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1st person with totally bricked G2x

SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up

It's not a brick if it turns on! But I'm fairly new to this phone and I'm not familiar with it at all Normally I would suggest to fastboot flash the new OFFICIAL CWM recovery image, but I don't even know where to begin with fastboot on this phone

chillwillo9 said:
SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up
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It would probably be a little helpful (if you want help) if you let everyone know what you were doing when you "bricked" your phone. That way people know where to start in assisting you.

chillwillo9 said:
SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up
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I had a infinite loop problem on mine. I just restored to stock.
Turn phone off (pull battery if needed)
Turn on while holding volume down + power button

chillwillo9 said:
SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up
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What happens when you try to boot into recovery mode?

OK here is what I did to brick my device.
I wanted to do a factory reset and I used clockwork recovery to do so.
Wat I didn't know what that Clockwork recovery was going to format my system.
I can only get into fast boot via vol up+vol+down+power
Cannot get back to stock recovery or CWM. Tried flashing via fastboot method
My phone just goes to LG screen no loading bar
Currently the only function is fastboot

Did you try formatting via Vol-Down + Power?

xenoletum said:
Did you try formatting via Vol-Down + Power?
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Yes I did but same result stuck Lg screen no loading bar.
Capacitive touch also are not lit appear to be not working

1) Fastboot flash the official CWM recovery image
2) download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
3) put the NANDROID in the correct folder on your sdcard: /sdcard/_ExternalSD/clockworkmod/backup/
4) restore via recovery

Thanks for everyones input, Called t-mobile they are shipping a new one out asap. I'm just going to have to suck it up till tuesday.
I love trial and error they only thing i lost is a little time

omarsalmin said:
1) Fastboot flash the official CWM recovery image
2) download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
3) put the NANDROID in the correct folder on your sdcard: /sdcard/_ExternalSD/clockworkmod/backup/
4) restore via recovery
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I flashed official CWM recovery image numerous times via fastboot and phone just gets stuck at lg screen. Once again vol up+power and vol down+pwer does nothing
Is there another fastboot method or adb method to restore CWM?

did the same thing it bricked my phone does nothing else than start up then freezes. f-ING pissed

The best thing with Nvidia phones and tablets is that its barely impossible to brick your phone. If you think you bricked it - you just need NV flash and either the stock rom or stock recovery and you are back to normal
I have done that with my old G-tablet - it was a piece of cake to fix it.

is there an nv flash for mac?

thought i did the same thing!
if you can get it into format hit the home button. hopefully vol+down+power will get you there. pull your battery and you may just get lucky if done enough times? i would keep trying. good luck

Can't boot into recovery

I have my Nexus S 4g rooted and loaded with ClockworkMod 3.1.0.1 But doing the volume down and power method I can't get it to boot into recovery it just boots normal. In Rom manager if I goto boot into recovery it just takes me some other type of thing that is not recovery (looks like a download screen or something).
Any idea's?
Thanks.

Volume up and power is the correct combination.
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Psycoboy15 said:
I have my Nexus S 4g rooted and loaded with ClockworkMod 3.1.0.1 But doing the volume down and power method I can't get it to boot into recovery it just boots normal. In Rom manager if I goto boot into recovery it just takes me some other type of thing that is not recovery (looks like a download screen or something).
Any idea's?
Thanks.
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and it also sounds like you need to reflash your recovery. dont flash it via rom manager, flash it via fastboot so that it sticks.

ya thanks. I just flashed it via fastboot. Booting phone up now and going to make sure I can still get to it manually. Thanks for the help. Just came from an Epic 4G so it's a bit different.

Ok, doesn't seem to be sticking for some reason... I just powered it up and then back down. Tried to boot back into recovery and same issue. Is there something else I need to do? Did forget to mention. After the fastboot method I can boot directly into clockworkmod then. But once I reboot it will not.
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Actually think I just found the solution... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856999 Will update if it fixed it. [/edit]
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ya that fixed it. I didn't actually follow the steps. Since I knew I could push the recovery if something screwed up I just flashed crynogenmod and no more issues so that must have been it.

[Q] No longer able to boot into ClockworkMod Recovery after latest ROM flash.

