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Recover Bricked Magic

I have a google ion and plan to load some roms on to it to try out. I am worried about trying things that may go horribly wrong and might leave me with a bricked phone.
My question is, is it always possible to recover a bricked/partially bricked phone? Has anyone heard of a android phone being permanently unusable after screwing around with the software like this?
Thanks in advance.

nirvanaxp said:
I have a google ion and plan to load some roms on to it to try out. I am worried about trying things that may go horribly wrong and might leave me with a bricked phone.
My question is, is it always possible to recover a bricked/partially bricked phone? Has anyone heard of a android phone being permanently unusable after screwing around with the software like this?
Thanks in advance.
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As long as you can get into fastboot you can always recover. When you cant get into fastboot your device is a brick that we cant recover anymore.

bricked
Once it is bricked, is it not technically feasible even for HTC guys to revive the phone?
Or
HTC will deliberately refuse to fix it saying "Warranty void due to rooting/reflashing" ?
I am under the impression that once it is bricked while reflashing, one can go to HTC customer care center and get it reflashed back to factory settings.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

It's pretty hard to brick a smartphone... if you do something wrong (like invalid themes, apps, wrong board firmware) it will just bootloop and you can fix it by flashing your nandroid backup (Make a recovery before starting your flash!).

[email protected] said:
Once it is bricked, is it not technically feasible even for HTC guys to revive the phone?
Or
HTC will deliberately refuse to fix it saying "Warranty void due to rooting/reflashing" ?
I am under the impression that once it is bricked while reflashing, one can go to HTC customer care center and get it reflashed back to factory settings.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Yes, it's possible but I think they have to replace the flash memory chip. Dunno if every technican does that..I work my self as a technican (not for htc thouh)

so SPL data is recorded in special chip? so if you screw SPL only way to restore is by changing "SPL chip"?

thank you. I feel a bit safer about hacking my phone. I guess things are pretty safe if I follow the guides that are out there.

big mistake!! please help!!

i was installed a i9000 rom on my samsung galaxy s2 i9100 (because i didn't read the title)..
i know it's a stupid mistake but- can be a solution to the hard brick that i got??
or i have to go to store to fix it??
please help me because my phone doesn't work at all (not download mode or recovery also..)

If download mode no longers works you will need a JTAG device to restore functionality, which are expensive.
So you will mostlikely have to go to a store.
If the repair guy wants to, he can find out that you flashed a wrong ROM.
Which means he will know your warranty is void and will most likely charge you for the repair.

i understand... oh crap - there is someway i can make them to don't know that i flashed a wrong rom? and i also want to ask you how to flash my store (16gb but its in my phone its not an a memory card).?

I did the same thing when i got my t989. I put a i9000 rom on it and it never turned back on...sorry man i had to get it warrantied out and got a new one. Thank god i did it in 3 hrs of getting the phone so they swapped it out no problem.

I think there's nothing you can do without going to your local repair shop. Good luck and be more careful in the future by reading instructions more than twice

i hard bricked my w8 once..then i act stuopid in front of the retailer and he repaired it for free cause of warranty he changed the mother board..worth a try

tohno said:
i hard bricked my w8 once..then i act stuopid in front of the retailer and he repaired it for free cause of warranty he changed the mother board..worth a try
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right, ill try to act like stupid and i really hope they won't check my phone.
could they see any rom or there is actually no rom inside so they will never find it???

OK guys what your talking about is fraud and is not condoned on XDA. If you brick your device by Modding it that is on you and you should not try to get a warrenty replacement for it.
This is the reason you are advised to understand what you are doing BEFORE. You do it.
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Note radio messed up phone HELP!!

So earlier today i Dl'ed the new radio and its been down here from there.
I was able to get to odin before and i installed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601483
And i now cant use odin. I found from this thread what to do if i could get into odin (also cant get cwm)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
What should i do?

Does your phone work at all? It sounds like you might have bricked it using ODIN incorrectly. Did you leave "repartition" checked? If so, you shouldn't have.
Can you get into download mode at all? Does your PC recognize your phone? If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to go to the "DEV" section and read all of the sticky threads, which you hopefully already did before you tried to do anything with your phone. Asking a bunch of questions about things you haven't taken the time to read about isn't going to help you at all.
Have you tried the "Odin Oneclick" leak"s" that have been released? They include ODIN in the install package.
You claim the Note radio flash derped your phone? It has been known to mess with phones but I haven't known of it bricking any phones. If so, have you tried to flash a different radio? You need to provide as much info as you can about what you did and read all of the threads that pertain to what it is you think you wanted to do. If you provide more acurate info, maybe someone can help (if you didn't brick your phone with ODIN). Good luck.

actually my phones all fixed now i did alot of research and fixed it
Thanks anyways
Correction im trying to get the lock screen/ power off menu solution thats all i need atm

Dwolf16 said:
actually my phones all fixed now i did alot of research and fixed it
Thanks anyways
Correction im trying to get the lock screen/ power off menu solution thats all i need atm
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I'm happy to hear you are back up and running. I think the best thing to do is just stay away from the "Note" radio...its just not worth the risk.

scott14719 said:
I'm happy to hear you are back up and running. I think the best thing to do is just stay away from the "Note" radio...its just not worth the risk.
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Are you sure you didn't mean to say "it's just note worth the risk. " XDDDDDDD
~PsyCl0ne
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA

its really not...im still trying to fix my homescreen and shutdown

I'm learning a hard lesson about the Note radio, too.

i just need to find some one with a full efs folder so i cant replace mine and ill be fine

I've updated my method, try again. If ur having write issues with efs, no guarantee that simply dropping it I'm with fix it. I think this new method will allow it to stick

[Q] For those who have gone through JTAG.

To recap: I was happily using my HOXL on nightly CM10.2 with android 4.3 without any problem, but to ruin my Life my phone ditched me by going dead on connecting it via USB to PC, it showed no sign of life.
To my anxious/curious/furious mood I tried getting the phone out of its shell, but I got my gorilla glass cracked, I got frustrated and gave the phone to a JTAGger friend, He found out not only the glass was broken but the cables were also ripped , I m getting my Display Changed now for some $70 Getting Jtagged for $30,
Now let me take you to the Actual Reason I am posting this,
Got my Phone JTAG repaired but I am on Download Mode which comes right after Jtag.
Now can any body can guide me to the full working carrier unlocked phone?
Thanks everyone for reading and Please Help!!!!!
Please Don't mind my English and don't take any thing offensive. :fingers-crossed:

What do you mean carrier unlocked phone? If you mean operating system, you'll want to run an RUU. Carrier unlocking is entirely different though, you get that through your carrier.
Please post your hboot details.
Sent from my Evita

Avikar said:
To recap: I was happily using my HOXL on nightly CM10.2 with android 4.3 without any problem, but to ruin my Life my phone ditched me by going dead on connecting it via USB to PC, it showed no sign of life.
To my anxious/curious/furious mood I tried getting the phone out of its shell, but I got my gorilla glass cracked, I got frustrated and gave the phone to a JTAGger friend, He found out not only the glass was broken but the cables were also ripped , I m getting my Display Changed now for some $70 Getting Jtagged for $30,
Now let me take you to the Actual Reason I am posting this,
Got my Phone JTAG repaired but I am on Download Mode which comes right after Jtag.
Now can any body can guide me to the full working carrier unlocked phone?
Thanks everyone for reading and Please Help!!!!!
Please Don't mind my English and don't take any thing offensive. :fingers-crossed:
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oK from what I understand you bricked your phone had it jtaged and now you got it in Download mode ready to flash a rom?
I assume you mean bootloader not download mode, unless we are talking about another phone..
Why dont you just flash a recovery on it and mount usb storage and drag a stock or close to stock rom over and boot it up
Once you have it booted up you can usually leave the sim card out of the phone and it will ask you for a code to unlock network.
I paid to have my code sent to me in like 2 mins if that long.
http://www.sieempi.eu/blog/remote-unlock?ref=urspecial
assuming you have no idea what you are doing.... Get a toolkit from the forumn, All in one toolkit very nice and put together so anyone can figure it out. Thanks and props to Hansons toolkits
it will take you through the recovery flash which you have to have.. from there you can flash a rom of your choice then once you get it booted up you can unlock the carrier. First thing is getting a working os or foundation
with your phone off power it on and hold volume down
once your in bootloader just push power button it will take you to another screen that says "fastboot usb"
flash a recovery and put a rom then unlock that bad boy then dont do that again.
I hope that helped som

How to brick Galaxy S6

Out of curiosity, is there way to brick this device to stage that for example warranty service can`t find out that it is self-inflicted?

Surely, flashing a bootloader not intended for the device is the best way to brick it?

i will do in that way :
flash engeniereng bootloader
flash a rom not suitable for your device ( ex. rom for 9200hk )
if still works, flash wrong pit file or modified wrong one )

Why would someone do that anyway???

XxM4tzexX said:
Why would someone do that anyway???
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I can tell you why someone would do that. This is purely hypotethical but here is one reason. Let´s say that you have rooted your device and lost your warranty. After that your camera starts to make buzzing noise and focusing don´t work. ie. this case: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/galaxy-s6-camera-randomly-makes-loud-t3123724
Now you want to get that camera fixed for warranty, but they don´t accept it because Knox is tripped. But now if whole phone is bricked and be sent to warranty service, they have no other choice but flash stock firmware and untrip Knox and device will gain full warranty again. Or that is my theory anyway. I mean sometimes these devices just stop working maybe due faulty motherboard or something similar. Please remember this is totally hypotethical...

PeK_m said:
I can tell you why someone would do that. This is purely hypotethical but here is one reason. Let´s say that you have rooted your device and lost your warranty. After that your camera starts to make buzzing noise and focusing don´t work. ie. this case: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/galaxy-s6-camera-randomly-makes-loud-t3123724
Now you want to get that camera fixed for warranty, but they don´t accept it because Knox is tripped. But now if whole phone is bricked and be sent to warranty service, they have no other choice but flash stock firmware and untrip Knox and device will gain full warranty again. Or that is my theory anyway. I mean sometimes these devices just stop working maybe due faulty motherboard or something similar. Please remember this is totally hypotethical...
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Dark ideas! I like it!

I bricked my G920F trying to get back to stock-rom. Nothing would work, Odin failed time after time (cm.bin). I could flash TWRP and used ADB to get back to stock-recovery, connected to smart-switch and performed emergency restore. Failed again.
I took it to a Samsung servicepoint (talking about Holland) and they immediatly found the custom flag. Phone wil be send over to Samsung now and, according to the lady at the servicepoint, Samsung does not even check. They just reflash it and send it back under full waranty. All I can do now is hoping she is right....
Still figuring out why everybody but me can restore a bricked phone through ODIN.