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....i think? Running bamf ginger remix and the latest OTA radio not the leaks. I fixed my permissions and noticed my 4g kept going in and out. The phone got warm so i rebooted and got the splash screen, then it hung and rebooted two more times before booting normal. I literally freaked out for a second. Phone seems ok now. Should i be worried? What could cause this?
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....i think? Running bamf ginger remix and the latest OTA radio not the leaks. I fixed my permissions and noticed my 4g kept going in and out. The phone got warm so i rebooted and got the splash screen, then it hung and rebooted two more times before booting normal. I literally freaked out for a second. Phone seems ok now. Should i be worried? What could cause this?
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Sounds like the radio to me. That's the thing that will suck up power the worst if it can't get it's crap together finding a signal, even to the point of heating that thing up. Mine starts cooking if I tether it and watch movies on it. Never had boot loops though, and I use the 1.70 radio for weeks.
im glad i have full insurance on this phone in case. so far, so good today. in case i do brick is there a way to set the phone back to stock before returning it?
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im glad i have full insurance on this phone in case. so far, so good today. in case i do brick is there a way to set the phone back to stock before returning it?
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In that event, I say "Brick? What brick? It fell out of my pocket and sank to the bottom of a VERY deep lake." I've never had Asurion ask me for a phone back. The whole "My CRAZY ex stole it!" worked just fine.
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In that event, I say "Brick? What brick? It fell out of my pocket and sank to the bottom of a VERY deep lake." I've never had Asurion ask me for a phone back. The whole "My CRAZY ex stole it!" worked just fine.
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yeah but there has to be a way to set it to stock in case right?
How do you "almost brick" a phone ? How does one know it was "almost" ?
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yeah but there has to be a way to set it to stock in case right?
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I think if there was a way to set things back to stock, you wouldn't actually be bricked.
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How do you "almost brick" a phone ? How does one know it was "almost" ?
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it started to endless reboot, that's what people say happened when they bricked.
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I think if there was a way to set things back to stock, you wouldn't actually be bricked.
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if im correct i thought there was a way to do it. ill have to do some checking. if i had to bring it in, if they found out i was rooted it would void my warranty.
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if im correct i thought there was a way to do it. ill have to do some checking. if i had to bring it in, if they found out i was rooted it would void my warranty.
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I don't really know what to describe the "brick situation" we were having back in the day with the first leaked gingerbread as. Technically, it's not REALLY a brick because many of them could be fixed. It was more of a boot-loop issue. That whole situation muddied the waters of what defines a brick, but before that I always understood a brick to be a completely useless device beyond any help. Whether it could be powered on to view the hboot S-on or S-off state, I don't know because thankfully I've never had that problem.
There's always the option of electrocuting it until it won't power on though. Take an electronic lighter, remover the piezo igniter, and use that to zap sensitive parts of it's guts until it never worked again. That's like a few thousand volts. Not much inside there will survive that for long. (Yes, I really do sit around thinking about how to destroying things in undetectable ways.)
it's funny because everytime i hear about someone getting insurance for their cell phone i think "lol.. sucker!" but broke 2 phones so far and had to "craigslist" like crazy to find replacements at decent prices.
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if im correct i thought there was a way to do it. ill have to do some checking. if i had to bring it in, if they found out i was rooted it would void my warranty.
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When the boot loop of death thing happened people were still able to get into hboot. So from there you would just flash an RUU and get back to s-on. If it truly is the same issue people were having the phone will be s-on after the RUU, but it will still just bootloop. If you are using the patched hboot I don't know if you would be able go get back because I don't know if fastboot was functioning.
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I finally managed to do it. I officially bricked my Infuse. No clue how I did it but it's finally borked for good. Cant access download mode when I try nothing happens. Used 4 different computers, 5 different cords and approx 23 different USB slots. 3 different batteries(just incase it was a bad battery) Nothing haha. Infuse is completely dead!.... My backup infuse is pretty messed up as well (screen is cracked all to hell) This happened after I Heimdall'd my phone phone to clean the slate. It booted up, then bootlopped once then just didnt turn on again.
i would try letting it sit with the battery out overnight then giving it a shot again, also try differnt tools like gtg unbrick
also try using a usb jig
(i once messed mine up badly enough that when you put in in download mode it was a black screen with red green and blue dots on it, using gtg unbrick fixed it for me !
fingers crossed that itll come back to life for ya.
if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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also try you could always send it in under warranty
The_Zodiac said:
i would try letting it sit with the battery out overnight then giving it a shot again, also try differnt tools like gtg unbrick
also try using a usb jig
fingers crossed that itll come back to life for ya.
