I was surfing the forums here and seen this and thought I would post it as it might help with some soft bricks, when fastboot is not wanting to work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2198223
I take no responsibility if you try that and it damages your device.
alldoom65 said:
I was surfing the forums here and seen this and thought I would post it as it might help with some hard bricks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2198223
I take no responsibility if you try that and it damages your device, but if it is hard bricked it is not like you have much to lose.
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That's a solution for a soft brick, not a hard brick.There's a reason why it's called hard brick dude, you can't recover from it unless you're tony stark and are able to patch the blown e-fuses
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Yeah after taking a closer look that does look more like a softbrick fix not a hardbrick fix.
Sorry everyone that was my bad, I asked alldoom65 to post this thinking it would help someone out of a hard brick, but I did not read close enough to see that the guy was stuck on M logo.... so everyone can slap me, not alldoom65.
Hey alldoom65, maybe change the title to indicate that this post is an alternate way out of a softbrick, when rsd does not see the phone, and you do not have the scripts. Not a hardbrick fix. you can edit the title in the go advanced button in the edit screen, I think.
Again sorry everyone, especially to you alldoom65.
jimbridgman said:
Yeah after taking a closer look that does look more like a softbrick fix not a hardbrick fix.
Sorry everyone that was my bad, I asked alldoom65 to post this thinking it would help someone out of a hard brick, but I did not read close enough to see that the guy was stuck on M logo.... so everyone can slap me, not alldoom65.
Hey alldoom65, maybe change the title to indicate that this post is an alternate way out of a softbrick, when rsd does not see the phone, and you do not have the scripts. Not a hardbrick fix. you can edit the title in the go advanced button in the edit screen, I think.
Again sorry everyone, especially to you alldoom65.
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Jim!!!So it's true then.You never left the A2 forum.You're just taking a vacation and when that ends you're planning on making an epic comeback right???
Please say yes
And rest assured you're the last person anyone on this forum would wanna slap.
May the -Mass times Acceleration- be with you...
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Jim!!!So it's true then.You never left the A2 forum.You're just taking a vacation and when that ends you're planning on making an epic comeback right???
Please say yes
And rest assured you're the last person anyone on this forum would wanna slap.
May the -Mass times Acceleration- be with you...
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I never fully left, just been taking a back seat.
I am working on buying an engineering version of the atrix2 with an unlocked bootloader, so... We'll see.. I might be back with a vengeance, soon.
P.S. I love your signature
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I never fully left, just been taking a back seat.
I am working on buying an engineering version of the atrix2 with an unlocked bootloader, so... We'll see.. I might be back with a vengeance, soon.
P.S. I love your signature
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Lol thanks and here I thought no one would understand.
May the -Mass times Acceleration- be with you.
So my A2 seems really dead for some reason. I had system 1 in BMM as Stock ICS rooted. System 2 blank and 3 PAC milestone RC1. Flashed a 4.3 font on system 1 accidentally and lost BMM. Had a day to get to a computer and try the windows.batch cuz not enough time for FXZ. No avail. Rebooted a couple times and now its a blank. Won't get into fast boot barely unless I have it plugged in while volume up n down while stuck on M. Plugged into PC I get the white led. But wall AC only brings me to M. Not battery charging. I don't get it. It can't be bricked. Can battery be done for? Wtf happened? I'm currently trying to get a Motorola branded USB wall AC charger to see if I can get it to at least charge to 5% and give the windows.batch a go again...
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So my A2 seems really dead for some reason. I had system 1 in BMM as Stock ICS rooted. System 2 blank and 3 PAC milestone RC1. Flashed a 4.3 font on system 1 accidentally and lost BMM. Had a day to get to a computer and try the windows.batch cuz not enough time for FXZ. No avail. Rebooted a couple times and now its a blank. Won't get into fast boot barely unless I have it plugged in while volume up n down while stuck on M. Plugged into PC I get the white led. But wall AC only brings me to M. Not battery charging. I don't get it. It can't be bricked. Can battery be done for? Wtf happened? I'm currently trying to get a Motorola branded USB wall AC charger to see if I can get it to at least charge to 5% and give the windows.batch a go again...
