Hi,
My phone doesn't turn on at all and it is hardbricked. I was just wondering if there is any way to get back the data in which I have saved on the phone by any chance? Such as my pictures and so fort.
Also, how can I go about fixing a hardbricked phone by myself. I don't want to pay to send the phone in to anyone. I've looked around, but it seems most of the solutions on google are to fix softbricked phones.
Im using the Galaxy SII I727 btw.
pacmanandre said:
Hi,
My phone doesn't turn on at all and it is hardbricked. I was just wondering if there is any way to get back the data in which I have saved on the phone by any chance? Such as my pictures and so fort.
Also, how can I go about fixing a hardbricked phone by myself. I don't want to pay to send the phone in to anyone. I've looked around, but it seems most of the solutions on google are to fix softbricked phones.
Im using the Galaxy SII I727 btw.
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Maybe you should ask this question in your own forum section?
This isn't the 727 section it's the 777 section
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Moved to to correct forum.
@OP You might try something like Recuva but not sure that will work for you since you probably are not getting power to the device at all. Or you could build your own JTAG box but I would think that it would be cheaper to send it out than build a box yourself.
How do you know your phone's bricked? There are plenty of reasons that it wouldn't turn on, most notably a dead battery.
If you are hard-bricked, then no. Your app data is gone, though you can always pull your external SD out and get that data.
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There's a lot of threads on replacing rooted droid phones. But i couldnt find anything on Samsung T-mobile phones.
i bricked the rooted sidekick 4G yesterday (a hard brick, when i boot the phone, it doesnt turn on, only a little back light comes up, no samsung logo; when i release the power, screen goes back to dark). And today i asked for a replacement and it will arrive in a week.
When i send back the brick phone, they told me to take out battery, battery door and sd card. Then they will check what happened to it when they get the front piece of the phone
So my question is are the tech people able to find out my phone was rooted and void the warranty. Or they will just replace the phone since they cant really turn on the phone to check anything.
Thanks in advance guys!
they will just pop in a test battery n see if its hardbricked
For your sake, you probably don't want to go flashing your device again. But, they probably aren't going to specifically know the device was rooted. You erased everything when you flashed the device..
I still doubt you really bricked it...
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xtrem88 said:
they will just pop in a test battery n see if its hardbricked
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what if it is hard bricked? does that included in the warranty, or they will charge me extra money?
@orange: the problem is, it wasnt really bricked at the beginning, i was still able to get into download mode, so i tried to restore it with odin.
But idk what happened during the restore, the phone just wont boot after that, nor get into download mode/recovery mode. So im pretty sure its hard bricked =[
sheolito said:
what if it is hard bricked? does that included in the warranty, or they will charge me extra money?
@orange: the problem is, it wasnt really bricked at the beginning, i was still able to get into download mode, so i tried to restore it with odin.
But idk what happened during the restore, the phone just wont boot after that, nor get into download mode/recovery mode. So im pretty sure its hard bricked =[
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Samsung phones are damn near impossible to hard brick thanks to Odin, but even so if you turn it in they won't know anything if they can't even boot the phone up, they will through the battery in, see it doesn't boot, and send you a new one. They don't have the same tools we have
xmeatizmurderx said:
Samsung phones are damn near impossible to hard brick thanks to Odin, but even so if you turn it in they won't know anything if they can't even boot the phone up, they will through the battery in, see it doesn't boot, and send you a new one. They don't have the same tools we have
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thx for the answer =]
ye, they will send me the replacement first and ill send back the bricked one. We'll see what happens after they check the phone =]
OP I have the exact same issue, Did they replace the handset no problem? No Out Of Warranty fee?
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post - just wanted to share my unpleasant experience.
I've bricked my phone in a peculiar way - it appears to be a hard brick, non-responsive to any buttons. Plugging in to the computer gets me the dreaded qhusb_dload QPST download mode. Not a good sign.
It wasn't due to faulty ROM flashing, either. I made a bad edit to /system/etc/vold.fstab fiddling with the way the internal and external SD cards get mounted - mmc1 instead of mmc2. After one reboot, I had some sd card corrupted errors. Proceeding to format the card may have been my fatal error. By the second reboot, I was bricked. D'oh. I imagine I had accidentally mounted a partition of the internal emmc that is critical to normal operations, then tried to wipe it.
From what I've read, a USB jig won't do much good, but it's worth a try.
Anyone messing around with their /system folder, be warned.
