[Q]is my phone soft bricked or hard bricked? - General Questions and Answers

i tried to install a custom rom but my phone doesnot boot neither it starts in download mode. please suggest what should i do

You could try to flash the stock rom for your phone again. Search Google if there is a stock rom ftf file and flash it with Flashtool
Another possibility is check if you have installed the correct kernel for your custom rom and install both again.

AW: [Q]is my phone soft bricked or hard bricked?
nvnanda said:
i tried to install a custom rom but my phone doesnot boot neither it starts in download mode. please suggest what should i do
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Could you give details about your installation process? A jig could fix your problem or in other words it could boot your phone in download mode.
If your recovery is available flash a custom ROM with it.

Feuersprotte said:
You could try to flash the stock rom for your phone again. Search Google if there is a stock rom ftf file and flash it with Flashtool
Another possibility is check if you have installed the correct kernel for your custom rom and install both again.
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how to flash the rom? my mobile doesnot start at all not even in recovery mode

-star- said:
Could you give details about your installation process? A jig could fix your problem or in other words it could boot your phone in download mode.
If your recovery is available flash a custom ROM with it.
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i installed the rom under normal conditions. for your info i have done this plenty of times but this time i m clueless. i have ordered for a jig but is there any other way to get my phone back?? please suggest.

Have you tried to flash it with 'Flashtool'?
Have you installed the correct Kernel for your custom rom?
Another solution might be to look in the internet for 'wotan server' - here you could try to restore your phone but it will cost a little.

u could also try odin to flash your original formware

Other than the jig is there any way to start the mobile in download mode??

You could try going into flash mode then flash a new kernal or by going into fastboot mode to flash a new custom ROM in Flashtool.
But I think this only works with Xperia Phones.

Feuersprotte said:
Have you tried to flash it with 'Flashtool'?
Have you installed the correct Kernel for your custom rom?
Another solution might be to look in the internet for 'wotan server' - here you could try to restore your phone but it will cost a little.
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but the server is for sony xperia phones

Sadra.. said:
You could try going into flash mode then flash a new kernal or by going into fastboot mode to flash a new custom ROM in Flashtool.
But I think this only works with Xperia Phones.
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workd in nexus one too

sorry, didn't have that in mind but you didn't tell us yet what phone you have and if you have used 'Flashtool' or 'Odin Flash tool' which is for Samsung phones, so it is very difficult for us to help you

Feuersprotte said:
sorry, didn't have that in mind but you didn't tell us yet what phone you have and if you have used 'Flashtool' or 'Odin Flash tool' which is for Samsung phones, so it is very difficult for us to help you
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i have samsung galaxy ace. please tell me how to use any of the tools because my phone is not starting in download mode.

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[Q] Galaxy S stuck at boot

Hallo,
I tried to install Darky's Rom and it failed.
After the install and reboot, my phone won't boot. It's stuck at the Galaxy S screen.
I can boot into download mode.
When I plug it in, the charging icon shows but isn't doing anything.
That's all I can tell...
Any ideas how I can fix this?
DynomiteSoul said:
Hallo,
I tried to install Darky's Rom and it failed.
After the install and reboot, my phone won't boot. It's stuck at the Galaxy S screen.
I can boot into download mode.
When I plug it in, the charging icon shows but isn't doing anything.
That's all I can tell...
Any ideas how I can fix this?
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If you still have access to recoverymode 2e or clockworkmod, use this to flash a new ROM, for example a WIPE rom from http://romkitchen.org/.
If you can't get into recovery mode, use ODIN and download mode to flash a new rom. Use the search and stickies on how to do that .
Thanks...no recovery mode I'm afraid...
I'll try the romkitchen tip...
DynomiteSoul said:
Thanks...no recovery mode I'm afraid...
I'll try the romkitchen tip...
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I'm afraid rom kitchen will ned recoverymode too.
Take a look at the SGS forums there is a guide somwhere on how to use odin to flash a new rom .
From there you should work towards recovery mode with clockworkmod and then you are basicly good to go for any rom.
Dark3n said:
I'm afraid rom kitchen will ned recoverymode too.
Take a look at the SGS forums there is a guide somwhere on how to use odin to flash a new rom .
From there you should work towards recovery mode with clockworkmod and then you are basicly good to go for any rom.
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Do I need adb for that?
You don't need adb to use odin, but you need working usb drivers.
Dark3n said:
You don't need adb to use odin, but you need working usb drivers.
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Found a link that did the trick but wasn't allowed to post it since I'm a n00b...
Basically I installed Froyo again using odin...
This is the link DynomiteSoul used to fix his problem.
Dark3n said:
You don't need adb to use odin, but you need working usb drivers.
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Thanks for posting the link...
I just upgraded from that to froyo xwjs7 ...
Glad to have my phone back up and running...
and just upgraded to darky's rom...

[Q] Can someone help me in a problem with my Xperia C?

Hi guys, I have had Xperia C from about 2 days. I wanted to root it to change the system fonts and I did root it successfully. But when i replaced the system fonts using ROM TOOLBOX, the phone was stuck at the boot animation.
I do a hard reset by entering recovery mode, but nothing was changed, the phone is still stuck at the boot animation.
Can someone help me please??
Have you tried flashing the phone?
Did you take a backup of your ROM at any point?
GardenToaster said:
Have you tried flashing the phone?
Did you take a backup of your ROM at any point?
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I didn't make a backup of my rom because i didn't find CWM for my phone and i didn't expect this error...
abdurrahman.kh.f said:
I didn't make a backup of my rom because i didn't find CWM for my phone and i didn't expect this error...
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You could try putting the phone into download mode, and then use a flash tool (developer.sonymobile com/downloads/tool/flash-tool-for-xperia-devices/) to flash the phone back to stock.
This is a stock ROM: 4shared com/rar/wdOnCZw4/xperia_c_c2305_sony html
It may not be the stock ROM for your phone, you'll need to make sure it's 2305..
GardenToaster said:
You could try putting the phone into download mode, and then use a flash tool (developer.sonymobile com/downloads/tool/flash-tool-for-xperia-devices/) to flash the phone back to stock.
This is a stock ROM: 4shared com/rar/wdOnCZw4/xperia_c_c2305_sony html
It may not be the stock ROM for your phone, you'll need to make sure it's 2305..
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Thank u very much friend. But what do u mean by download mode? is it flash mod?
abdurrahman.kh.f said:
Thank u very much friend. But what do u mean by download mode? is it flash mod?
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You could call it flash mode I guess, yeah.
But before trying a full flash, try going into recovery mode and selecting Wipe data/factory reset.
This will fix problems 99% of the time.
Also, I found a video that might aid you. I haven't watched it, but by the title it seems like it could help you.
(youtube com/watch?v=l7B-7tDaB5U)
GardenToaster said:
But before trying a full flash, try going into recovery mode and selecting Wipe data/factory reset.
This will fix problems 99% of the time.
Also, I found a video that might aid you. I haven't watched it, but by the title it seems like it could help you.
(youtube com/watch?v=l7B-7tDaB5U)
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Thank u again, I appreciate ur help. I've tried many times to do factory reset using recovery mode but no thing has changed, the phone is still stuck at boot animation. I'm going to flash this firmware, I think I don't have another choice..

which odin?

i have a samsung galaxy apollo (gt-15800) and want to download odin to flash a new rom to my phone but not sure which one would support my phone and where to download it from if anyone could help would be much appreciated thanks :good:
clocker-droid said:
i have a samsung galaxy apollo (gt-15800) and want to download odin to flash a new rom to my phone but not sure which one would support my phone and where to download it from if anyone could help would be much appreciated thanks :good:
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you shouldn't have to use odin to flash a rom on your phone, odin should be for recovering your devices back to stock or flashing a custom recovery. does it have a recovery on it right now?
Trozzul said:
you shouldn't have to use odin to flash a rom on your phone, odin should be for recovering your devices back to stock or flashing a custom recovery. does it have a recovery on it right now?
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no doesnt have a custom recovery yet! was trying to install cwm for my phone but the zip file was deleted from the link i went to. phone just goes to forced upload when i do the recovery button combination

lenovo a850 stuck at logo when enter recovery mode

please help my phone stuck at logo when enter recovery mode .first im a newbie here so please help as much as possible.sorry my english not very good.i was trying to flash custom rom on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a850/general/tutorial-install-cwm-twrp-lenovo-a850-t2642431 but fail so my phone became like this
lawren91 said:
please help my phone stuck at logo when enter recovery mode .first im a newbie here so please help as much as possible.sorry my english not very good.i was trying to flash custom rom on this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/lenovo-a850/general/tutorial-install-cwm-twrp-lenovo-a850-t2642431 but fail so my phone became like this
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First, what build you have? ROW or CN?
If you are unsure, try reflashing TWRP CN and see if it works.
If it doesn't, sorry to tell you that....
YOU ARE NOW HOLDING AN AP SET OF THAT PHONE(SJROM.CN):crying:
That stage, you ain't go anywhere. Just play with your stock ROM and Xposed.
hi lawren91, still having that problem?
irfanadli97 said:
First, what build you have? ROW or CN?
If you are unsure, try reflashing TWRP CN and see if it works.
If it doesn't, sorry to tell you that....
YOU ARE NOW HOLDING AN AP SET OF THAT PHONE(SJROM.CN):crying:
That stage, you ain't go anywhere. Just play with your stock ROM and Xposed.
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I have the same problem and i have row build
AzrulHisyam said:
I have the same problem and i have row build
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Had you ever OTA update the phone at some point? If so, yes flashing will fail because security has been increased whenever an Android phone gets an OTA update. If you didn't, retry TWRP ROW and see how it looks like.:good::good:
irfanadli97 said:
Had you ever OTA update the phone at some point? If so, yes flashing will fail because security has been increased whenever an Android phone gets an OTA update. If you didn't, retry TWRP ROW and see how it looks like.:good::good:
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I received a OTA update notification but never update it yet,i already try the TWRP ROW but still the same whether it TWRP ROW or TWRP CN:crying:
irfanadli97 said:
First, what build you have? ROW or CN?
If you are unsure, try reflashing TWRP CN and see if it works.
If it doesn't, sorry to tell you that....
YOU ARE NOW HOLDING AN AP SET OF THAT PHONE(SJROM.CN):crying:
That stage, you ain't go anywhere. Just play with your stock ROM and Xposed.
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how to reflash TWRP CN? Download mode, select only recovery??
Hi ,
Can you boot it up normally? If yes, then reflash recovery.img using any flasher apps download from play store ( e.g : flashify )
& If not,
if it MTK chip device, the best way to flash new img file is by using SP flash tools.
Also, for MTK device, you're able to create CWM recovery from your original boot.img automatically, using MTKDroidTools. Or PhilZ ( The best ever! )
Good luck!:good:
i have a problem on screen logo.. how to recover back?

Help! NO OS installed/Need help flashing stock ROM to soft(?)-bricked S6 SM-G290F