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The batteries been out for a bit now gonna leave it out and put it in tomorrow see if maybe that does something. If anything theres a couple Infuse 4G's on Craigslist for pretty cheap. And if this one doesnt end up working, I'll throw it up on there for parts, might be useful to someone.
Also I dont have an actuall plan with AT&T so thats a no go haha
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if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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Yeah, after paying a $200 deductable. That's how much it would have been to replace my stolen infuse even under warranty.
Try a pizza taco sometime, if you don't know what it is, look it up then
Dont give up hope... if you didnt flash any bootloaders i dont think its bricked
this looks almost like what happened to me last night..
Odined to stock only to find phone booting up to nothing just a black
screen... i thought i was done for good but i kept trying and one of the times
odin managed to see the device...
even with a completaly black screen it still booted up to "download mode"
even tho i couldnt see that particular screen
i ran odin and it booted up fine
keep trying buddy dont lose hope
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Dont give up hope... if you didnt flash any bootloaders i dont think its bricked
this looks almost like what happened to me last night..
Odined to stock only to find phone booting up to nothing just a black
screen... i thought i was done for good but i kept trying and one of the times
odin managed to see the device...
even with a completaly black screen it still booted up to "download mode"
even tho i couldnt see that particular screen
i ran odin and it booted up fine
keep trying buddy dont lose hope
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Hehe I wont give up just yet. Honestly I think it's something wrong in the Hardware of the phone. I'm gonna take it apart later and have a look see. Might be able to replace the problem with a part from my old Infuse
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Hehe I wont give up just yet. Honestly I think it's something wrong in the Hardware of the phone. I'm gonna take it apart later and have a look see. Might be able to replace the problem with a part from my old Infuse
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if it is that might as well take the whole motherboard and switch it out right??
if you know how to do all that of course
but good luck to you and hopefully its nothing major
warranty is different than insurance. even if you buy it off contract or from someone else, you should still have the warranty. they provide 1 year for all branded phones. its only been on sale for 11 months so everyone should be under warranty.
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if it is that might as well take the whole motherboard and switch it out right??
if you know how to do all that of course
but good luck to you and hopefully its nothing major
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Yeah thats pretty much what I was gonna do if there is something wrong with this ones motherboard xD Plus I wouldn't mind the camera off my old one cause on this one the lens is scratched
MaliciousIntent69 said:
Yeah thats pretty much what I was gonna do if there is something wrong with this ones motherboard xD Plus I wouldn't mind the camera off my old one cause on this one the lens is scratched
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Nice!!
Win win situation!!
Got impatient so I switched out motherboards.... haha. got it up and running now. Weird as hell though I don't see how Using Heimdall would damage my motherboard? I highly doubt it was heimdall. but... who knows
But now I finally have a camera that doesn't take ****ty pics haha
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Got impatient so I switched out motherboards.... haha. got it up and running now. Weird as hell though I don't see how Using Heimdall would damage my motherboard? I highly doubt it was heimdall. but... who knows
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glad its up and running
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glad its up and running
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Mee too now time to test the new build of ICS that jt released Working camera equalls DD for me
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Mee too now time to test the new build of ICS that jt released Working camera equalls DD for me
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its running great!! Switched from Trebuchet Launcher to Nova (found in Google Play) and its buttery smooth
camera works flawlessly..
front facing camera is zoomed in for some reason but i dont really use it so
who cares lol
but i think for a DD is good
at least for me haha
If your cracked screen infuse still works then I would just swap out the internals. Should be easy enough. I did it to my wife's phone.. screen cracked and we had an identical backup phone that my daughter played with. Swapped out the boards and all was well.
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I thought I did something similar but then tried a different method of reverting back to stock & it worked.
It wasn't going into download mode either and the screen was all pixilated but it worked. Maybe try a different method of reverting back to stock (gtg unbrick)
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The Jack of Clubs said:
warranty is different than insurance. even if you buy it off contract or from someone else, you should still have the warranty. they provide 1 year for all branded phones. its only been on sale for 11 months so everyone should be under warranty.
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Yup..what jack said. Someone else went that route too
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Hi please help me with this I just dropped my phone while in the incipio SILICRYLIC ( its supposed to protect the phone ). Now the screen wont turn on but the button touch sensitive buttons still turns on sometimes. I think screen is broken since there is a crack on the top left corner . I am running jblparisi cm9 mod rom based on entropy's cm9 release 6/08 or 6/14 i can't remember which. Is there anyway to get my phone back to stock before I take it back to the att store for warranty ? I am not sure how to get it in to download mode as it takes a while for the bottom buttons to light up when I have it plugged into the charge or computer, but I dont have drivers for it installed on the computer yet. Is there anyway for me to install the phone drivers without having to have the phone give any response ? I am afraid of the att store employee denying the warranty when he checks the phone.
Please help ! I really appreciate any feedback that you give me
If you can't get to boot....they prob can't either....are you covered by insurance?
not sure what to tell you...since it is damaged, i would make sure it won't boot....if att will replace...
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hey could you please tell me a way to get in to download mode because yhe phone would boot up and stop me at the lock screen. I just need to odin it to gtg unbrick so that att could not refuse the warranty since my phone is less that one month old
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hey could you please tell me a way to get in to download mode because yhe phone would boot up and stop me at the lock screen. I just need to odin it to gtg unbrick so that att could not refuse the warranty since my phone is less that one month old
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Read through the ISET that BigJoe has worked on very hard
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610374
but to get it into download mode:
pull battery
press and hold vol up and vol down together
insert battery
insert USB cable
wait till the home soft buttons light up.
If you want you can make a jig to get into download mode. (google it)
another thing you could try is pulling it apart and see if the ribbon wire for the screen came loose from the motherboard. Its not hard a total of 8 screws theres videos on youtube of it.
I presonally agree with BigJoe just make it so it wont boot
Thanks i just gtg unbricked it. It is rebooting right now
Thank you for all the help!
I am going to leave and go to att store right now and say that my phone was unresponsive this morning and i have no idea what happened to it
I will update when i get back
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Thanks i just gtg unbricked it. It is rebooting right now
Thank you for all the help!
I am going to leave and go to att store right now and say that my phone was unresponsive this morning and i have no idea what happened to it
I will update when i get back
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Glad it worked for you .....
so after one hour on the phone with customer care i was finally able to have them send me a replacement phone with free expedited shipping so should be here by monday only thing that it isnt good about it is that its a refurbished phone but as long as it works with no problems and i can still but cm9 goodness on it i am not going to complain
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so after one hour on the phone with customer care i was finally able to have them send me a replacement phone with free expedited shipping so should be here by monday only thing that it isnt good about it is that its a refurbished phone but as long as it works with no problems and i can still but cm9 goodness on it i am not going to complain
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cool beans....hope it works out for you:cyclops:
just want to update and say that my replacement phone just arrived this morning. I will try and keep it on stock for a few hours then go root and go to the oc version of entropy's cm9. And also the representative att seriously lied about the free expedited shipping, since they only shipped with regular. Oh well just really glad my phone came today. Really appreciate the large amount of work the developers on this forum put in to maintain this phone. My greatest respect goes to all of you !
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just want to update and say that my replacement phone just arrived this morning. I will try and keep it on stock for a few hours then go root and go to the oc version of entropy's cm9. And also the representative att seriously lied about the free expedited shipping, since they only shipped with regular. Oh well just really glad my phone came today. Really appreciate the large amount of work the developers on this forum put in to maintain this phone. My greatest respect goes to all of you !
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glad you got your replacement...remember check the iset page...hint link is on my signature...for the infuse...and use qkster one click for the cwm so you can flash...
yay the replacement came with gb preinstalled which means i can use the newest cwm without rainbows without upgrading to gb bootloaders on my own
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glad you got your replacement...remember check the iset page...hint link is on my signature...for the infuse...and use qkster one click for the cwm so you can flash...