After flashing the latest ROM I was messing around with (WajkIUI 2.1.6) the phone would crash and reboot within 30 seconds of booting up. The previous ROM that was running was FAUXMIUI_RG2xV2.0.0 (01/08/2011 [v2.0.0]OVERCLOCK) that was stable except for when I’d turn wi-fi on after being off for 8 hours or so phone would reboot.
I figured I would boot into ClockworkMod Recovery and restore one of the nandroid backups, I tried booting into recovery I found out that I could not. When I hold the volume down and press the power button I see the screen that says software update (like when flashing with OneClickRecoveryFlasher).
Whenever I flash a new ROM I will Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, and then wipe dalvik before installing zip. I’ve always run cyanogenmod nighties; FAUXMIUI_RG2xV2.0.0 was the first MIUI ROM I’ve used.
When I run OneClickRecoveryFlasher, I do not see any errors on the command prompt so I am assuming it was successful, or at least thinks it was.
I tried to Restore LG G2x Stock Recovery using OneClickRecoveryFlasher and then flashing v5.0.2.0 and still no ClockworkMod Recovery, also tried v4.0.1.5 and still no ClockworkMod Recover.
I then tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644 and with that I was able to get back to stock 2.3.3, tried to use OneClickRecoveryFlasher to flash ClockworkMod, still no go.
I tried LG Mobile Update and that proceeded to install something, not really sure what the update was, after the update finished, phone rebooted into stock 2.3.3. Shut the phone down and tried to flash ClockworkMod and still nothing.
I did a hard reset following http://mobilephonerepairguides.blogspot.com/2011/04/lg-g2x-hard-reset.html
I also tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183168, that got me to stock 2.3.3 but I still could not boot in to ClockwordMod Recovery.
I’m having a hell of a time wrapping my head around what I screwed up. Did I somehow destroy the recovery partition, is that possible? Any ideas what I broke and how to fix it? Can I used adb to view the partition table, would that tell me if something was corrupt?
Any help and ideas would be appreciated, I have tried doing my due diligence and I apologize if I missed something obvious.
Thanks,
-Matt

Faux never made a miui
Did you nvflashed recovery? If no then do that first.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!

If you did the LG Updater it returned your phone to stock everything, including recovery. You need to use NVFlash (One Click method okay) to reflash CWM and then you should be good to go.

When the phone is completely off, hold volume down, then hold the power button and don't let go of both until the second lg logo.
If you hold volume down too early it'll give you the software update screen.

Well that's embarrassing, thanks buru898 that did the trick and got me into CWM Recovery. I never remember holding the power button for that long but it worked and I'll remember that for next time.
Thanks

fcisco13 said:
Faux never made a miui
Did you nvflashed recovery? If no then do that first.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
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Sorry, I only wrote in the actual zip file name, I meant RG2x-MIUI v2.1.6-MultiLang/Powered by Faux Kernels CM v0.4.8(01/08/2012)[v2.0.0].
Thanks

[Q] Help with booting loop please

I searched around and couldn't find how to fix my booting problem. I have a Verizon Galaxy S3. I was rooted, installed ezlocked and unlocked it. I then installed ezrecovery and did a back up. Then I wiped everything on and it and tried to install CM10. It failed, so I rebooted and everything went back to stock. I repeated the ezunlock and ezrecovery and then attempted to install CM10 without wiping the data/cache(because I'm an idiot). Now when I start the phone it takes me right into the CM10 booting animation. I can't get into download mode or recovery mode. Whenever I try to get into those it takes me right back into the booting animation. Battery pulls do nothing.
I know I'm a noob and I can't believe I did this. I can't get back into CWM or download mode so I can flash through Odin. Any help would be really appreciated.

Tyjames48 said:
I searched around and couldn't find how to fix my booting problem. I have a Verizon Galaxy S3. I was rooted, installed ezlocked and unlocked it. I then installed ezrecovery and did a back up. Then I wiped everything on and it and tried to install CM10. It failed, so I rebooted and everything went back to stock. I repeated the ezunlock and ezrecovery and then attempted to install CM10 without wiping the data/cache(because I'm an idiot). Now when I start the phone it takes me right into the CM10 booting animation. I can't get into download mode or recovery mode. Whenever I try to get into those it takes me right back into the booting animation. Battery pulls do nothing.
I know I'm a noob and I can't believe I did this. I can't get back into CWM or download mode so I can flash through Odin. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Did you try holding the power button, up on the volume, and the home button when you boot the phone to get to CWM?
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do you have the sdk set up? can you use adb?

Were you on a JellyBean baseband? If so to enter recovery you have to let go of the power button on the vibrate and keep pressing the home key + vol up.

x714x said:
Were you on a JellyBean baseband? If so to enter recovery you have to let go of the power button on the vibrate and keep pressing the home key + vol up.
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I was going from stock ICS to CM10. But yeah, you were right. I tried like a hundred different ways to try to get into download mode. I finally got it to work and then flashed through Odin. Thanks everybody! I feel like a dumbass.

Urgent help needed please, Bricked device ?

URGENT HELP NEEDED PLEASE;
Can you please help my buddy Tyler, he just got the T-Mobile Note 5, and he rooted it, and installed TWRP Recovery, and flashed a ROM for the first time, but he's afraid he may have bricked his device ?
Here's the thread I have been coaching him at. Any opinions ?
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1869279&page=23
Thank you.