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Yup has happened to me before(I think).It's a soft brick.Get more juice in your battery and then fxz back or use the windows patch.You should be just fine..
Good luck..
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Yup has happened to me before(I think).It's a soft brick.Get more juice in your battery and then fxz back or use the windows patch.You should be just fine..
Good luck..
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That's happened to me too. Had to use the macguyver battery charge method to get it back going again.
Brought to you by time and relative dimensions in space.
1BadWolf said:
That's happened to me too. Had to use the macguyver battery charge method to get it back going again.
Brought to you by time and relative dimensions in space.
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LIKE A BOSS! It's up and running! Thanks for the info dude...I did sum crazy surgery and took a huge gamble doing this but it worked like a lucky charm! AWESOME! Letting it charge cuz after the FXZ It's at 0%! Crazy! Letting it get to 100 before I even try rooting it. So glad I got my laptop back today too!!!
This is what the cord looked like after cutting and seperating/taping. I'm keeping this thing just in case I ever need it again! lol!
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The USB cable pop out when I'm update on Kies. Now my phone totally dead. I can't turn on, can't do anything. I tried so many many way in forum, but the screen still black, nothing happen. What can I do now? need some serious advice from pros. Thanks a lot.
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4G#Download_Mode
Then flash the sms kj6 heimdall one click rom
alvinvnguyen said:
The USB cable pop out when I'm update on Kies. Now my phone totally dead. I can't turn on, can't do anything. I tried so many many way in forum, but the screen still black, nothing happen. What can I do now? need some serious advice from pros. Thanks a lot.
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Do what FB says, sometimes download mode stays on black screen as long as the computer recognizes ur good.
alvinvnguyen said:
The USB cable pop out when I'm update on Kies. Now my phone totally dead. I can't turn on, can't do anything. I tried so many many way in forum, but the screen still black, nothing happen. What can I do now? need some serious advice from pros. Thanks a lot.
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Lol this happened the first odin flash i ever did... My dog jumped in my lap and stepped on the cord and it came unplugged. Phone was softbricked for 2 days... I thought i killed it lol.
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Thanks for reply me. I understand what u guy said. But the point is my phone totally black. Can't connect to PC, can't use the 3 buttons combo. only can charge the battery. That's it. Have u guy seen that before? Is it can be fix by regular way or I have to send the phone to Mobile Shop?
Aww crap dude, i know your pain, i hard bricked my first sgs4g two days after i got it. Go to a t-mobile store or call them and ask for a replacement ask for a NEW phone, the refurbished ones are crap. Before you send it to tmobile, reformat the phones sd card so they cant see you did anything.(rooted it or whatever) If you used kies for an offical update you dont have to lie, i had to since i used odin.
You could also send to a guy who owns a riff jtag box, do a google search for that.
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If you can charge the battery it is not dead or hard bricked.
Bassmanjames said:
If you can charge the battery it is not dead or hard bricked.
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He's right. If your charging you can recover it. It's happened to me and I recovered. Click the link FB posted to the wiki.
Also, if you try download mode and you see a black screen, look for any white pixels. That is an issue with SBL, where after a bad flash, it will be in download mode, but it will show nothing or some pixelated garbage. If you see any light coming from the screen ( check in a dark room or closet, then your fine, just attempt ODIN or Heimdall. Not Kies
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A have a link to a video that I would appreciate you to check out. My Samsung Infuse 4g shut off randomly during use and constantly reboots itself. The rest is explained in the video's description.
*i can't link because I'm a new user.. However.. The phone shuts off and pulls up the Samsung screen, i have flashed a custom CM9 ROM onto it, however it ran fine until it just randomly shut off.. I don't know why it did it. But now I can't get it into Download Mode or into it's Clockwork Recovery.. I'm not sure if it is bricked or if there is any way I can fix it.. The video is titled "Samsung Infuse 4g AT&T (Please Help)" it will either be under Brandon Meadors or androiduser360. Please and thank you for help.
Thank you so much for any help you can give.
Hi M8! Yesterday i posted a thread about the very same situation, i have two motherboards with that same issue. My guess i that youre not used to flash cell phones, so my guess is also that it means that you dont have develop good soldering skills. Theres a development made by a guy named Adam Outler in here called Unbrickable Mod. He is very highly skill developer. I have the same issue you have right now with a couple motherboards i have. And im going to apply that mod today to see if i can restore my cell phone back. If it works ill let you know, so that maybe you can find a way to do it. If thats the case, i suggest you to read, read, and keep reading lol... Theres a lot to learn about when we deal with situations like that. Ive never deal with something like that, but ive done UnbrickableMod many times already. So ill let you know
Well you can always use a usb jig if you want it will boot your phone into download mode then flash to stock.
Heres a good link on how to make one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604707
Yeah its a good idea Ty113096, the problem is that the JIG doesnt work either. When you insert the JIG the phone will get to download mode ok, but then a couple seconds later it will reboot and the bootloop goes on and on. Oh! By the way UnbrickableMod didnt solve it! The phone will do pretty much the same when the resurrector is applied. Very strange situation but such is life i guess...
Thank you guys so much for the help.. So.. Is this unfixable?
infuse4g360 said:
Thank you guys so much for the help.. So.. Is this unfixable?
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Use odin and go back to stoxk and start over
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did you could fix it?
infuse4g360 said:
Thank you guys so much for the help.. So.. Is this unfixable?
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I have the same issue, did you could fix it?:fingers-crossed:
rasm007 said:
I have the same issue, did you could fix it?:fingers-crossed:
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If you can get into recovery (pull battery, up/down volume depressed, connect usb and install battery)...these are some posts that I've found helpful. If it works, hit qksters and jscotts thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437548
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
P.S. qksters is stickied right at the top of this q&a forum. Section A would probably apply to you.
Take out the battery and place it back. Does it automatically turn on?
If it does then your problem is the power button.
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I'm agree with andros11 your power button is broken
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You saved the day, i took the phone apart like 3 times trying to figure it out. thank you.
(what fixed it for me was i removed the housing and took out the plastic/rubber button cover, then put battery back in phone -and for the first time it didnt power up on it's own!!! clicked the little white button-node with pry tool and it started like normal) so simple...
Delimma:
I have a stock 4.0.4 OTA A2 and is rooted, and any time I go into SQlite, and alter the entitlement check to "0" and restart it. It freezes at the "rethink possibilities" and never fully boots. It cannot be turned off until i pull the battery..
Now I've ensured that nothing else is changed because I've done a hard reset 2 times after trying this for the last day.. and id like some help before I attempt this a third time. So anyone have any ideas? And yes I checked the right directory: com.Motorola.Android.providers.settings and I altered the correct terms, I have not tried "disabled" yet and I'm confused… any ideas?
-Colin
Edit1: title
Edit 2: so, i changed the entitlement check to disabled and last night i forgot to put my phone on the charger so this morning, the battery was and is completely drained. Thinking things would be fine, i plugged it in and waited for quite some time, to no avail. I can finally get the screen on and it stays at the "M: Dual core Tech" screen, and i believe that I have soft bricked my device, can i get a second opinion on this, and if so, would the macgyver method be the best idea currently? Ive searched around a little bit, and ive came to a couple conclusions: 1. do the macgyver method and hope to put some charge in the battery and recover via boot menu, or try and FXZ back to OTA ICS?
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you must change it to disabled, 0 didnt work for me either
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Thank you!! And then its okay to reboot right? Yours didn't stick at the splash screen?
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boots just fine
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demonoid phenomenom said:
you must change it to disabled, 0 didnt work for me either
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Weird mine always worked set at 0.... I never updated past leak 1 tho so must be something was changed...
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new issue, read post #1
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try out macgyver stuff, then do wipes all over the place fix permissions, i think fxz would be too riskier cauze you wont know how much juice you put into battery and risk an awful hard brick
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So temporarily fixed my soft brick, got no power, but had a white led when plugged in, read a bit online, and heard to plug it into an outlet after a little bit, and that solved it for a while, so today, tried to access the phone, it locked up on me. I pulled the battery, trying to boot up, and that failed. stuck at the moto flash screen, each time I try to power it up. so now that im here, should I try to fxz back to stock 4.0.4 using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961310 since I was already on OTA, or is there another idea someone else has?
Colin31 said:
So temporarily fixed my soft brick, got no power, but had a white led when plugged in, read a bit online, and heard to plug it into an outlet after a little bit, and that solved it for a while, so today, tried to access the phone, it locked up on me. I pulled the battery, trying to boot up, and that failed. stuck at the moto flash screen, each time I try to power it up. so now that im here, should I try to fxz back to stock 4.0.4 using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961310 since I was already on OTA, or is there another idea someone else has?
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Yes use that fxz that you linked. That is what you want it you took the ota, that should fix you up. Good luck!
jimbridgman said:
Yes use that fxz that you linked. That is what you want it you took the ota, that should fix you up. Good luck!
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I FXZ'd back using that link, and I can't boot fully, it still stays at the flash screen, and I cant even boot into recovery. Just reflash?
Title says it all. my vibrate no longer works for any part of my phone. any and all help is appreciated.
thanks
p2kmafia said:
Title says it all. my vibrate no longer works for any part of my phone. any and all help is appreciated.
thanks
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It's possibly the vibrate motor. It's not unheard of for them to go out.
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+1. Hardware issue.
Still Charged Up
sounds like a personal problem - wore out your vibrator... j/k
never heard of that though - have you tried reflashing the ROM or resetting your sound settings?
tried everything but refreshing back from ep4. I was really hoping it wasn't hardware. wtf do I do now? haha
If you rule everything else out and it is the motor, it can be replaced if you don't mind a little disassembly. It's typically one of the easier repairs to do. In most phone, it's just a little round, flat cylinder, about the size of a small watch or hearing aid battery, clipped to the motherboard and connected by two wires.
how much would that cost and where do I buy the motor?
I'm pretty sure the motor is actually integrated (as in soldered) onto the board. Assuming you can actually find the motor, it's going to be a PITA desoldering and soldering that sucker. Why not just get your Charge replaced?
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p2kmafia said:
Title says it all. my vibrate no longer works for any part of my phone. any and all help is appreciated.
thanks
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What I have done. (I also have insurance)
ODIN with PIT
In the middle of re-partitioning with the PIT pull the plug and disconnect all battery sources.
When you turn it back on It will say to connect to the computer and download mode will not
work... Take it to the store and tell them that the vibrate alert stopped working. You checked
to see if there was an update and there was. Take the update and then this showed up. Works
every time for me >.< Any time I frail up my phone I incorrectly PIT it and make an excuse to
get another one bahaha
je2854 said:
What I have done. (I also have insurance)
ODIN with PIT
In the middle of re-partitioning with the PIT pull the plug and disconnect all battery sources.
When you turn it back on It will say to connect to the computer and download mode will not
work... Take it to the store and tell them that the vibrate alert stopped working. You checked
to see if there was an update and there was. Take the update and then this showed up. Works
every time for me >.< Any time I frail up my phone I incorrectly PIT it and make an excuse to
get another one bahaha
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THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS.
But yeah, that'll work, but make up some other excuse than taking the update, FP5 is too mature for this to work, but then again a VZW employee likely wouldn't know on a phone this old.
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Bad mojo..
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someone said swap doing it... i think it's the guy above me
.... lol
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lukegman said:
someone said swap doing it... i think it's the guy above me
.... lol
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I use swap and my vibrate works just fine.
