Hello, I am trying to help my friend unbrick his phone.
All I know is that he was trying to use a one click root program and after several reboots the phone would no longer boot. It vibrates three times and flashes an orange light.
If I plug the phone into my computer, clockwork mod recovery with the words "ace hack kit" will show up. I tried wiping data, cachce, etc. and installing Android Revolution HD.
On my computer, if I type "adb devices" then it will show H13142452345 recovery.
If I type adb reboot bootloader the phone will vibrate three times and flash the orange light.
When the phone is plugged into my computer during the blinking orange light, then my computer says "device drivers not found for Qualcomm MSM"
I have also tried booting the phone with the sd card and SIM card removed.
Can anyone help?
Thank you.
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The problem was that my volume buttons were broken. Once I destroyed the ribbon cable connecting the volume buttons to the motherboard, the phone booted up just fine.
azndan2 said:
Hello, I am trying to help my friend unbrick his phone.
All I know is that he was trying to use a one click root program and after several reboots the phone would no longer boot. It vibrates three times and flashes an orange light.
If I plug the phone into my computer, clockwork mod recovery with the words "ace hack kit" will show up. I tried wiping data, cachce, etc. and installing Android Revolution HD.
On my computer, if I type "adb devices" then it will show H13142452345 recovery.
If I type adb reboot bootloader the phone will vibrate three times and flash the orange light.
When the phone is plugged into my computer during the blinking orange light, then my computer says "device drivers not found for Qualcomm MSM"
I have also tried booting the phone with the sd card and SIM card removed.
Can anyone help?
Thank you.
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First, you shouldn't have used a root program that does not support your device. The only efficient rooting method to the moment is the Hack Kit. Anyway. Try reverting your phone to stock using the hack kit. You shouldn't have wiped data also as you have probably disabled USB debugging. If you can't revert it to stock with the hack kit, then your best choice is to hit the IRC channel and ask for help. The guys there know the business and might be able to help. Hope you.can sort the issue out.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App
Thanks. I'm not sure what program he was using to try to root the phone, my guess is that he was using the ace hack kit because the recovery on his phone says "ace hack kit" on it. Thanks for the tip on going to the IRC.
You've bricked it, I believe the phone is now in Qualcomm's Diagnostic dload mode.
Confirmed, you're in Qualcomm's Diagnostic mode.
My suggestion is to try and find a PD98IMG file that flashes everything to stock, use a clean FAT32 sd card, put it in the phone, and then try to see if it'll flash it when you press volume-down and power. Apparently that should give you five vibrations, then after 5 minutes, press volume up to let it vibrate once, then spend about another 10 minutes before pressing volume up one more time.
Thanks for the reply Hunter. I've tried a variety of button combinations and methods to try to get it to boot into the five vibration green light mode. Unfortunately, no matter what button combination I press I can only get it into 3 vibration orange light mode.
Did you attempt the Hack kit ?
Help please
Im in a dire situation, what do I do. Could some one give me a step by step explanation??
Thank you that would be a big help
it vibrated 5 times and i have a green light, for a while the battery charging thing came up, what do I do??????
I can not help you now, but as a last resort could find a technician and ask for "medusa box"(search in crome explorer). I have this device and I'm back to life a dozen android devices completely bricked, and the htc inspire 4g is fully supported by medusa box, luck
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here is my problem guys. i was trying to flash my htc touch 2 sprint it with Raphaelhardspl(wrong flashing) and in the process the screen went blank. i was trying to do it one more time and my PC is asking for qualcomm cdmd technologies msn driver, every time i connect the phone to my PC. i have tried it soft reset. and hard reset wont work. any suggestion will be thanks full. thank you. the main problem is that my pc wont recognize ??
WHOEVER solve my problem will pay 50 buck via paypal
The quickest way to brick your phone is to try to flash it with programs meant for other phones, which it appears you have done.( bricked )
Try putting it into bootloader and flashing stock rom , or try mtty.exe, but if your pc won't recognize it and your screen shows no life, it is probably toast. Does it at least have hardspl on it . ?
yes it does have hardspl. there have to be a way that my pc will recognized it. i think.