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thanks without your page many people who are just starting to mess around with custom roms wouldn't know what to do
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thanks without your page many people who are just starting to mess around with custom roms wouldn't know what to do
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Thx...that is what the purpose is, to help...not my page...the whole infuse community...i just up keep it...
Greetings all! I have been a Lg optimus user for some time, being that it is my first official android phone. Sadly it was bricked and is just a very expensive paper weight now. Due to the fact that armv6 processors are becoming outdated i was considering geting a new phone, preferably an HD one, but I digress. My main problem is that I would like my LG to at least function, but I live in the Caribbean and it is out of reach of an offcial LG repair center. I very well know that it may be a lost cause but is there any advive that others can give from past experience that can help me with my present conundrum? You are well come to flame at me for this possibly inept question, as long as I can get help and move on in the mean while untill my new phone....I love the Optimus one and even so would like to have i as my little past time.:highfive:
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Greetings all! I have been a Lg optimus user for some time, being that it is my first official android phone. Sadly it was bricked and is just a very expensive paper weight now. Due to the fact that armv6 processors are becoming outdated i was considering geting a new phone, preferably an HD one, but I digress. My main problem is that I would like my LG to at least function, but I live in the Caribbean and it is out of reach of an offcial LG repair center. I very well know that it may be a lost cause but is there any advive that others can give from past experience that can help me with my present conundrum? You are well come to flame at me for this possibly inept question, as long as I can get help and move on in the mean while untill my new phone....I love the Optimus one and even so would like to have i as my little past time.:highfive:
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Does it turn on at all? If you pop the battery out, put it back in and hold Volume UP+Back+Power does it get to Emergency Mode at all? If it does you might be able to recover by flashing the original/stock firmware, follow this post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883314
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Does it turn on at all? If you pop the battery out, put it back in and hold Volume UP+Back+Power does it get to Emergency Mode at all? If it does you might be able to recover by flashing the original/stock firmware, follow this post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883314
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I've tried that a few times but to no avail... :crying:
I've held down every single button, squeezed every single part, and even shaked it a bit since some people say that it some times works. The phone is very fresh, a few months old and I haven't even taken off the screen protector yet...
I've even tried putting it to charge for some time, pressing some of the puttons while plugging in the charger or USB cable. I don't know if i can have it shipped back to the US to be fixed or otherwise.
Thanks for the input...:highfive:
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I've tried that a few times but to no avail... :crying:
I've held down every single button, squeezed every single part, and even shaked it a bit since some people say that it some times works. The phone is very fresh, a few months old and I haven't even taken off the screen protector yet...
I've even tried putting it to charge for some time, pressing some of the puttons while plugging in the charger or USB cable. I don't know if i can have it shipped back to the US to be fixed or otherwise.
Thanks for the input...:highfive:
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Well if the phone isn't turning on at all then you wont be able to flash the stock rom. I guess you havent tried flashing a new baseband or rom. You might have to go ahead and send it for fixing since it is under warranty.
How many days do you have phone bricked??? Just asking because you could have a empty battery and thats why combo its not working its a long shot i now but sometimes happy things appen...
Best of luck
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just xplain man...
u r jus telling that the fone is brickd...why don't u share the condition of the fone now...nd just xplain wht u did with it bfore getting it brickd...
ajaihs said:
u r jus telling that the fone is brickd...why don't u share the condition of the fone now...nd just xplain wht u did with it bfore getting it brickd...
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All I think I have to say about that is ...KDZ updater...During the update I got an error repeatedly so I unplug and plug it in again but it didn't work so I (this is the part that I regret the most) I just unplugged the battery and tried to do it again, and thats how I ended up like this...the point is I know it's bricked I just wanted to know if I could have it fixed without being in the USA.
Try this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324105 :fingers-crossed:
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.
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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.......
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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 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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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.
Bricked my phone
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 ?
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Do you think changing the motherdrive will work ?
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Yup..will work..
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Yes, it will work.
QUOTE=rejijoseph14;31737448]Do you think changing the motherdrive will work ?[/QUOTE]
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!!!