battery Low (charging)
Fast boot with the adapter connected to the PC says Battery OK
Fast boot with/without adapter plugged into the wall says Battery Low
With the adapter and plugged into my PC I can boot into the phone and the battery widget still says 1%.
The battery icon that pops up during the boot loop still says 0%
Ok I am just getting off work now so I will give that a try once I get home. Crossing my fingers and hoping this works.
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Fast boot without the adapter connected to the PC says Battery Low (charging)
Fast boot with the adapter connected to the PC says Battery OK
Fast boot with/without adapter plugged into the wall says Battery Low
With the adapter and plugged into my PC I can boot into the phone and the battery widget still says 1%.
The battery icon that pops up during the boot loop still says 0%
Ok I am just getting off work now so I will give that a try once I get home. Crossing my fingers and hoping this works.
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good luck!
where was the phone dropped, was it directly on the bottom where the USB would plug into the phone?
asuhoops8628 said:
good luck!
where was the phone dropped, was it directly on the bottom where the USB would plug into the phone?
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Ok I wasn't able to mess with it yet cuz I got called into my other job. I hope to play with it some after I get home today but I need to mow my lawn first.
It fell on it's side actually.