As denco7 said, have you tried getting into the bootloader mode?
Hold volume down and press the red button with your stylus.
Connect your pro2 to your PC and if it connects the word 'serial' will change into 'USB'.
If it does, your device is not bricked.
I suggest you flash Hard-SPL again, and make sure to follow the instructions exactly! Don't think you can do it just in a minute, just take your time.
Then flash another ROM by using MTTY (see here) and there you'll get some instructions.
Good luck!
it wont go to boot loader mode, when i connect it to the pc it begin to charge and noting happen , then suddenly the light go off and the pc detect a driver is missing quaccom etc. does any one know about that this driver.
I've had that before... that the MSM technology qualcomm **** is asking for a driver.
There's a driver replacement (used before mtty). You can try to install that; altough I don't think it will help.
If you can't get into bootloader your device is (probably) bricked.
What you can also try is getting your battery, sd-card and simcard out of your phone and leave it for an hour. Then put the battery only back, and try to boot.
Does your phone start when you press the start button? So do you feel a vibrate or somethin like that?
no it wont start but maybe by following that MTTY my pc read it, i will try it. . it doesn even bibrate it just that power light show when that phone its charging thats all.
thanks for you comment guys.
That's strange.
There's one last thing you could try: the ultimate hard-reset
Some time ago I bricked my diamond. I tried all available sofkey combinations.
Then, suddenly, my device vibrated like 3 tiimes very loudly.
It didn't still boot nor go into bootloader.
But after about 4 hours it booted!
I only don't know what the combination was... something like VOl UP + VOL DWN + lOCK BUTTON + RESET.
Just try some combinations, maybe it works for you.maybe not, but you could try it.
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So far this has been the only sure fire method I've found to 100% get around any brick situation regardless of firmware, etc. This only works for the captivate, not any other galaxy s variant.
Situations: phone-!-Computer / no download mode
Black Screen / RST_STATUS 0x0
Procedure:
1. Remove the battery, external SD card and SIM card.
2. Wait 10 seconds.
3. Open odin3
4. Connect usb cable.
5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.
6. Insert battery.
7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.
You should now be in immediate download mode.
Please forgive me if this is duplicate some where, but I tried every procedure I could find on google to no avail, then accidentally found this method just before I was going to box it back up and see if my buddy at AT&T would make me eat it or not.
My situation was: Launched Odin3 to flash H3 firmware, died twice in the middle, and on the third time locked up half ways just at the beginning of factoryfs.rfs -- Then the phone did nothing. Blackscreen is all. Interestingly enough, while in the state if you hold volume up + power, it will give a hw diagnostic screen. Beyond that I could get no where. Just a black screen, no acknowledgement when connected to PC, no charging indicator, nothing.
If this is a dupe Im sorry but this method I could not find and hope to make it readily available to people who may think their phones bricked.
Update 12/22/2010:
How to BRICK the phone / WARNING!!!
If for whatever reason you decide to use Odin to flash a stock GTI9000 ROM and manually add the kernels and modems using a "pure" 2.2.1 sammy rom. BEWARE.
Researching a lot, it seems the consensus is that the sbl in the 2.2.1 versions of the GTI9000 has *hard* download mode crippled.. Meaning if there is a software screw up YOU CANNOT USE A USB JIG OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF GETTING THE PHONE IN DOWNLOAD MODE!!! To fix it you'll need a new one or JTAG to replace the bootloader.
As far as I can tell, beyond getting completely rid of the AT&T logo, there is no need to flash boot/sbl to get the "purity" of the 2.2.1 sammy roms.
Extract all files from the tar EXCEPT boot/sbl and re-tar and flash just those to avoid overwriting the stock captivate boot loader.
Also, it does not appear the boot/sbl from the captivate 2.2 leak suffers this same problem.
For any one iffy on bricking their phones, stay away from roms that remove COMPLETELY the AT&T logo on boot. This generally means the boot loader has been messed with any you may be screwed if you soft brick the phone. Most CWM roms dont overwrite the boot/sbl, but some can and do. Watch yourself.. if it the AT&T logo goes away COMPLETELY, I recommend flashing JF6 with One click while the roms alive using adb reboot download and try another rom.
thanks!
worked...took a few tries but some trick with this captivate to get it into download mode.. i was totally bricked too, diag screen with PC/Phone icons and exclamation mark. for me 1.) plug usb, 2.) hold power and vol up/down and connect battery (it fell out) and i was in download mode
I guess a similar procedure was on the odin3 one click thread, but there is something different in your procedure, it's not my case but it would be nice if some people confirms this as this may be useful and if it really works it should be included in odin thread
What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.
I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
mine is dead
mi samsung captivate was working great but, suddenly it go black and only the touch bottom have light, when i plug it in the a/c it show is charging. i'm mac user and a read that i ned to use odin3 but it not work on mac. how i can unbrick the phone???
is rooted with one click lag
the dbdata was modif to
thats all
HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP
Odin will not open on the mac?
Cant you use a virtual machine and use Odin on a Mac that way?
Or else take the odin 3 single click for JF6 and use on a friends Windows Computer.
Please help - unable to flash back with Odin3
I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."
Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.
Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
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I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."
Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.
Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
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Best way to get download mode is use adb and type adb reboot download.
Or follow the volume up/down held with odin open on the computer, then you plug in the usb cable to the computer.
askpcguy said:
What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.
I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
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Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
mattbeau said:
Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
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Just sharing the info! Makes you think twice about trying something else don't it?
does not seem to work because as soon as my battery touches the contacts it goes to the diag screen. do I have to release the power button in super human speed times there?
looked at all threads here, looked elsewhere -- there are some that are not fixable. Wanted to add that in case others come here and think that they might be the only ones that can't get it to work.
Ended up sending mine off to Samsung to reset today. :/
I love you! I called AT&T to send me documentation to sign and it was going to cost me 125 dollars to get it replaced even with warranty. And you fixed it !
i have tried just about every single method detailed in these forums, and nothing works.
Trying what OP suggested just sends me to the battery charging animation screen.
Anybody have any ideas ?
file analysis
I keep can get to the download screen and I hit start and it does the same thing everytime it just does File analysis i cant figure what i am doing wrong here somebody please help me
I think the issue was it had something to do with 64 bit windows 7 i just re did the stock rom one click solution and it worked fine
thekurrgan said:
NOTE:
5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.
6. Insert battery.
7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.
You should now be in immediate download mode.
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Thank you for sharing your experience.
I don't have a Captivate yet but am doing research on it and hopeful of getting one. I am confused about one thing.
Every where that I have read about how to enter Recovery mode or Download mode on the Captivate using the 3 button method, it says holding down both Volume UP + Volume Down (plus Power button) will enter Recovery mode. But you say it enters Download mode which is confusing to me. As I recall, to enter Download mode you must press the Vol Down only (plus Power button). Could it be because the phone won't go into Recovery mode, it goes into Download mode instead? Am I missing something?
Thank you!
Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.
Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.
Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.
If that doesnt work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.
Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
askpcguy said:
Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.
Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.
Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.
If that doesn't work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.
Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
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Thank you askpcguy! I understand the difference between Download and Recovery modes.
So the procedural difference here is having the battery in + Power button, versus battery not in (use USB cable instead) and no Power button. Can the phone get power from the PC via the USB cable? This seems to differ from what the original poster said about download mode. Perhaps OP could edit his original post for clarification? Or am I still missing something? Thanks to all
The phone does get power from the USB cable.
The difference is one procedure uses the USB cable (download mode) and the other does not (Recovery mode).
The volume up+down method does not use the power button, the phone is powered on into download mode once you plug in the USB cable.
We say pull the battery to get the phone powered off. If a firmware flash stalled or doesn't complete, pull the battery and try again!
