Can you guys help me, I bricked my Atrix 2 but I am not sure which state of brick it is in. When I connect the device to its wall charger it boots up into the Motorola "M" Dual Core Screen and never moves from that spot. And when I plug the phone into the computer port it only shows a white light and I am unable to boot it up. Also when I go into fast boot it gives me the message saying "Low Battery" "Connect Cable and etc"
Is there any way to charge my bricked phone or unbrick it. The version is 2.3.6
PLEASE HELP ME UNBRICK IT.
Kristofah said:
Can you guys help me, I bricked my Atrix 2 but I am not sure which state of brick it is in. When I connect the device to its wall charger it boots up into the Motorola "M" Dual Core Screen and never moves from that spot. And when I plug the phone into the computer port it only shows a white light and I am unable to boot it up. Also when I go into fast boot it gives me the message saying "Low Battery" "Connect Cable and etc"
Is there any way to charge my bricked phone or unbrick it. The version is 2.3.6
PLEASE HELP ME UNBRICK IT.
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You have a soft brick..dont worry its fixable..first you need to charge your battery using a wall charger..then flash the appropriate fxz for your phone..all will be good then
Get a Moto factory cable or external battery charger. Don't make the cable unless you know what you're doing, I can't recommend the "Mcguyver method" either, just order one online, be about $3 total, and be patient, your phone will be phone don't screw it up now like I did
Are there any applications online that would unbrick rather than buy the factory cable?
And thank you for the responses.
Kristofah said:
Are there any applications online that would unbrick rather than buy the factory cable?
And thank you for the responses.
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Once you get the battery charged you can use RSD lite or an FXZ script. Either way you need to purchase something, but like I said, it's $3, the biggest thing is waiting the 2-3 weeks. I can't recommend slapping 5 volts over the terminals of a lithium ion battery, it just really doesn't sound like a good idea to me, but if you want to you can do that. You need to power your phone, either by charging the battery, using the "Mcguyver method", using a Motorola factory cable, once you have power to the phone, you can flash a firmware and have a working phone. I hardbricked my phone because I screwed up making my own Moto factory cable, I can only hope the place I bought it from will replace it.
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Once you get the battery charged you can use RSD lite or an FXZ script. Either way you need to purchase something, but like I said, it's $3, the biggest thing is waiting the 2-3 weeks. I can't recommend slapping 5 volts over the terminals of a lithium ion battery, it just really doesn't sound like a good idea to me, but if you want to you can do that. You need to power your phone, either by charging the battery, using the "Mcguyver method", using a Motorola factory cable, once you have power to the phone, you can flash a firmware and have a working phone. I hardbricked my phone because I screwed up making my own Moto factory cable, I can only hope the place I bought it from will replace it.
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I have used The McGyver Method, but since my situation wouldn't allow for an FXZ either with RSDLite or by running a script (ICS leak #2 to GB attempt), I opted to fry the motherboard by hooking it up to my car battery - which I do not recommend - and sent back to Motorola for a warranty replacement. As far as the McGyver Method, I'm not certain that it actually charges the phone, and there's really no way to tell, seeing as how this is only useful if in a soft brick state (AP Fastboot/Low Power Cannot Charge). But, it is definitely worth a try, as long as you're careful. Others have found success with this method, and as long as you're not a complete caveman, you shouldn't have anything to worry about as far as "exploding your battery" or whatever. Like I said, since my situation was different than most, no .xml or FXZ or script would flash, so I had to give the phone a death sentence. As a last resort, but a noted working one, you should have the ability to flash this way without any charge to your battery...
Thanks For The Help, I will try that method, then buy the factory cable as my last resort.
THANKS.
Kristofah said:
Thanks For The Help, I will try that method, then buy the factory cable as my last resort.
THANKS.
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Our "thanks buttons" don't run any risk of bricking you either!
Are there any other ways other than the mcgyver method to charge a soft or hard bricked phone?
Kristofah said:
Are there any other ways other than the mcgyver method to charge a soft or hard bricked phone?
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If you're hard bricked, you're completely out of luck. Other than McGyver for a soft bricked phone, can buy a new battery or an external battery charger...
