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Well my captivate is repaired. I didn't think it was possible but Josh Groce of the famed rom in a flash review videos was able to fix it for me.
Price is great and turn around time, atleast for my phone was awesome.
You can find more info at mobiletechreview.com
It is well worth the time it takes to contact him. Chances are if you have bricked your phone he will be able to fix it for you and it's a lot cheaper than buying a new phone.
I can't say enough good things about him and his work, he is a brilliant young man and we should all be thankful that he is a part of the xda community and wants to help people. I don't believe he does it for the money, off he did he would charge alot more than he does.
I hope this helps some of you that are in a bind with your phone, he certainly helped me.
Thanks Josh, for saving my phone.
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How did you brick it?
Your phone wasn't bricked if a jig fixed your problem.
P.s. you can't make jigs yourself for $5. That's not buying the supplies at a bulk discount. Takes approximately 1 minute to make when you have everything you need in front of you. So charging 8-10$ is actually a huge profit. Say 3$ Evey minute you work times 60 minutes in an hour. $180 an hour for what equates to monkey work. Not to shabby.
Edit: yes I oversimplified the process and math to exaggerate my opinion. Point remains the same.
I don't think he was talking about a jig. Probably he had to have his flashed.
His videos r helpful. But I would like to know how u bricked it and what he did to unbrick it...did he just gave u a jig? or changed something in the hardware? I am bricking a lot lately...would be great to take his help...
Don't quote me. But I think be is talking about a jtag type flash
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viny2cool said:
His videos r helpful. But I would like to know how u bricked it and what he did to unbrick it...did he just gave u a jig? or changed something in the hardware? I am bricking a lot lately...would be great to take his help...
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Pretty sure it involved a riff box and removing the motherboard. That's the only way to recover a completely bricked phone.
How long did shipping take? I ask because I ordered a jig from him a while ago to have just in case and I ail don't have it...
I was able to get into d/l mode with a jig but it would just shut itself off basically. Josh worked some magic on it for me.
I bricked it going back to stock from cm7. Like a dummy I didn't follow the directions.
It was truly fubared, before it started shutting off I was getting different colored screens. Green, blue, purple, then all black. This happened each time I tried to use odin to flash stock again.
To me his work was well worth it, now I can take this p.o.s atrix back and wait for the sgs2 or infuse to come out.
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How long did shipping take? I ask because I ordered a jig from him a while ago to have just in case and I ail don't have it...
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I shipped it out last fri, he got it yesterday and is shipping it out today. How long ago did you order the jig? I would just ask him about it, he seems like a very nice person. Ill let you know more when I get the phone back, shouldn't take long.
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To be honest I'm not 100% sure how he fixed it, I dont really care about that. Just glad I will have it back. Ive tried 3 inspires and then bought an atrix. They may be slightly faster than the captivate but screen quality doesn't come close to me. Maybe my eyes are getting old.
I am pretty sure though that he had to use his jtag box on it, I could be wrong. All I know for sure is that he fixed it and I can't wait to get it back.
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I was able to get into d/l mode with a jig but it would just shut itself off basically. Josh worked some magic on it for me.
I bricked it going back to stock from cm7. Like a dummy I didn't follow the directions.
It was truly fubared, before it started shutting off I was getting different colored screens. Green, blue, purple, then all black. This happened each time I tried to use odin to flash stock again.
To me his work was well worth it, now I can take this p.o.s atrix back and wait for the sgs2 or infuse to come out.
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i actually had this same brick last night (funny colors mid way through odin and everything). i bricked doing the EXACT same thing that you did, however, i was able to repair it by going into download mode (mine i can hold the volume rockers and put in usb to go to d/l mode, so no need for a jig) downloaded odin 1-click that DG put out (worst 40 minute wait of my life, felt like an eternity) and flashed it back to stock with odin 1-click.
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i actually had this same brick last night (funny colors mid way through odin and everything). i bricked doing the EXACT same thing that you did, however, i was able to repair it by going into download mode (mine i can hold the volume rockers and put in usb to go to d/l mode, so no need for a jig) downloaded odin 1-click that DG put out (worst 40 minute wait of my life, felt like an eternity) and flashed it back to stock with odin 1-click.
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I did try the odin version that dg put out but for some reason no matter what I tried my phone would just shut down. I'm not very tech savvy. I know just enough to get into trouble.
I'm glad you were able to fix yours, I just thought I'd post this for dummies like myself that tinker too much and beak things. Hopefully it will hellp someone.
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Got my phone back today and it works like new.
My thanks goes out to Josh
Now just have to wait for the infuse to come out so I can screw it up too.
Wife will someday kill me.
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after being bricked for 6 hours i got my phone to work again...........
and i have decided to go for it again.lol
we learn as we go.....
no harm in trying right?
lets c how it goes.
Good luck. I have screwed up several times. Thats the fun of it to see if you can make your phone best it can be tweaked and learn along the way. And as always if you need help just ask.
you have bigger balls than i do after i recovered from a brick it took me like 2 weeks for me to gain the courage to flash odin again.... 2 weeks if a eterenity for me not having a rooted device lol.. just ask my wife i normallly don't go 2 days of having my new phone..
If at first you don't succeed, ODIN and try again, lol
I screwed my phone up last night as well. Used Tegrak and OC'd to 1.3 ghz and it ran fine for a few hours then rebooted. It would lock up at the boot animation. I reflashed 5.0 and all was well again.
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Kryptonian_Knight said:
after being bricked for 6 hours i got my phone to work again...........
and i have decided to go for it again.lol
we learn as we go.....
no harm in trying right?
lets c how it goes.
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Good luck to you. It really is no big deal once you get use to it. And bricked usually means gone for good. Most people just erase everything from the phone and then just fail to load the replacement operating which means the phone is just brand new again.
Here are some videos I have made to help people who need visuals like me...
Let me know if you need some help along the way.
www.youtube.com/kraisydave
www.kdtech.org
Dave
Everyone deserves to get the most out of their phone!
kraisydave said:
Good luck to you. It really is no big deal once you get use to it. And bricked usually means gone for good. Most people just erase everything from the phone and then just fail to load the replacement operating which means the phone is just brand new again.
Here are some videos I have made to help people who need visuals like me...
Let me know if you need some help along the way.
www.youtube.com/kraisydave
www.kdtech.org
Dave
Everyone deserves to get the most out of their phone!
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Lol its your video i was using thanks for that man
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so my wife went in to labor a few hours after i fixed my phone and now im just sitting at the hospital with my baby girl(getting her started early lol) trying to flash the GB leak(rooted)n but just like before it stops at lte modem been 25 min on this and nothing happens.... any ideas y? the only thing i can think of is that my actual phone is jacked up, cause when i do try to go back to stock it take about 8 to 9 trys before flashing back.
Hmm I dont know but congrats. Did you try re downloading the file? I know it works part of the way but maybe it got screwed somehow. It work for stock so phone cant be to screwed up.
LOL yeah I just did something and stuck. Wont do anything. Have to re install Humble RC2. Oh well.
Hi there,
My roommate owns a Samsung Infuse, and had to send it back after he threw it and it wouldn't turn on. Now he got the replacement infuse last night and he ran it over with his car on our way to the tanners.
My question is, what will AT&T do? Will they replace the second phone since it hasn't even been 24 hours? Or since he damaged it physically, will they not take it back?
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My suggestion is if you are not the same retardness as your friend, get far away from that person.
Just a matter of time he will throw you out and run you over.
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My suggestion is if you are not the same retardness as your friend, get far away from that person.
Just a matter of time he will throw you out and run you over.
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Right , sounds like your friend is as mentally damaged as his phone is physically damaged, I would suggest he just gets one of the old nokia brick phones if he wants to throw and drive over his handsets, haha
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Well, stock Infuse is infuriating, so I can't really blame him. But it was on the roof of his car when we pulled out, and when we got back we saw it completely shattered. So he didn't run it over on purpose.
He just has some anger issues But he needs his phone, since we go out of town every weekend for work. Currently, he's using an old Palm with a shattered screen. I was hoping somebody with AT&T replacement experience would be able to help us out. We're considering just calling and saying the replacement arrived like that. But we'll see.