I now understand the precedural difference.
Thank you askpcguy!
Hey...
I used to remove Revolution HD and want to get it back S-ON etc. so it would be like it was as i get the Phone. I followed all steps, but after typing in "fastboot reboot-boatloader" the phone turns off and won't start again. not even in recovery mode when i press vol down and power button.
But when i connect it to my pc, the "connection-sound" appears. But nothing else.
if i charge it, no LED is green or red. pls help me. i bought it in Saturn 1 month ago. did you think i can switch it? would they notice something?
thx 4 any help !
Did you try pulling the battery then re-inserting it and booting into recovery?
yes... i also pulled out the sd-card.. but both didn't worked. nothing changed.
I found out, that when i connect my Sensation to my PC, in the system appears a new device called "QHSUSB_DLOAD"
ok, so after rooting and trying to install CWM, my phone will not boot, only blinks red light. I think when i was trying to flash img files over to the phone, i lost connection and wasnt able to transfer the bootloader.imgs to the phone. Following this, when i plugged it in, i would get numerous drives trying to open, but said they needed to be formatted. I then tried the UBUNTU method, which led to my phone not even being recognized... but my question is, why is it so tough flash a recovery to the phone now? I remember when I had my S3, it was much easier to do this....i have a lg g2 if that helps....i have tried all the guides, and like i said, all i get now when i hold the power button and volume down, is 8 blinks of the red light...has anyone had this problem, if so what did you do to solve the problem?
Can you get into download mode?
Power completely off.
Plug the Usb cable into a computer.
Hold vol-up while plugging in the Usb to the phone.
If you can get that, then you can use LGFlashTool to reset.
Sent from my LG-D800
Hey guys - I hope you're doing well.
I recently got an HTC U12+, but wanted to try using a custom ROM due to all of the bloatware . Unfortunately I think I've ended up bricking my device. Here are some things I've since tried:
- Restoring to the backup I made beforehand in TWRP - restore works without any errors, but then just hangs at the boot screen
- Method 1 from this thread (https://forum.xda-developers.com/u12-plus/how-to/collection-htcu-u12-ruu-firmware-t3794664) - TWRP always says the zip files are corrupted for some reason
- Method 3 from that same thread - this actually worked before, but I tried installing a custom ROM again, somehow messed up again, and now this method no longer works as it just hangs at the "HTC" boot screen for eternity
- Both methods in this thread (https://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-install-htc-firmware-ruu-and-zip/) - the first one leads to a "failed remote 99 ru unknown fail terrible mishap" error, and for some reason my PC doesn't see my phone when I try the second despite being able to see it in file manager
- Probably many other methods that I've now forgotten
I know this is a whole lot of information, but I'm in desperate need of some help. I typically like to troubleshoot things myself, but I've been trying to fix this for quite some time now and could definitely use another set of (much more experienced) eyes. I greatly appreciate any help you guys can provide.
Thanks.
Flash RUU with SD card method
Download RUU from here(important:check your CID): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wIRrVQawd5rD-t9VKPQ-SdRK20RcJVZhwD7lhmPIK8w/edit#gid=0
1. rename RUU to 2Q55IMG.zip
2. copy zip in the root of your sd card. - external card / not internal - it will not work
3. reboot to download mode,
4. your device will pick up the zip file and flash it.
5.follow on screen instructions and enjoy your RUU(this method erase all your data)
I'm having an issue with my u12+ where it just continually reboots to a message saying "The boot loader is unlocked and the software integrity cannot be guaranteed. Any data stored on the device maybe available to attackers, do not store sensitive data on this device" and then it shows the white HTC logo that says Powered by Android down the bottom of the screen, it stays like that for about 5 minutes and then reboots and does the same thing over again.
Holding the power down button does nothing, it will not turn off the phone. Holding power and volume down does nothing either. The phone just does this every 6 minutes and reboots and cycle and that's it.