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I've had my charge since the day after it came out haha waiting on the s4 to upgrade I don't think they'll give me any more charges (I'm on #4). But not having vibrate sucks. I did hear that swap was doing this to some people and I have swap activated, I'm going to try that out for size, will report back
so i don't think replacing my charge is a possibility (unless I pull the this phone is f#@$!ng terrible card) which I'm not in the mood to do. Also, disabling swap did not help wiped dalvik also just in case that could affect anything. I was scared my phone stopped accepting charge and was about to re-partition my phone last night but it was 4am and my phone decided to work again so that's probably the last thing I can do and I'll do it when I've got some free time this weekend and report back for anyone having this same issue.
on a semi-related note what are you guys planning on upgrading to? I want to wait for the moto x but would rather get the S4 because I like what samsung has been doing with extra features in their version of android, but also the HTC M7 looks super appealing and its not mumbo jumbo like the s4
p2kmafia said:
so i don't think replacing my charge is a possibility (unless I pull the this phone is f#@$!ng terrible card) which I'm not in the mood to do. Also, disabling swap did not help wiped dalvik also just in case that could affect anything. I was scared my phone stopped accepting charge and was about to re-partition my phone last night but it was 4am and my phone decided to work again so that's probably the last thing I can do and I'll do it when I've got some free time this weekend and report back for anyone having this same issue.
on a semi-related note what are you guys planning on upgrading to? I want to wait for the moto x but would rather get the S4 because I like what samsung has been doing with extra features in their version of android, but also the HTC M7 looks super appealing and its not mumbo jumbo like the s4
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I'm holding out for another Verizon Nexus to come around.
p2kmafia said:
so i don't think replacing my charge is a possibility (unless I pull the this phone is f#@$!ng terrible card) which I'm not in the mood to do. Also, disabling swap did not help wiped dalvik also just in case that could affect anything. I was scared my phone stopped accepting charge and was about to re-partition my phone last night but it was 4am and my phone decided to work again so that's probably the last thing I can do and I'll do it when I've got some free time this weekend and report back for anyone having this same issue.
on a semi-related note what are you guys planning on upgrading to? I want to wait for the moto x but would rather get the S4 because I like what samsung has been doing with extra features in their version of android, but also the HTC M7 looks super appealing and its not mumbo jumbo like the s4
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I went with the ThunderBolt. HUGE ROMS but still one of the best LTE phones out ( as in being like a tank and being sturdy)
Hi , i just hard bricked my atrix 2 , while doing the downgrade ICS to Ginger....
the phone doesn't power on .. only a white led keeps on...
anyone can help me to find a solution??.... :crying::crying::crying:
This is why downgrading to ginger is not advisable..
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Zyst said:
Hi , i just hard bricked my atrix 2 , while doing the downgrade ICS to Ginger....
the phone doesn't power on .. only a white led keeps on...
anyone can help me to find a solution??.... :crying::crying::crying:
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What was the need dude ? Its hard brick but u may try with diff battery :good:
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Tushcool said:
What was the need dude ? Its hard brick but u may try with diff battery :good:
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i wanted to go back to ginger for solve some Hdmi audio issues... but during the RSD flash, the phone just rebooted and don't get back...
i already try to recharge the battery with a wall charger ..and use the MACgyver method... but no results
Zyst said:
i wanted to go back to ginger for solve some Hdmi audio issues... but during the RSD flash, the phone just rebooted and don't get back...
i already try to recharge the battery with a wall charger ..and use the MACgyver method... but no results
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I read somewhere in atrix 2 forum , One of the user had same problem. White led ....but when he took cell to motoservice centre they said battery was dead n they changed it.. he also charged battery with wall charger but no solution. I suggest you to take it to the service centre .
Zyst said:
i wanted to go back to ginger for solve some Hdmi audio issues... but during the RSD flash, the phone just rebooted and don't get back...
i already try to recharge the battery with a wall charger ..and use the MACgyver method... but no results
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Sorry. You're hard bricked. There is no fixing that. Your only option is to get it replaced if it is still under warranty. If you don't have a warranty, it is now an expensive lesson on why we always say read, read, read, read.....
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
My deepest condolences.. :'(
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Sorry. You're hard bricked. There is no fixing that. Your only option is to get it replaced if it is still under warranty. If you don't have a warranty, it is now an expensive lesson on why we always say read, read, read, read.....
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
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No one ever does !!!!