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Apex_Strider said:
I have used The McGyver Method, but since my situation wouldn't allow for an FXZ either with RSDLite or by running a script (ICS leak #2 to GB attempt), I opted to fry the motherboard by hooking it up to my car battery - which I do not recommend - and sent back to Motorola for a warranty replacement. As far as the McGyver Method, I'm not certain that it actually charges the phone, and there's really no way to tell, seeing as how this is only useful if in a soft brick state (AP Fastboot/Low Power Cannot Charge). But, it is definitely worth a try, as long as you're careful. Others have found success with this method, and as long as you're not a complete caveman, you shouldn't have anything to worry about as far as "exploding your battery" or whatever. Like I said, since my situation was different than most, no .xml or FXZ or script would flash, so I had to give the phone a death sentence. As a last resort, but a noted working one, you should have the ability to flash this way without any charge to your battery...
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Car battery is a good idea, I sent my Atrix 2 in for repairs after I possibly fried the micro usb port or something on the motherboard. Should have done this and said it just died, no way of proving otherwise, very clever.
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Hey guys, I have a softbricked Atrix2, I tried making a factory cable the other night, wired it correctly as far as I know, it turned on straight away without a battery into fastboot, but wouldn't recognize that a usb cable was plugged in (So power, but no data). And when I plugged in a normal usb cable with the battery in the phone still wouldn't recognize that a usb cable was plugged in. I am currently charging my battery right now, I wasn't having this problem before and am starting to think this phone is cursed by the devil himself . I'll be really disappointed if I charge this battery up and another problem arises, been waiting weeks for this charger. The phone was recognizing usb data cables without issue, tho of course I couldn't do anything because of the low battery, and suddenly it just stopped. Any ideas? Just don't want to spend all day trying to work this out because I've had a softbricked phone for weeks and only got to use it for all of about an hour .
More info: When I plug a normal USB in without a battery the white LED lights up and stays lit. Everything is pointing to power but no data... What would cause that and is there a fix
More more info: Battery OK
OK to program
Connect USB
Data Cable
Shows in device manager as "Unknown device", trying to force install of the "Mot single ADB interface" drivers just gives the error "The device cannot start (Code10), wont show up in ADB or RSD, and phone WILL NOT change status to USB plugged in. Time to think up a legit reason why my phone would say "Flash failure" and get a replacement?
A little more info maybe
What were you on before soft brick stock 2.3.6,2.3.5 or ICS???
How exactly did you soft brick it??
Have you tried getting the phone to start in the normal mode?(by pressing power+vol up+vol down and choosing boot normally???)
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deveshmanish said:
A little more info maybe
What were you on before soft brick stock 2.3.6,2.3.5 or ICS???
How exactly did you soft brick it??
Have you tried getting the phone to start in the normal mode?(by pressing power+vol up+vol down and choosing boot normally???)
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Went from 2.3.6 to stock 2.3.5 to OTA 2.3.6 to OTA leak to SCV7, phone kept crashing, tried to fxz back to 2.3.5 stock, said completely successfully but just bootlooped so I went to try again but the battery was low, so that's how I softbricked. And me being the impatient person I am I tried to make a moto factory cable with 2 non standard cables (Micro usb end from a mini to micro converter and the other end from something else), I'm sure I wired it correctly but I guess not, it booted into fastboot without a battery, but said connect usb cable, so I tried to plug in a normal usb cable (tried different ones) and it said the same thing. I shorted something out, the damage might just be on the micro usb PCB connector or it might be something worse. Yes I tried normal mode, no go, recovery works. So basically, my phone is now hardbricked because I'm impatient and screwed something up along the way. Now I have a 12 month warranty on the phone, can someone help me come up with a believable story that'll get me a new phone? Keeping in mind the phone boots into fastboot with (flash failure)
Trust me. The folks on the line at AT&T DON'T CARE.
Just BS your way through it. IE: I went to bed, plugged my phone in, woke up and the battery was really hot. Then the phone shut off and won't boot. Just play dumb.
All else fails. Hook that motherboard up to a car battery.
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Fall of Enosis said:
Trust me. The folks on the line at AT&T DON'T CARE.
Just BS your way through it. IE: I went to bed, plugged my phone in, woke up and the battery was really hot. Then the phone shut off and won't boot. Just play dumb.
All else fails. Hook that motherboard up to a car battery.
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I bought it from a 3rd party seller (Mobicity.com.au). I think I might just go with "The phone kept crashing every 4-5 minutes, I tried to do the system update to 2.3.6 and the phone crashed halfway through, tried to turn it on again and it showed the Moto logo and something about a fastboot". Wish me luck guys .
Okay shipped it off, wish me luck guys, I'll keep you updated.
"Technicians needed to know which ROM used to update your handset?"
Not liking my chances with this at all. I got my dad to give them a call and act dumb, should be convincing because he honestly doesn't know what he's talking about. The phone says flash failed and he's denying ever flashing anything, I don't think a failed OTA update would give that error message so I don't think they're going to replace it..... .
EDIT: Dad called the technician and the tech said he's gonna fix it and that the motherboard was fried, looking good, phew!.
Update:
Your phone has been deemed unrepairable and as a result will be replaced by your place of purchase. Please contact your place of purchase and quote xxxxxxxx to arrange a replacement handset to be dispatched to you.
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Wooo .
I have had my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for around 3.5 weeks. First of all I must express how much i adored the tablet, and how my computer , tv and games consoles became obsolete. However recently, I looked into rooting the device, I eventually did after 1 week of speculating possible scenarios in my head. So i rooted it using the Clockwork Mod method, again it worked fine for a couple of days, until i was playing a game, when the battery ran dead flat. Normally this would of been ok, however when i plugged it into the official samsung ac adapter plug, it recognized it as charging, but in 12 hours it hadn't risen by 1%. I was furious, I had saved up alot of money, for a long time - for it to brake. I then tried charging via usb connection , still no luck.
I tried searching online for similar cases where they couldn't get it to charge. I didn't find any for the N8010, but for other devices. They reccomended factory resetting , to see if that would help. So.. I did that ( after finding that after 2 days it goes up by 1 %) still no luck, so my question to you is:
' Have any of you experienced similar cases with your note, and what do you suggest?'
Admittedly, I am new to this - so somewhere along the line, I had probably failed which caused this, but still any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try Odin to stock. If that doesn't work then you probably have to get it fixed
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Plug it into a usb port of your computer. This will charge though slower than your wall charger. I suggest this in case there's something wrong with the wall charger. If it charges then you know its not the tablet...
I was wondering if you had any luck with this yet? i remember back when i owned a droid x i flashed a ROM that prevented charging. If you weren't lucky enough to have a spare battery around some people ended up splitting the usb cable and connecting it straight to the battery to do a force charge. If you are up against a wall and are desperate to get it charged you can check out this guide to opening it up http://cnettv.cnet.com/cracking-open-samsung-galaxy-note-10-1/9742-1_53-50130350.html the reason i say that is because it sounds like you need to ODIN back to completely stock and then start over. You don't want to run ODIN unless you have a good charge though. I have no idea if this is good advice or not... the thought just crossed my mind when i read your situation. Take my advice for what it's worth (not much) and do so at your own risk as i accept no responsibility if you end up with a $500 paperweight.
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Try Odin to stock. If that doesn't work then you probably have to get it fixed
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I really would like to try this, but for that i need to boot into download mode, to boot into download mode i need battery .. A problem fix that needs the fix before you fixed it ..
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Plug it into a usb port of your computer. This will charge though slower than your wall charger. I suggest this in case there's something wrong with the wall charger. If it charges then you know its not the tablet...
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Damn! I can get it to the same 1 % however quickly, but again I cannot charge through USB or AC adapter, both recognize as charging..
Does anyone know of a way to charge another way?
P.S. I managed to get a charge once.. after not being able to . The outcome was that it was 17% and by the time I looked at the guide again it was out of battery. I found if i completly discharge the battery, then leave it a couple of days, then charge.. it miraculously works! But I don't think that is normal.I will try that again in a last ditch chance , then i will reflash stock firmware.
I think its more of an issue with Rom which is doing that you should try reverting back to stock rom one question if you have CWM why didnt you take nanodroid backup if you would have done that it would have saved you loads of trouble.
I am not an expert of Samsung devices, but isnt there a method like we have in LG using NVFlash or Smartflash which does not require battery.
Also may be the RIL has spooked your charging volts
Mate, that's not normal. If you get it to charge, wait until its ay least 50% charged before trying to flash, though it sounds like things aren't working properly there anyway... If you get it back to stock and there's still a problem definately return it as it sounds like battery could be stuffed. Don't forget, if you haven't already, to run triangle away as you need to reset flash counter before loosing root.... Especially if you're returning under warranty....
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Mate, that's not normal. If you get it to charge, wait until its ay least 50% charged before trying to flash, though it sounds like things aren't working properly there anyway... If you get it back to stock and there's still a problem definately return it as it sounds like battery could be stuffed. Don't forget, if you haven't already, to run triangle away as you need to reset flash counter before loosing root.... Especially if you're returning under warranty....
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I have run triangle away, that 'should' be fine. just got to try to get it to charge, then flash the stock.. ( i get that from sammobile right? N8010 latest ota update which is arounf 1 gb?)
As the title says.
Thinking of getting this device on the cheap. I have a Moto factory cable that i've used to flash stock firmware onto a couple different devices.
Would that same cable work on this device to get it into fastboot?
Are there any cases of completely hard bricked devices?
Also, if any of you experts know some questions i might want to ask the guy, I'm all ears! Thanks!
Markyzz said:
As the title says.
Thinking of getting this device on the cheap. I have a Moto factory cable that i've used to flash stock firmware onto a couple different devices.
Would that same cable work on this device to get it into fastboot?
Are there any cases of complete hard bricked devices?
Also, if any of you experts know some questions i might want to ask the guy, I'm all ears! Thanks!
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You can use the moto factory cable on the xoom but that just gives it power to fastboot.
You can have a xoom be hard bricked. If you plug it in and it shows up as a APX device it is hard bricked. (i own one that's sits in the drawer for spare parts for it's replacement) The charge light will still come on.
What type of xoom is it a (wifi 3g/4g family edition)
You should ask what caused it to brick?
was he rooted?
If you buy it post here and I can give a one click restore for it. AI have it for most versions of the xoom.
Be Sure...
Before you buy it I would recommend getting as much information as possible from the seller as this device may be beyond repair. If the device can still be recognized in fast boot then you should be fine.
if it is a 3g/4g xoom you might want to get the esn/meid number and check with verizon if it is clean.
If the bootloader is damaged it is of no use other than spare parts. You must at the very least be able to get to fast boot. If it is not recognised when plugged into the USB there is nothing to be done without serious hardware hacking.
I have one just like that in a box. It is rare, but it happens. It will not even flicker when powered up - nothing.
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If the bootloader is damaged it is of no use other than spare parts. You must at the very least be able to get to fast boot. If it is not recognised when plugged into the USB there is nothing to be done without serious hardware hacking.
I have one just like that in a box. It is rare, but it happens. It will not even flicker when powered up - nothing.
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This morning while loading a webpage (20% of battery life left) my MZ601 just froze, didn't respond to any screen or button presses, slowly went to sleep and has resisted all attempts to start since then. Even hooked up to the charger for the last hour, it still doesn't respond no matter what buttons I press, completely blank, no lights, nada...
I'm guessing it's a dead parrot, has anyone else had a similar Xoom death?
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Hey, I had cyangonenmod 10.1 by the whisp for quite a time now. I decided to try swapper and my phone was stuck in bootloop (power on shows samsung logo then off, trying to go download mode shows little light and off, recovery didn't work either, connecting USB shows the same light and off (and odin recognized then 2 seconds after it disconnected), connecting wall charge with the same little ligth and off).
I didn't try adb(maybe if it was possible I could run shell swapoff or something) but now my battery seems to be drained, none of the mentioned above shows any respone.
I have a nandroid backup, but without recovery mode is no use. Is there a way to do something without battery? or even if I get a battery is there something to do?
I had soft brick motorolla defy with battery drained out last week and forums said try Macgyver method (cut any usb cable and connect the red cable to the + where you put the battery) and it worked, should I try it here?
Thanks
mumsy said:
Hey, I had cyangonenmod 10.1 by the whisp for quite a time now. I decided to try swapper and my phone was stuck in bootloop (power on shows samsung logo then off, trying to go download mode shows little light and off, recovery didn't work either, connecting USB shows the same light and off (and odin recognized then 2 seconds after it disconnected), connecting wall charge with the same little ligth and off).
I didn't try adb(maybe if it was possible I could run shell swapoff or something) but now my battery seems to be drained, none of the mentioned above shows any respone.
I have a nandroid backup, but without recovery mode is no use. Is there a way to do something without battery? or even if I get a battery is there something to do?
I had soft brick motorolla defy with battery drained out last week and forums said try Macgyver method (cut any usb cable and connect the red cable to the + where you put the battery) and it worked, should I try it here?