As long as he knows what he's doing and has a unlock bootloader he should be fine

airam0931 said:
As long as he knows what he's doing and has a unlock bootloader he should be fine
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He did get the whole root thing figured out, and his phone does have SuperSU installed, he then installed TWRP Recovery through Odin, and is running the latest Modem COI5.
He downloaded a T-Mobile ROM, and Arty97 Kernel, flashed the ROM + Kernel, and he said been stuck on the boot screen for 25 minutes, and can't get back into Recovery.
Suggestions ?

Actually never mind after reading that whole thread I would reccomend download the stock rom and then flashing it . This happened to me when I flashed the wrong framework for my device. It got stuck on the same screen . I flashed in with my stock rom and it went back to normal and I didn't lose anything.

Tyler made this comment, can't seem to even power off the phone.
amn, you really are trying to help. That's awesome. Sadly however, the thing won't turn off no matter how long I hold the power button.
I saw one thread on reddit that suggested downloading a stock ROM and flashing through Odin. But, I can't find a stock ROM and I don't think you can flash ROMs through Odin.

He did manage to get this after trying to power down./
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Now what he asked ?

Tell him to put it into download mode then flash his stock rom . I Googled it and found it super easily and even found instructions

This is Tyler, the guy Zorachus has tried so hard t help. I've been googling for stoc ROMs but haven't found any to download. Can I flash a ROM through Odin?
I'm iPhone jailbreaker guy, so all this Android stuff is new t me.

I want to post the link I found but I can't because this site has a 10 post rule to post links and I haven't done 10 posts and don't worry this is my first Android phone . I've been jailbreaking since 4.1.2 so the switch was weird for me too haha but yes you can flash flash a rom through Odin

Here:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/56127/N920TUVU2COI5_N920TTMB2COI5_TMB/
Make sure it is the correct model and follow the instructions.
Don't worry, you should be fine.

If he got stuck again, hold down volume up and down and power at the same time and it reboots
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Get back to download mode by holding home power and volume down at same time and Odin right stock rom for n920t and should be fine you can find all you need in the n5 t-mobile forum on xda-developers most everyone in forum are very helpful
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matteosaeed said:
If he got stuck again, hold down volume up and down and power at the same time and it reboots
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Just the volume down and power does the trick ?
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I had this same issue, I found out that TWRP did not actually flash the rom so the phone sat on the boot logo with no OS to load, then read up on arter97's kernel and he recommends switching to PhilZ touch recovery instead of TWRP. He provides a download to this recovery on his thread I do believe. Luckily I had downloaded the recovery and simply flashed it via TWRP (Hint: while I was stuck on the boot up logo, the only thing that worked for me is holding Vol-, home and power, then as soon as the screen goes dark, switch from holding Vol- and hold Vol+ instead, wait a bit and recovery should boot).
Once I got Philz touch installed, I rebooted the recovery and voila, no more TWRP. I simply flashed the ROM through it and rebooted again, back in business.
So to conclude, I get the feeling you're experiencing the same problem, where you went wrong is using TWRP with the arter97 kernel.
EDIT: You're in luck! Go here: http://arter97.com/browse/exynos7420/kernel/5.0/n920tw8/
Grab the tar.md5 file and flash with Odin with the phone in download mode, then reboot to new recovery and flash your rom again

micfinn said:
I had this same issue, I found out that TWRP did not actually flash the rom so the phone sat on the boot logo with no OS to load, then read up on arter97's kernel and he recommends switching to PhilZ touch recovery instead of TWRP. He provides a download to this recovery on his thread I do believe. Luckily I had downloaded the recovery and simply flashed it via TWRP (Hint: while I was stuck on the boot up logo, the only thing that worked for me is holding Vol-, home and power, then as soon as the screen goes dark, switch from holding Vol- and hold Vol+ instead, wait a bit and recovery should boot).
Once I got Philz touch installed, I rebooted the recovery and voila, no more TWRP. I simply flashed the ROM through it and rebooted again, back in business.
So to conclude, I get the feeling you're experiencing the same problem, where you went wrong is using TWRP with the arter97 kernel.
EDIT: You're in luck! Go here: http://arter97.com/browse/exynos7420/kernel/5.0/n920tw8/
Grab the tar.md5 file and flash with Odin with the phone in download mode, then reboot to new recovery and flash your rom again
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Hey thanks!!!! You saved my a$$ I have been dealing with this for 6+ hours now & couldn't get past the boot logo & your suggestion worked! I <3 you! Lol

Thank **** I found your post mate, I was stuck in a never ending boot loop with no way to get into recovery either.
The trick about holding down Vol-, home and power, and then switching to vol+ at blackscreen but keeping the others down, that thing worked and I was able to make it into my recovery!
Sadly however I made the most foolish mistake of all in my hurry and went for a factory reset.
On top of that I don't think that Titanium Backup was set to auto sync on my new phone so I might possibly have lost everything I have. Let's find out.