I've tried putting the file 2Q55IMG_IMAGINE_DUGL_O80_SENSE10GP_hTC_Asia_TW_1.53.709.1_Radio_sdm845-000201b-1807311356_release_531499_signed_2_4.zip (renamed to 2Q55IMG.zip) on the root of a 8gb Fat32 formatted SD card, but I just can't get into recovery or download mode.
I've tried holding down all 3 side buttons for minutes, or just the power button, or combination of buttons, they all do nothing to the phone. (it's as tho they are disabled, but sometimes holding a combination of the 3 will make the phone vibrate a little bit, but in no particular time or order)
When the phone is in either state (locked bootloader message or white HTC logo) my Windows 10 PC sees the phone plugged in as a "USB Input Device", not an Android Phone or Android Device. So using ADB or Fastboot commands do not work to it. I've tried to force the driver to the HTC driver but that does not work.
I also tried using the RUU_IMAGINE_UHL_O80_SENSE10GP_NA_Gen_Unlock_1.30.617.2.exe file, but once again it doesn't detect my phone.
Any help would be kindly appreciated.
Cheers!
EDIT: So I was finally able to get into download mode by waiting until the phone done its 6 minute reboot and then holding power down until it vibrated once, then held volume up until it vibrated again, then let go of the power button, I was then able to choose recovery, download etc.
So I managed to get the file 2Q55IMG.zip to install, it said it installed 100% okay. The phone rebooted and now I'm stuck again just at the white HTC logo and Power by Android down the bottom of the screen.
This time the phone is not automatically rebooting itself and no key combinations will make it reboot. I've tried holding them all in certain combinations for periods of time, the phone will not reboot or turn off.
EDIT 2: So maybe I didn't wait long enough after installing the 2Q55IMG.zip file, I finally got the phone to reboot and now I've got a working phone again. happy days :laugh:
whowhatwhen said:
I'm having an issue with my u12+ where it just continually reboots to a message saying "The boot loader is unlocked and the software integrity cannot be guaranteed. Any data stored on the device maybe available to attackers, do not store sensitive data on this device" and then it shows the white HTC logo that says Powered by Android down the bottom of the screen, it stays like that for about 5 minutes and then reboots and does the same thing over again.
Holding the power down button does nothing, it will not turn off the phone. Holding power and volume down does nothing either. The phone just does this every 6 minutes and reboots and cycle and that's it.
I've tried putting the file 2Q55IMG_IMAGINE_DUGL_O80_SENSE10GP_hTC_Asia_TW_1.53.709.1_Radio_sdm845-000201b-1807311356_release_531499_signed_2_4.zip (renamed to 2Q55IMG.zip) on the root of a 8gb Fat32 formatted SD card, but I just can't get into recovery or download mode.
I've tried holding down all 3 side buttons for minutes, or just the power button, or combination of buttons, they all do nothing to the phone. (it's as tho they are disabled, but sometimes holding a combination of the 3 will make the phone vibrate a little bit, but in no particular time or order)
When the phone is in either state (locked bootloader message or white HTC logo) my Windows 10 PC sees the phone plugged in as a "USB Input Device", not an Android Phone or Android Device. So using ADB or Fastboot commands do not work to it. I've tried to force the driver to the HTC driver but that does not work.
I also tried using the RUU_IMAGINE_UHL_O80_SENSE10GP_NA_Gen_Unlock_1.30.617.2.exe file, but once again it doesn't detect my phone.
Any help would be kindly appreciated.
Cheers!
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with the phone off, turn it on,when you feel first vibration
quick release power key and keep push volume down.
Smartphone should boot in bootloader mode.
can you get into this mode with this guide?
fabrizio b92 said:
with the phone off, turn it on,when you feel first vibration
quick release power key and keep push volume down.
Smartphone should boot in bootloader mode.
can you get into this mode with this guide?
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Cheer mates, issue sorted. I just updated my comment in my post.
Not sure if I'm game enough again now to try and put LeeDrOiD and Magisk on it.