Thanks
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we have some posts here talking about swapper, it hard bricks the phone
you cant use any method, usb jig or better go to a service
so I found this http://linux-sunxi.org/Boot_Android_from_SdCard,
if someone could help me with the needed files i'd be grateful
can I use a nandroid backup to boot from sdcard?
mumsy said:
so I found this http://linux-sunxi.org/Boot_Android_from_SdCard,
if someone could help me with the needed files i'd be grateful
can I use a nandroid backup to boot from sdcard?
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7227A doesn't support boot-from-SD.
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7227A doesn't support boot-from-SD.
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And then my hopes went down the drain .
There's no reason for jtag not to work right? but it's very costly! I don't understand why.. with this riff box you just plug it to the motherboard and push a button.
mumsy said:
And then my hopes went down the drain .
There's no reason for jtag not to work right? but it's very costly! I don't understand why.. with this riff box you just plug it to the motherboard and push a button.
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every usb jig is special in his way to work with certain devices
i strongly recommend you to replace the motherboard, its the best and the most accurate way of repairng, or go to a service maybe they have jtag
ShadowsDie said:
every usb jig is special in his way to work with certain devices
i strongly recommend you to replace the motherboard, its the best and the most accurate way of repairng, or go to a service maybe they have jtag
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No, I tried a jig it didn't work, I was asking if jtag has a chance of not working?
Replacing the motherboard is overkill, it's just a galaxy ace plus, probably the motherboard's worth almost like a new phone
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No, I tried a jig it didn't work, I was asking if jtag has a chance of not working?
Replacing the motherboard is overkill, it's just a galaxy ace plus, probably the motherboard's worth almost like a new phone
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yes..there are chances to a jtag to not work but it worth a try
basically if the problem is the broken emmc yes it will work like would do boot-from-sdcard
but if the bootloader is totally broken i guess no
Hey guys! (sorry for my bad english)
I have a serius problem with my Moto G xt1032, is a "medium" brick, when i was flashing, it ran very quick out of the safe battery levels, now i can't boot normally or charge the phone because a bootloader error, in fastboot, it says charging but it really doesn't, so, i have always low battery (when it runs out, i can charge it a little with the wall charger and it automatically boots, so i cant charge past 5%). So, the question is, theres any way to charge it, so i can flash any working rom or ota or whatever? Thanks!
I never saw this problem before. There are 3 possibilities which I guess:
- bootloader issue: wipe all cache and flash bootloader
- Battery calibration: charge battery over 8 hours, to see if the battery is charged.
- Hardware problem
Cross fingers and good luck.
Oh boy, im in a horrible situation,, the problem is the bricked software makes the hardware look broken. I cannot charge because all the sofware is blowed up, and i can't flash because i have low battery., In the first droid razr, i was stucked in a similar situation, but, if you remove the kevlar back cover, you could directly connect phase and neutral to the battery and charge it in a harware way, the Moto G has a different system and is hidden, you need to remove all.
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Oh boy, im in a horrible situation,, the problem is the bricked software makes the hardware look broken. I cannot charge because all the sofware is blowed up, and i can't flash because i have low battery., In the first droid razr, i was stucked in a similar situation, but, if you remove the kevlar back cover, you could directly connect phase and neutral to the battery and charge it in a harware way, the Moto G has a different system and is hidden, you need to remove all.
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If fastboot is working you can still recover your device. Go into fastboot and start charging the device. Use a good quality wall charger and the original motorola micro usb cable and charge it for about 5 hours. Make sure you have enough amps going into the device. As soon as flashing works, flash a custom recovery such as twrp and boot into it. Then use the adb sideload feature to sideload cyanogenmod or stock rom.
I will try! I have two chargers, one similar to the motorola one (someone stealed mine in a party in my own house....) and one very powerfull from an asus tablet, i hope it works.
Gazer213 said:
I will try! I have two chargers, one similar to the motorola one (someone stealed mine in a party in my own house....) and one very powerfull from an asus tablet, i hope it works.
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Any luck?
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Any luck?
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Sorry for the looooooooooooooo(infinite)ooooong wait, i am in the finals of the last highschool year, today i build a factory cable, the classic for the old motorola droids, and guess what? It worked!
Gazer213 said:
Sorry for the looooooooooooooo(infinite)ooooong wait, i am in the finals of the last highschool year, today i build a factory cable, the classic for the old motorola droids, and guess what? It worked!
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Always make sure you have above 75% charge before you start flashing. Glad to help!