Hello everyone. My brother has a motorola atrix 2 I give away, I was in ics and the attempt to return to gingerbread. The phone was left dead, only the LED turns white when connected to usb.
I have a dev motorola cable and universal charger to charge the battery
Do you think you can save the phone?
Can anyone help me? :crying:
It looks like you have hard bricked your A2, by now you should have known that you cannot go back to GB. If you are still under warranty, try to get a replacement.
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minhajlk said:
It looks like you have hard bricked your A2, by now you should have known that you cannot go back to GB. If you are still under warranty, try to get a replacement.
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Hey guys,
As the title suggests, I hard bricked my phone. I was flashing the Sky Ice Cream ROM and its associated update in CWM, and then I flashed the Sky Kernel by faux immediately after. When I went to reset the phone, it never turned back on. I tried all the combinations of button pressing and taking out the microsd card, sim card, and battery while plugging it into the computer. Nothing worked so far. I was wondering if you guys had any more suggestions before I go down to the AT&T store so I can try to exchange it.
On a related note, would a USB jig get the phone into download mode?
Damn. So pulling the battery doesn't do anything. And nothing happens when you plug USB into wall charger or computer? A USB jig may be your only hope. I guess just for giggles you could plug into computer and just see if Odin will recognise the phone but I seriously doubt it.
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Damn. So pulling the battery doesn't do anything. And nothing happens when you plug USB into wall charger or computer? A USB jig may be your only hope. I guess just for giggles you could plug into computer and just see if Odin will recognise the phone but I seriously doubt it.
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Yeah, it's not responding to anything.
What was your battery at before you flashed?
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What was your battery at before you flashed?
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I think it was about 75%.
I'll buy it for 50.
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how does it hard brick. i soft brick it all time. how does hard brick happen. breaks? got a warranty? say lost it if so. if see you rooted it your warranty voids
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do you have a car charger? A few of us have accidentally got into download mode by powering up while holding volume up +down while plugged into a car charger or wall charger. (More so on a car charger) Worth a shot
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I really don't know if this will help, but when I rooted my phone, for some reason I could only get it into down load by holding ONLY the volume DOWN & power... it can't get worse than it is now. Give it a try.
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If you really are hard bricked a jig won't get you into download mode. And if the key combo+insert USB isn't working then a jig isn't likely to work either.
But hey, might as well try. Make your own though, it's really easy. All you need are three 100k ohm resistors (cost = $.75), some electrical tape, and a micro usb cable you can cut up (some people claim to be able to do it without cutting up a cable but I couldn't make it work).
I hard bricked not too long ago, so I know how much it sucks. Good luck!
I just hard bricked my skyrocket
xxsicknessxx said:
how does it hard brick. i soft brick it all time. how does hard brick happen. breaks? got a warranty? say lost it if so. if see you rooted it your warranty voids
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I was doing soft bricks left and right. It took simply one more flash to turn it into a hard brick. I didn't it out of sequence and i did it with goo.manager. I think one should stay away from automatic flashs. Do these things one step at a time. I think it flashed the particion and that's why it's hard brick.
But i don't understand, why can't i get any response from the phone, not even a vibrate etc.
What to do now with a hard brick phone?
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I was doing soft bricks left and right. It took simply one more flash to turn it into a hard brick. I didn't it out of sequence and i did it with goo.manager. I think one should stay away from automatic flashs. Do these things one step at a time. I think it flashed the particion and that's why it's hard brick.
But i don't understand, why can't i get any response from the phone, not even a vibrate etc.
What to do now with a hard brick phone?
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Jtag. Google mobiltechvidoes.com
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I had the same issue. I pulled the battery out when it was in download mode. [Didn't odin or flash or anything] The phone would not turn back on. It showed in device manager as qhusb_dload or something. After a lot of research and trying everything I could, I sent it to mobiletechvideos and he was able to get it working again with a jtag. Had to suffer with an old iPhone for a week but got my skyrocket back and was flashed stock. The phone hard bricked on me again flashing a rom a couple days later. I ended up buying a broken skyrocket and swapping out the mainboard and has worked great ever since.
From my understanding [ and I could be wrong] but just flashing a rom through recovery won't hard brick your phone because I don't believe it touches the boot area. I believe my issues were from some sort of hardware issue as opposed to software.