That's sux, but on a good note, $50 and a little waiting will get your phone back, or you could just warranty that sucker ;-) give more refurb units to some other xda members lol
I sense another refurb sale on ATT.com. Sorry to hear about that, sounds bad. No guts no glory right?
I purchased this as a refurb, too. The cycle continues...
Not sure how the whole exchange process will work in this case. I mean, I can exchange for a different phone, or a new Skyrocket and pay the difference, but I really had my heart set on a cheapo skyrocket. Perhaps if I take this up with Samsung instead?
Ur 90 warranty is over already? That sux then. I personally would pay $50 and get it de-bricked, its the cheapest/best option.
I didn't expect much in the way of warranties because I purchased this refurbished. With Samsung customer service I didn't have much luck. However, I just got off the phone with AT&T, and they're overnighting me a replacement, which is cool. They have a 30 day policy on any web store items, so I'm covered. Anyways, lesson learned
check this thread, please: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
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check this thread, please: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522351
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Are you in thw process of bringing that to the skyrocket?
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Are you in thw process of bringing that to the skyrocket?
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we need all the help we can get. just a bunch of curious noobs, ya know
the main discovery we did with sensation was to make the emmc visible to any pc it's connected to, then overwriting whatever was messed up (like the hboot) with a stock version of that file.
in theory, you should be able to do this to any phone running on a qualcomm chipset once it's in the qhsusb_dload mode. still lots to test, but anyone is welcome to participate, of course!
Do you have a skyrocket that your testing on?
Obviously you know its much different then hboot
On htc.
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Do you have a skyrocket that your testing on?
Obviously you know its much different then hboot
On htc.
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nope, just sensation. they both run on a qualcomm chipset though, so i'm just speculating here.
the bricks we're "saving" right now are for people that executed s-on without fully reading the instruction, thereby leaving them in qhsusb_dload mode. your cases might be specific to a different area, but the principal is still the same:
find what is messed up and replace it with the correct file via open emmc
Big progress made for APQ8060 and MSM86xx processors. Sensation hard brick solution coming very soon and SkyRocket/T-Mobile Galaxy S II solutions already solved...
What's this I smell? Possible de-brick
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I also experience this problem on my xperia L
I messed up with vold.fstab and now my phone can't enter flashmode or it doesn't turn on also
amnher said:
I also experience this problem on my xperia L
I messed up with vold.fstab and now my phone can't enter flashmode or it doesn't turn on also
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i have the same problem xperia miro
any updates ?
Hello,
I'm brand new to the forums, been reading up on my phone and things to do with it. I've just been running stock everything, unrooted and using GO overlays which I really like. I was thinking of rooting my phone and let me friend play around with it... BIG MISTAKE. My phone won't turn on, boot, power up or anything... Have they bricked my phone and is there ANYTHING at all that I can do to recover it? I was using Kies and have my phone backed up and everything... but assuming it won't even turn on... Does anyone have any advice on some options?
Galaxy SII SkyRocket I727
Rogers - Canada
-Pixie
If it wont turn on it sounds like a hardbrick, what did your friend flash? my guess he probably flashed a SGS II rom. You will have to repair it using jtag for 50$.
If you still got warranty you could try using it.
Going Crazy!
Holding down the volume key doesn't work, I can't download emulators to get it up with the phone unable to function or device drivers be updated or detected at all... I've read and read and read and NOTHING is working... I can see if I can create a jig, I think the parts are all around here somewhere... But is that the ONLY option? If it's hard bricked and they've completely messed it up, does anyone know of ANY potentials whatsoever of how to rebuild this thing back to normal?? Please help, I'm going to ASDLKDJLSKDJ someone up... !!! In the meantime I need to see if I can save this thing!
As I said for hardbrick you'll have to find a jtag repair service nearby and send your phone nad pay 50$.
kishke said:
If it wont turn on it sounds like a hardbrick, what did your friend flash? my guess he probably flashed a SGS II rom. You will have to repair it using jtag for 50$.
If you still got warranty you could try using it.
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I'm pretty sure I'm under warranty... Pretty sure they're going to be extremely peeved when they find out it's hardbricked from god knows what...
It took a while but I finally found the ordering site for jtag... Going to try that route I s'pose, thank you. Good thing I have an old crap phone as a back-up in the meantime... They don't require the SIM do they? I don't really trust sending that off...
Pixielated said:
I'm pretty sure I'm under warranty... Pretty sure they're going to be extremely peeved when they find out it's hardbricked from god knows what...
It took a while but I finally found the ordering site for jtag... Going to try that route I s'pose, thank you. Good thing I have an old crap phone as a back-up in the meantime... They don't require the SIM do they? I don't really trust sending that off...