So yesterday i done a pretty stupid thing of restarting my phone after I hid my SU binary using hide my root. This left what i think was a soft-brick as it was stuck on the samsung animation. I then stupidly enough got confused with my TWRP recovery menu and ended up wiping out my OS, leaving only the TWRP recovery on the phone. I then decided to download a 6.1.1 stock rom for my SM-G920F. When i tried flashing however, somehow ODIN froze and i made another stupid mistake of restarting my phone from download mode which resulted in the phone being froze on a screen saying " an error has occurred while updating the device software use the emergency recovery function s6 " cant provide an image as this is my first post, but please google the error message if you wish to see it
So i panicked thinking my phone was dead completely and surrendered, but today i managed to hook it up to TWRP and flashed the recovery. Now when i bootup i can access download mode and it boots straight to recovery. To make matters worse I began trying to download the original rom i recieved when i got the phone, however when i try flashing i get errors such as " SW rev, Check Fail: 'x' binary 'y' device "
(x and y vary for each stock rom i tried flashing.)
I have no way of finding out my firmware, bootloader info or anything. Is there ANY fix to this? I've made a huge mess of everything and I'm now desperate. Please, any advice would be a god-send. Thank you for withstanding this crappy post, I'm kind of a noob at xda.
EDIT 1- So I managed to install a custom ROM and kernal as i could transfer files while in TWRP for some reason but a new problem has showed up. So as of right now I have a custom rom installed which works, but when reboot my phone, TWRP is automatically opened after the initial samsung logo. I usually have to reflash my custom ROM (without wiping any data besides cache and dalvik) and the ROM installer will then reboot into the ROM, however this means when my phone turns off, my recovery is booted up instead of the ROM
I'm sensing some sort of Bootloader problem?
Metro221 said:
Now when i bootup i can access download mode and it boots straight to recovery.
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First off i dont own an S6 (im still rocking the S4), but i have had some problems over the years but always managed to fix them in the end.
So while in Download mode are you not able to Flash Stock ROM (downloaded from samfirmware) via ODIN (following the instructions on the site)?
In TWRP are you not able to flash a custom ROM (probably with OTG cable if you dont have the ROM stored on the internal memory).
Any issues i have had i have always been able to do at least one of the above methods. If you cant do either or, im not sure what else i would try.
Thanks
Metro221 said:
So yesterday i done a pretty stupid thing of restarting my phone after I hid my SU binary using hide my root. This left what i think was a soft-brick as it was stuck on the samsung animation. I then stupidly enough got confused with my TWRP recovery menu and ended up wiping out my OS, leaving only the TWRP recovery on the phone. I then decided to download a 6.1.1 stock rom for my SM-G920F. When i tried flashing however, somehow ODIN froze and i made another stupid mistake of restarting my phone from download mode which resulted in the phone being froze on a screen saying " an error has occurred while updating the device software use the emergency recovery function s6 " cant provide an image as this is my first post, but please google the error message if you wish to see it
So i panicked thinking my phone was dead completely and surrendered, but today i managed to hook it up to TWRP and flashed the recovery. Now when i bootup i can access download mode and it boots straight to recovery. To make matters worse I began trying to download the original rom i recieved when i got the phone, however when i try flashing i get errors such as " SW rev, Check Fail: 'x' binary 'y' device "
(x and y vary for each stock rom i tried flashing.)
I have no way of finding out my firmware, bootloader info or anything. Is there ANY fix to this? I've made a huge mess of everything and I'm now desperate. Please, any advice would be a god-send. Thank you for withstanding this crappy post, I'm kind of a noob at xda.
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If you boot in TWRP recovery it can be soved easily.
1)first try do wipe data and internal partition.And then try flashing stock firmware with odin(download proper file basing on ur model)
2)U may download a rom for ur model and flash using twrp.then if u want u can stay with the rom,i u dont u can try to flash again with odin after installing rom
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Rremi said:
If you boot in TWRP recovery it can be soved easily.
1)first try do wipe data and internal partition.And then try flashing stock firmware with odin(download proper file basing on ur model)
2)U may download a rom for ur model and flash using twrp.then if u want u can stay with the rom,i u dont u can try to flash again with odin after installing rom
Click :good: for my answer
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Yeah i managed to install a custom rom Tyrannus v 28.1, through TWRP, however, now I am experiencing a new problem, when i reboot - my phone boots up into TWRP instead of the ROM, more information in the edit i made in the post. THanks for all the continued help
Rremi said:
If you boot in TWRP recovery it can be soved easily.
1)first try do wipe data and internal partition.And then try flashing stock firmware with odin(download proper file basing on ur model)
2)U may download a rom for ur model and flash using twrp.then if u want u can stay with the rom,i u dont u can try to flash again with odin after installing rom
Click :good: for my answer
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Waste of a post, but i wanted to say shqiptar, faleminderit. :*
Metro221 said:
Waste of a post, but i wanted to say shqiptar, faleminderit. :*
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Ska gje.
Nga shqiperia je ?
Rremi said:
Ska gje.
Nga shqiperia je ?
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Po po nga shqiperia.
But living in London ????
Would Samsung smart switch not help installing the stock rom?
Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
jr866gooner said:
Would Samsung smart switch not help installing the stock rom?
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'Device not recognised' fixed it though. Flashed custom ROM with TWRP
Emergency recovery will and should help.

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