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Xanoschild said:
From my understanding [ and I could be wrong] but just flashing a rom through recovery won't hard brick your phone because I don't believe it touches the boot area. I believe my issues were from some sort of hardware issue as opposed to software.
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your understanding is wrong!
True
I also hardbrick my phone flashing a bad kernel. Got a new one because I had warrant. Dont waste more time and send it to Jtag repair if you dont have warranty. And if you have, dont mention you were playing with the software. Good luck on that!
josuemolina2000 said:
I also hardbrick my phone flashing a bad kernel. Got a new one because I had warrant. Dont waste more time and send it to Jtag repair if you dont have warranty. And if you have, dont mention you were playing with the software. Good luck on that!
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I hard bricked my infuse with Odin flashing cwm and su pack, don't know what went wrong, bit I bricked it so hard that when it was sent back to Samsung(through Rogers warranty) they couldn't even figure out how to fix it and they just sent me the skyrocket I'm using now lol. Nice free upgrade
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Hi guys, here is the story. I have a rooted Skyrocket running CM9. Yesterday morning, the screen just went black. Can't see a thing. I can still receive calls, the phone is functional. Went to the AT&T store, they called their warranty department, and it was decided I'd be sent a refurbished Skyrocket. I have to send my old one in. I'm worried about my warranty being voided since I am rooted. Is this a valid concern? Will AT&T being able to determine if I am rooted with the screen not being functional? Is there a program I can use on my computer to view my screen so I can unroot my phone? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hi guys, here is the story. I have a rooted Skyrocket running CM9. Yesterday morning, the screen just went black. Can't see a thing. I can still receive calls, the phone is functional. Went to the AT&T store, they called their warranty department, and it was decided I'd be sent a refurbished Skyrocket. I have to send my old one in. I'm worried about my warranty being voided since I am rooted. Is this a valid concern? Will AT&T being able to determine if I am rooted with the screen not being functional? Is there a program I can use on my computer to view my screen so I can unroot my phone? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hold the vol- and power button to put the phone into download mode and wait luke 30 seconds then press vol+ to get into the actual download mode then use odin to go back to stock.
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The screen doesn't work then you have nothing to worry about. I sent in a rooted SR that was stuck on Samsung logo and couldn't get into download mode and never had an issue.
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I used to work for at&t and can tell you that we don't care if the phone is rooted
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They just want their phone back. Plain and simple. It's not the firmware, is the hardware they want back.
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Adb reboot download then Odin stock.
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They just want their phone back. Plain and simple. It's not the firmware, is the hardware they want back.
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Playing Sudoku ... Turned it off and 20 minutes later turned it on .. TRIED to turn it on. It is not even a week old. I haven't rooted ... holding down I haven't made any changed to the software. Tried holding the start button and sound up but it does nothing ... HELP ! Do I need to return it.
diane
Are you getting the battery symbol when charging?
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Are you getting the battery symbol when charging?
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When I plug it in to begin charging i dont get the battery charging icon .... Completely black screen.
Take it back under warranty... It's not worth the hassles of screwing around trying fixes that may or may not void your warranty when in the end you will use warranty anyway...
Just remember though, there's always a few lemons in any product line... Just bad luck if you get it...
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Take it back under warranty... It's not worth the hassles of screwing around trying fixes that may or may not void your warranty when in the end you will use warranty anyway...
Just remember though, there's always a few lemons in any product line... Just bad luck if you get it...
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sucks to be me today !!
Charge it overnight. Make sure that the plug you are plugged into is not turned off at the wall switch or try a different outlet.
Then push and hold the power button for a really long time.
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The exact same thing happened to me this morning. Tonight I'll try what Mitchellvii suggests and hope it works.
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What I'm concerned about is that my battery was not dead. It had plenty of charge still in it. It was working fine earlier this morning. I turned it off and then later on in the morning tried to turn it on and nothing.
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Well, charging it overnight and holding the power button for a long time did not work. Its still dead.
And on top of that I can't find my receipt.!!!
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Alright, traded in the old one for a new one.
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Very sorry to hear about your tablets dieing at such a early age in there life. All tech stuff does have a slight number of defective devices.
Good luck with replacement
and be thankful its not a google sold nexus 7 waiting over a month for a replacement fiinally give up.still waiting for My money back. 2 bad devices in a roll with different build numbers.
Great upgrade to this device im very happy :good:
I installed a wrong zip file accidentaly and now lg l3 won't boot, boot into recovery, charge or even light up. Please help me. I had latest cm9 installed and my warranty is void! how do i get this fixed ASAP as it is not my phone!!!!
Wow.
Remove the battery, press and hold the power button for a few seconds, replace the battery, plug into A/C. Anything? If no, try another charger.
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Wow.
Remove the battery, press and hold the power button for a few seconds, replace the battery, plug into A/C. Anything? If no, try another charger.
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Tried everything! The problem is that the zip i flashed wasn't even a rom and i can't boot into boot loader again!
What did you flash?
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Your warranty isn't void. This looks like a hard brick and if you send it in along with a message like "it just shut down on me on today" then they will replace it
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Your warranty isn't void. This looks like a hard brick and if you send it in along with a message like "it just shut down on me on today" then they will replace it
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The warrany says it is void if iI tried to install any unofficial software on it, but as it doesn't even light up ,the zip I installed turned out to be a swap support enabler for a certain device, i think they won't even notice it. Will I get a free replacement for the phone, the motherboard or will I have to pay for a new motherboard?
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The warrany says it is void if iI tried to install any unofficial software on it, but as it doesn't even light up ,the zip I installed turned out to be a swap support enabler for a certain device, i think they won't even notice it. Will I get a free replacement for the phone, the motherboard or will I have to pay for a new motherboard?
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Depends on the warranty. What I meant is they won't notice, so yeah just go in and act like you have no idea why it just stopped working.
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Depends on the warranty. What I meant is they won't notice, so yeah just go in and act like you have no idea why it just stopped working.
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Have you tried it, does it really work?
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Have you tried it, does it really work?
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Once again, it depends on the warranty and they might make you pay a deductible. However, as long as its not water damaged, then they should grant you whatever the warranty covers.
IMO, I don't see how it could fail if it won't boot up, but if you want some confidence in doing this, I once read a post on xda a while back about how a user went in and got a replacement even though when it booted up the boot animation was a modificated HTC quietly brillliant bootanimation and said "quietly rooted android" where he proceeded to act like he had no idea what that meant when questioned about it
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I don't think you should get your phone replaced for free by tricking the service centre guys. It was your fault for being careless and flashing a wrong zip.
Well, as its a hard brick, I don't think there will be any method to fix...(maybe there..but don't know )
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I don't think you should get your phone replaced for free by tricking the service centre guys. It was your fault for being careless and flashing a wrong zip.
Well, as its a hard brick, I don't think there will be any method to fix...(maybe there..but don't know )
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Trust me... more than enough people do it. And they actually have to replace it... because they have no proof it was ever rooted
(Definition of hard brick is pretty much no way to fix it)
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I have had my S3 for about two months now and it has been rooted the whole time. The stock ROM finally annoyed me enough to try a new ROM. I installed Rootbox then Pacman, but they both just sat on the boot screen for about 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and gave up. I tried installing MIUI which went well but as soon as I hit the 'restart' button, the screen went blank and now the phone won't turn on. The battery is fine, I tried the known good one out of my wife's S3.
Is there any hope here? Any chance I will be able to get it swapped out at Verizon? Am I just f'ed?
Just for the record because I know it will be asked: I am have installed many ROMs on my old Droid X and I did follow directions for these installs. MIUI even had the wizard. I do have a nandroid but since I cannot turn the phone on at all, I can't get to it. I cannot get to download mode or react when I plug the charger in. I can't even get the thing to vibrate when holding down the power button...as far as I can tell it is COMPLETELY dead.
Thanks for the input.
Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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i fried a gsiii and got a replacement frpm big red. just tell them the OTA did it. if it can't turn on they can't check what you've done until it's too late. bring it in asap and have a sob story about how the update destroyed your phone... it worked 2 days after the jelly bean update for me.
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Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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No dice on both fronts.
Thanks Bear, that is pretty much the plan so far.
Any response booting into download mode?
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Does the screen flash for a second or respond for any amount of time when you try charging it with or without the battery? Our is there no response at all when you're trying to charge it,?
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No problem. They will give you a replacement as long as there is no physical damage to the phone... Good luck!!
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Did you flash a rom for the i9300 version of the phone and not the i535? I did that and hard bricked my first s3.
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