Well if you are looking for a replacement I would def say go with the Galaxy Note. It's pretty much an amazing phone/tablet.... thing. I am waiting for it to come to Sprint
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Well if you are looking for a replacement I would def say go with the Galaxy Note. It's pretty much an amazing phone/tablet.... thing. I am waiting for it to come to Sprint
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I do have the Note. But he needs to get through this phone to get a model swap. Now we just have to get AT&T to either model swap his phone!
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HI Guys,
So I just tried to flash the Supercharged v7 rom from the ICS leak and now my phone wont turn on. When I have the battery in it heats up a lot, so I think it's trying to turn on.
Is there anyway to fix this?
Thanks
Little more info please.
Were you on the ICS leak before you tried to flash it? Or GB?
Also any LED lights on?
Have you tried a different battery? Will it boot into fastboot? Hold both voume buttons down while it's off and then press and hold the power button.
And for future reference you should have posted this on SC7's thread as it involves the ROM. Keeps the forum a little tidier.
Fall of Enosis said:
And for future reference you should have posted this on SC7's thread as it involves the ROM. Keeps the forum a little tidier.
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Hi Sorry... Here is some more info:
Yeah I have tried getting it to boot while holding down both volume buttons, but nothing happens. I was on super the ICS leak when I tried to flash, and no LED lights turn on.
Would any more info be helpful? Sorry, I am new to the android scene (had an iphone before)
Thanks
Ok, sounds like a hardbrick, however, the only thing I would try is to get your hands on another battery and see if it boots that way. Possibly borrow one from an AT&T store?
If it doesn't boot with a new battery it's probably an expensive paperweight now.
How did you flash it? With our new recovery? You didn't use the bootstrapper APK did you?
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Ok, sounds like a hardbrick, however, the only thing I would try is to get your hands on another battery and see if it boots that way. Possibly borrow one from an AT&T store?
If it doesn't boot with a new battery it's probably an expensive paperweight now.
How did you flash it? With our new recovery? You didn't use the bootstrapper APK did you?
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I used the new recovery. I will bring it to an AT&T store and try a new battery.
You sure you used boot menu? AND did you try to "flash" it? Or did you do a system restore....
Also did the phone die in the middle of the flash? Or would it not reboot?
also just hard bricked.......
Fall of Enosis said:
Ok, sounds like a hardbrick, however, the only thing I would try is to get your hands on another battery and see if it boots that way. Possibly borrow one from an AT&T store?
If it doesn't boot with a new battery it's probably an expensive paperweight now.
How did you flash it? With our new recovery? You didn't use the bootstrapper APK did you?
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I had just gotten back from ICS and was on GB for a few days realizing how slow GB is I was on my way back to the leak, following the instructions given by Jim so as i was flashing back to 2.3.5 the RSD lite stop for a while on step 5 and then it failed..so ever since i have a bricked atrix 2 :silly: . researching cell phone repair places on line found a few, but can anyone recommend any? also i notice how the phone gets warm if left with the battery in, whats that all about?
fauna said:
I had just gotten back from ICS and was on GB for a few days realizing how slow GB is I was on my way back to the leak, following the instructions given by Jim so as i was flashing back to 2.3.5 the RSD lite stop for a while on step 5 and then it failed..so ever since i have a bricked atrix 2 :silly: . researching cell phone repair places on line found a few, but can anyone recommend any? also i notice how the phone gets warm if left with the battery in, whats that all about?
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Yeah this is the same brick many of us got. the battery will get hot, don't know why, but take it out or it is toast along with the phone, many people had that so you may need a new one. your best bet to fix is to buy a cheap broken phone on ebay with a working main board, so basically you are buying a main board but cheaper because people don't realize the phone i worth anything when the screen is shattered and the camera is shot. then you can pop the new board in your old phone and you are good to go.
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Yeah this is the same brick many of us got. the battery will get hot, don't know why, but take it out or it is toast along with the phone, many people had that so you may need a new one. your best bet to fix is to buy a cheap broken phone on ebay with a working main board, so basically you are buying a main board but cheaper because people don't realize the phone i worth anything when the screen is shattered and the camera is shot. then you can pop the new board in your old phone and you are good to go.
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So I bought a cheap Atrix2 (with a broken screen) in working condition along with a T5 torx screwdriver on Ebay, then watched on youtube how to replace the screen of an A2 thus figuring out how to replace the motherboard. I most thank lkrasner for suggesting it.
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I got my phone bricked now..i cant boot the phone and the battery gets hot when i tried to boot the phone.
Is there anyway how i can restore the brick...I read that replacing the mother board will work....
Is this my only option....
I also read about daughter board which i can buy online...but is this the same as the motherboard of atrix 2 or something else.
Please help.
rejijoseph14 said:
I got my phone bricked now..i cant boot the phone and the battery gets hot when i tried to boot the phone.
Is there anyway how i can restore the brick...I read that replacing the mother board will work....
Is this my only option....
I also read about daughter board which i can buy online...but is this the same as the motherboard of atrix 2 or something else.
Please help.
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Try and get it replaced with your warranty that's pretty much your only option with a hard brick
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I got this phone from US and it does not have warranty...am from india...its an at&t unlocked phone...i saw that someone had replaced his motherboard and fixed his phone... Can I do the same and restore the bricked phone...
rejijoseph14 said:
I got this phone from US and it does not have warranty...am from india...its an at&t unlocked phone...i saw that someone had replaced his motherboard and fixed his phone... Can I do the same and restore the bricked phone...
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/110943834593
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Bricked my phone
Do you think changing the motherdrive will work ?
rejijoseph14 said:
Do you think changing the motherdrive will work ?
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Yup..will work..
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Yes, it will work.
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It worked for me :laugh: search for this video on youtube "Motorola Atrix 2 Take Apart Repair Guide" And before minute 3 you will know how you can exchange the motherboard your self! Make sure your new motherboard is in working condition and enjoy your Atrix 2.
We have a guide for that guys.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746094
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Ordered the logic board just got a hard brick lol
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triloger said:
Ordered the logic board just got a hard brick lol
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Same here!!!
Hey guys,
This is my first post, but I have lurked here for a long time. I just have a huge problem I am facing now, and need your input.
Last October, I bought a new LG Optimus G E973 at Bell, in replacement of my (dreaded) iPhone in favor of an android device (customization, developing, etc).
I never really had any issues with it till the other day. The battery died in it, and when I went home to charge it...nothing happened. No blinking red light at the top, no LG logo, nothing at all, literally.
Now I went to Bell and my phone is covered under my Manufacturer Warranty. Only one problem...I have a custom rom and recovery on it. Cyanogenmod, and TWRP.
I am debating on whether or not to send it in to them, because I have tried everything to get it to do ANYTHING, but it just wont...switched chargers, tried to connect to pc, mac, etc.
So I am wondering if I cant turn it on, they wont be able to either, and thus just send me a new phone. Or, they will fix it, turn it on and show that it had CGM and a non-stock recovery, and then maybe charge me for the repair? Or should I just go to a tech and pay however much eh wants foor me to fix it...
I really hope I can send it in to them..as I am quite broke right now, and cannot afford to pay a technician to fix it. I knew that installing CGM and a custom Recovery would void my warranty, and I am not saying that I was clueless to thuis. But do you guys think I have a chance in hell to get it replaced?
Any input or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Gor.
They wont just fix your phone and ask you for money... they will let you know what it's gonna charge you and then do furthur process..
U can very easily claim that u r under warranty and no notification were given to you about the cost...
Anyways... have you tried different battery?
Let me know
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pushkardua said:
They wont just fix your phone and ask you for money... they will let you know what it's gonna charge you and then do furthur process..
U can very easily claim that u r under warranty and no notification were given to you about the cost...
Anyways... have you tried different battery?
Let me know
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Hey, thanks for responding.
Im not quite following you on the whole warranty thing, but I haven no new battery to trry in it. I am under warranty, im just concerned if they will not process it because of the phones software. But is it possible they might just send me a new phone?