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No sim required. When you pull the battery out and put it back in and hold power do you even get a Samsung logo flash on the screen?
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Pixielated said:
I'm pretty sure I'm under warranty... Pretty sure they're going to be extremely peeved when they find out it's hardbricked from god knows what...
It took a while but I finally found the ordering site for jtag... Going to try that route I s'pose, thank you. Good thing I have an old crap phone as a back-up in the meantime... They don't require the SIM do they? I don't really trust sending that off...
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go the warranty way. you got nothing to loose
I recently bought a Samsung Blaze from my friend who upgraded to an Iphone 5 for $50.
I really enjoyed the phone, but being the autist I am I couldn't handle the bloaty pink addons that tmobile had provided. In addition I had numerous prompts about how my phone couldn't complete wireless calling due to my dated prepaid sim card.
I decided to use keyes to upgrade to ICS, which provided no new differences.
I then decided to go to my local library to root my phone on a windows machine.
During my first attempt I was rushed, and ended up soft bricking my phone.
My second attempt was sucessfull in rooting and installing the clockwork mod.
I tried downloading liquid smooth and installing it, like a moron ( i assumed all roms would work with any device considering that I really couldn't find a specific set of roms for the device). I ended up hard bricking it.
Now, what do I do?
Can I go to tmobile and play dumb, despite the fact that I do not have a contract with them and just a prepaid sim? Would they offer a replacement even without a receipt (its got TMOBILE plastered all over the front in that respect).
or
Should I just play dumb with Samsung? Say that my power went out when installing ICS on kies and my phone wont turn on? Will they send me a refurbished one?
or should I just sent it here mobiletech videos .mybigc om merce.co m/s amsung-gala xy-blaze-4g-jt ag-bric k-repa ir/
It might be nice to have it unlocked and rooted, and I guess I could have them install a rom I want in that event.
Any insights are much appreciated.
I've hard-bricked my Blaze once. All I did was send it back(not in store) and get a new replacement one.. As some people suggested, have you tried getting in download mode? ROMs as you've learned don't work with any device. That's why we have a separate forum for our device . Which LiquidSmooth did you use? In the Dev forum(for the Blaze) we have a LiquidSmooth ROM..
Neither T-Mobile nor Samsung are obligated to replace the phone for a number of reasons, but you could give calling them a try if all else fails. Samsung might be willing to replace it if it has been less than a year since it was purchased, but my experience with them is that they wont honor a warranty without a receipt if you're not the original owner.
First try getting the phone into download mode and using ODIN to reflash the stock rom tar, following the directions of course: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591601
You really can't hard brick this phone... I've even wiped all partitions abd got it back..
Get it to download mode and you are good
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chjema said:
You really can't hard brick this phone... I've even wiped all partitions abd got it back..
Get it to download mode and you are good
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Its very difficult to hard brick that's for sure.
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im_awesome_right? said:
I've hard-bricked my Blaze once. All I did was send it back(not in store) and get a new replacement one.. As some people suggested, have you tried getting in download mode? ROMs as you've learned don't work with any device. That's why we have a separate forum for our device . Which LiquidSmooth did you use? In the Dev forum(for the Blaze) we have a LiquidSmooth ROM..
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To specify, it is not reacting to any button presses at all. The soft brick that I previously did just made it freeze at the tmobile spash screen, which I fixed by returning to stock.
I cannot currently turn on the phone, nor get it to download mode. I will not indicate if it is charging, and plugging it into the computer brings up "improppertly removed media" prompts on my computer screen.
I only have osx and linux, so I kind of rushed when the library was closing and downloaded a stable version of liquid smooth, turned on usb storage on my phone, then launched the zip file from clockwork rom manager, just as some random web page told me to.
When you said you returned it back, did you mean tmobile or samsung? Did they ask for receipt or for your sim card to still be in the device; or did they just take it and give you a new one because it was clearly marked as a tmobile device?
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To specify, it is not reacting to any button presses at all. The soft brick that I previously did just made it freeze at the tmobile spash screen, which I fixed by returning to stock.
I cannot currently turn on the phone, nor get it to download mode. I will not indicate if it is charging, and plugging it into the computer brings up "improppertly removed media" prompts on my computer screen.
I only have osx and linux, so I kind of rushed when the library was closing and downloaded a stable version of liquid smooth, turned on usb storage on my phone, then launched the zip file from clockwork rom manager, just as some random web page told me to.
When you said you returned it back, did you mean tmobile or samsung? Did they ask for receipt or for your sim card to still be in the device; or did they just take it and give you a new one because it was clearly marked as a tmobile device?
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Well I had a warranty. I talked to the T-Mobile guy over the phone and they said they would send me one.. Just call them. But make sure you don't say anything about trying to get a custom ROM lol.
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My rooted phone recently started crashing, then decided to stop turning on altogether, no download mode or anything. Probably a SDS residual memory issue.
1. Anyone have experience returning this to Verizon? Do they even care?
2. Will they even be able to know you rooted if it can't turn on?
Help much appreciated!
JaceB said:
My rooted phone recently started crashing, then decided to stop turning on altogether, no download mode or anything. Probably a SDS residual memory issue.
1. Anyone have experience returning this to Verizon? Do they even care?
2. Will they even be able to know you rooted if it can't turn on?
Help much appreciated!
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If won't boot they have no way to check it. They have to reflash it (JTag) which wipes any trace. They send to Texas to refurbish and they don't even look.
Are you sure your battery is OK? It's really a rare thing for a phone to completely go through a sds issue like that.
Plug it in to your computer, and see if it mounts it as a qusb_dload drive to see if you're hard brick. Also, plug it in without a battery and see if the red light comes on.
I'm assuming Verizon would be able to tell you were rooted if your phone is bricked like that. Either way it's committing insurance fraud for turning that in and claiming it wasn't your fault. They would likely look for any reason to charge you $500 for a new device.
If it's the battery it's an easy fix, if you're hard bricked you still have options to fix it, if it's a hardware problem Samsung will fix it despite it being rooted. No need to go through Verizon.
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JaceB said:
My rooted phone recently started crashing, then decided to stop turning on altogether, no download mode or anything. Probably a SDS residual memory issue.
1. Anyone have experience returning this to Verizon? Do they even care?
2. Will they even be able to know you rooted if it can't turn on?
Help much appreciated!
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I had the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I used a sd card and img file to debrick the phone.
BadUsername said:
Are you sure your battery is OK? It's really a rare thing for a phone to completely go through a sds issue like that.
Plug it in to your computer, and see if it mounts it as a qusb_dload drive to see if you're hard brick. Also, plug it in without a battery and see if the red light comes on.
I'm assuming Verizon would be able to tell you were rooted if your phone is bricked like that. Either way it's committing insurance fraud for turning that in and claiming it wasn't your fault. They would likely look for any reason to charge you $500 for a new device.
If it's the battery it's an easy fix, if you're hard bricked you still have options to fix it, if it's a hardware problem Samsung will fix it despite it being rooted. No need to go through Verizon.
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When I plug it in without a battery the red light comes on for awhile then turns off. That means it's bricked right? Plugging it into a Mac yields no response.
My phone was working fine for a year+ after rooting, I never flashed a ROM or kernel. It just randomly started crashing a week ago for no discernible reason (reading the boards it sounds like what others experienced after the SDS fix). I don't think this is my fault correct?
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I had the same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I used a sd card and img file to debrick the phone.
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Is this relatively simple to do? Happy to try all other options, but it feels like a hardware/Dummy File Generator issue.
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When I plug it in without a battery the red light comes on for awhile then turns off. That means it's bricked right? Plugging it into a Mac yields no response.
My phone was working fine for a year+ after rooting, I never flashed a ROM or kernel. It just randomly started crashing a week ago for no discernible reason (reading the boards it sounds like what others experienced after the SDS fix). I don't think this is my fault correct?
Is this relatively simple to do? Happy to try all other options, but it feels like a hardware/Dummy File Generator issue.
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Ya I'm pretty certain it's bricked, it's not a really hard process, but you need to follow the directions exactly and it takes persistence.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397145
That's the Verizon thread, the sprint thread gives specific directions, just use the debrick image used in this thread.
Other option is jtag or taking your chances and turning it back in, prdog knows what he's talking about more than I do, I'm just extra paranoid dealing with something potentially that expensive.
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BadUsername said:
Ya I'm pretty certain it's bricked, it's not a really hard process, but you need to follow the directions exactly and it takes persistence.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2397145
That's the Verizon thread, the sprint thread gives specific directions, just use the debrick image used in this thread.
Other option is jtag or taking your chances and turning it back in, prdog knows what he's talking about more than I do, I'm just extra paranoid dealing with something potentially that expensive.
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Thanks! And thanks prdog for the peace of mind! If anyone else has an opinion/experience with this let me know, don't want to do anything stupid.:fingers-crossed: