If it ain't broke...see if it'll go faster. That's what I tried, BUT ended up
If it ain't broke...fix it 'til it is!
Android 4.2.2
It's rooted with Vroot, has SuperSU and Titanium Backup Pro, shows rooted.
Had ADB working, tablet taking commands.
I first tried to put in CWM recovery for the HSG1279, supposed to be the same tablet, just bigger screen. I don't even know now whether THAT'S true or not.
Started in recovery mode, but was just stock, so I tried arctools to put in a generic Rockchip CWM 6.0.3.1. That's when things started going sideways. The install hung (imagine that!). The arctools had a forced restart of some kind, so I used that. When I got back to my home screen (whew!), I used Titanium backup to see what recovery mode looked like. The tablet went dark, and would not power on. I did the paper clip trick, which got it started, but did NOT wipe anything out, so not a hard reset. Any time after that when I tried to restart in recovery mode, the hard shutdown with the clip was required. Yesterday afternoon, I went off to work for about 3 hours, leaving the tablet on, but in standby. When I came back, the tablet was dark and no amount of paper clipping would help. It would not recognize a charge. Not being one to duck a fight, I opened the case and unsoldered the black (-) wire at the PC board. The battery measured some voltage, but I didn't notice how much, about 1/4 on the 25v. scale. I soldered it back on, put it back together without any further incident. It sill does just what it was doing...nothing. I have noticed that when it's plugged into my PC's USB port, and I reset with the clip, Unknown Device shows up in my PC's Devices And Printers list. When I unplug the cable, I get the stock Windows "be-boop" USB removal sound. When I plug it back in, I get a short "boo-boo-boop" sound. That's where it is now. Anyone have any ideas on getting it going again? For me, no more trying files that aren't made specifically for this oddball tablet. This has been a fairly expensive lesson in that.
Thanks for any help.
~Bob~
Hi,
Honestly, I think you've made a mess for yourself. Lol
And flashing things made for anything but your specific device is a bad idea. Almost always it will lead to big trouble.
And the hardware tinkering is high risk too.
Anyway, we are entitled to do what we please with our devices, so not judging. Just advice.
There is nothing useful on XDA for your device that I can find, so you would need to ask for help... But you may have passed that point already....
>Android Development and Hacking>Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting.
Good luck!
Any use posting this to the General Discussion?
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I think I may have bricked my phone. I flashed the wrong clockwordmod,with ROM manager,I accidentally hit the wrong phone type. I followed advice I found another forum,to take out the battery,boot into recovery,and then flash the correct clockworkmod. But when I went to boot into recovery,I discovered,Lo and Behold,the damn thing wont boot. I have a a Samsung Galaxy Prevail (Im sorry I couldnt find the forum for it.)
Im wondering,is there anyway at all to fix this? I would love it if there is a solution,Anything,any ideas. All are welcome,please and thank you.
You say it won't boot, does it not turn on at all?! or does it just get stuck at the android logo? if it gets stuck at the android logo you should be able to boot into fastboot, connect to the PC and flash recovery via there.
Wont turn on at all... Sorry I didnt mention that,Ive tried taking out the battery,then holding the volume up and power at the same time,no luck,just holding power,nothing,Power and home,home and camera,etc...
Nothing is turning my phone on. It wont boot at all,its just a black screen. I plugged it into the charger,same thing.
tokiogal92 said:
Wont turn on at all... Sorry I didnt mention that,Ive tried taking out the battery,then holding the volume up and power at the same time,no luck,just holding power,nothing,Power and home,home and camera,etc...
Nothing is turning my phone on. It wont boot at all,its just a black screen. I plugged it into the charger,same thing.
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Hate to break it to you but if there is no life coming from it, not turning on into any mode, don't think there is much you can do...
I assumed as much,but I just wanted to be 100% before I gave in and bought a new phone. Thanks though.
Did you try to turn it on by USB cable? Hold Volume UP and plug in the USB cable that will be connected to your PC. If not, try other combinations, like Volume DOWN, HOME and POWER.
No,I hadnt tried the USB cable method actually. Sadly,it didnt work. I have been trying the other button-combinations,nothing. My phone wont even light up when i put it on the charger,it just stays on the same black screen. I havent seen anything but the black screen since I originally removed the battery to install a new clockworkmod.
I've had a similar situation happen to me. You probably mucked up your android OS badly. And for those who don't know, without a proper android OS on your phone, the device can not charge from a standard wall charger or something like this. I've seen people tear a USB cable down and manually charge it like that.
You're battery was probably close to death, and if it wasn't, then something happened that drained it quickly. So try stripping a USB cable and then try turning it on.
I had an issue with my Sensation going back a few months, I was restoring it to stock, when the phone crashed (plenty of battery), and since then the screen does not display anything.
I did some fairly in depth investigation into it, and it turned out that it's a hardware rom issue, and apparently it is something that is repairable by HTC. I would assume Samsung would be the same. But, tbh I'm not sure how Samsung would respond and if they would be able to assist you...
Sorry for your loss!
Its usually pretty tough to reallyyy brick a phone. Similar to a zombie, however I do not recommend shooting or taking a chainsaw to your phone.
Try this take the galaxy plug it in usb into a computer.
This Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252
Download the jar file. Install when it asks for drivers install the samsung composite run it and if it works (who knows) ull at least be booted into download mode.
If you've already tried it eh if not
Good luck.
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Like to start off saying hello, great to be here great amounts of information.
I Have me a Huawei U8800-51 (Impulse 4G).
I Just got the one used. Rooted it, and got around to working on it to get Gingerbread on it. It all worked out great.
It worked fine for 3 Days suddenly i decide to reboot it. it shut off but never came back on. Battery was fully charged.
Removing battery for an hour solved nothing. Attempting to go into debug (Vol + & - with power held down) or CW (Vol + With Power held down) resulted in nothing. The phone always when off would turn on display battery charging when connected to power. no this dose not happen.
I still think the phone is drawing power from the battery in this state because the phone would get a little worm like normal.
I talked to someone that ran into a similar issue with a different phone he once had. He Spoke that he had to download a program which was posted about on XDA, which allowed him to power on the phone by forcing the ports open when plugged into USB.
Thing is, he cant remember the name. So I hope for a little help with this. right now im stone broke so i cant afford to buy any mod cables. like JIGs or anything. If a certain cable is needed whats with the cable that makes it different? (If i have too ill rip bits from other old electronics to find a match and attach it to a old spare cable.
I think the problem with the one is related to the changes i made and something must of been buggy.
Even know i got the phone cheap and used. i hate to just ended up with a $120 Paperweight.
Worked all like new when i got it, nothing wrong with it, not even a mark on it.
Feel free to give me a answer even if you have to have Linux to do it. i got both Windows and Linux on my system.
Thanks in advance.
As the title says.
Thinking of getting this device on the cheap. I have a Moto factory cable that i've used to flash stock firmware onto a couple different devices.
Would that same cable work on this device to get it into fastboot?
Are there any cases of completely hard bricked devices?
Also, if any of you experts know some questions i might want to ask the guy, I'm all ears! Thanks!
Markyzz said:
As the title says.
Thinking of getting this device on the cheap. I have a Moto factory cable that i've used to flash stock firmware onto a couple different devices.
Would that same cable work on this device to get it into fastboot?
Are there any cases of complete hard bricked devices?
Also, if any of you experts know some questions i might want to ask the guy, I'm all ears! Thanks!
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You can use the moto factory cable on the xoom but that just gives it power to fastboot.
You can have a xoom be hard bricked. If you plug it in and it shows up as a APX device it is hard bricked. (i own one that's sits in the drawer for spare parts for it's replacement) The charge light will still come on.
What type of xoom is it a (wifi 3g/4g family edition)
You should ask what caused it to brick?
was he rooted?
If you buy it post here and I can give a one click restore for it. AI have it for most versions of the xoom.
Be Sure...
Before you buy it I would recommend getting as much information as possible from the seller as this device may be beyond repair. If the device can still be recognized in fast boot then you should be fine.
if it is a 3g/4g xoom you might want to get the esn/meid number and check with verizon if it is clean.
If the bootloader is damaged it is of no use other than spare parts. You must at the very least be able to get to fast boot. If it is not recognised when plugged into the USB there is nothing to be done without serious hardware hacking.
I have one just like that in a box. It is rare, but it happens. It will not even flicker when powered up - nothing.
Grege50 said:
If the bootloader is damaged it is of no use other than spare parts. You must at the very least be able to get to fast boot. If it is not recognised when plugged into the USB there is nothing to be done without serious hardware hacking.
I have one just like that in a box. It is rare, but it happens. It will not even flicker when powered up - nothing.
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This morning while loading a webpage (20% of battery life left) my MZ601 just froze, didn't respond to any screen or button presses, slowly went to sleep and has resisted all attempts to start since then. Even hooked up to the charger for the last hour, it still doesn't respond no matter what buttons I press, completely blank, no lights, nada...
I'm guessing it's a dead parrot, has anyone else had a similar Xoom death?
EDIT: Just found a more appropriate thread, ignore...
Hi,
I was following the instructions at rootmyandroid dot org/how-to-root-unroot-samsung-galaxy-young.html (sorry the forum won't allow me to post a direct link) to root my GT-S6310N, specifically the part after "rooting the GT-S6310N". The rest of the article talks about just S6310 without the "N", so I thought that'd be the instructions I should follow. Above it it also says "Only For Samsung Galaxy Young S6301 Owners", so it might have been the wrong process after all..?
Regardless, as per the instructions, I installed Odin 3.07, booted into Download Mode, ran Odin, and it reported a success (see attached screenshot). The device then booted as normal on its own, and when done, I did a normal shutdown, and booted into Recovery Mode. At this point I realized I don't have a microSD card in the device for the "UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.41.zip" file, so I selected "reboot" and the device again booted normally.
At this point I opened up the plastic back cover of the phone, and to my dismay, the battery fell out. I didn't think anything of it, and proceeded to look for a microSD card I could use. I didn't in fact find one, so I thought I'd boot the device up and figure out something else. But after carefully placing the battery and back cover back on, the device won't power up anymore. It won't vibrate, the display doesn't come on, nothing. If I plug it into a power outlet it doesn't show any signs of life. None of the Download/Recovery mode key combos work, either. Odin doesn't react to the device being plugged in in any way.
I guess I'm already willing to accept I managed to brick the device, but since I've successfully rooted 3 or 4 ones before, I'd like to at least understand what I did wrong. I've been under the impression that while many things can (and will) go wrong during rooting/CWM installation, most situations are recoverable (I've gotten devices e.g. stuck to a boot loop before).
At first I was convinced there must have been some physical damage done to the phone/battery when I opened the back cover, but after a careful inspection I can't see anything wrong with it. I've tried putting it back together at least 5 times. Also it should be noted that the battery fell out onto a soft couch, so I'm pretty sure it's not damaged in any way.
Any pointers welcome as to what went wrong and/or something I could still try. :/
First post. Tried searching for the desired info, to no avail. Braving any potential flame spray and asking anyway. Besides... this may entertain you. I've also posted this same question to a couple other forums, to no avail.
I have a P3113 that I had on me when I was caught in a rain storm. I was wearing a rain coat, and the tab was in one of the pockets. The pocket was zipped closed, so I thought the tab would be safe. It wasn't.
I did the regular stuff of turning it completely off right away, then put it in a bag full of rice for about 16 hours or so. When I tried to restart it, no dice. About a day later, it did turn on. It stayed on for about an hour letting me play Fruit Ninja. Then it shut itself down on low battery. I couldn't get it to charge at all during this period. I left it on the charger over night... didn't charge. At that point, I sort of wrote it off, but didn't pitch it.
Fast forward about 2 years. I get bored one night, pop the back off and wire the outermost wires to a freshly charged 3.7V battery from an OG Droid phone. Hit the power button... and it booted up!
While it was running, it wouldn't get very good WiFi, even sitting next to my router. It wouldn't open the Play Store app, and when I managed to log into Play through the browser, Play wouldn't recognize the device. That kept me from being able to download any app updates or any new apps.
Then the machine started running v e r y s l o w. At that point, I decided to throw caution to the wind (I did, after all write this thing off about 2 years ago) and do a factory reset.
Now, when I have the device in recovery mode, and I tell it to reboot, it will shut off and never turn back on. If I manually power on with the power button, it starts up in recovery mode.
The device isn't rooted, and I can't root it at all. At this point, I'm not even sure where the data cable is, not to mention it would never interface with a PC after the initial incident. I have, still, tried to do "apply update from external storage," using a few different roms I have found here and elsewhere. Most recently, I used Tab2Lite_P3113_RC2.zip, but it failed at about 75% complete and gave me a "signature verification failed" error message. In fact, I get the same message for every rom I've tried.
Anyone have any idea at all how to recover this thing? I'm only curious if I can get it running just to play games. I plan on getting a Tab 4 8.0 in March.
So you are using a different battery?
shsagnik said:
So you are using a different battery?
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Electrically speaking, I'm running 2 batteries in parallel. The OG Droid battery is wired to the factory Tab battery. I can disconnect the Droid battery and the Tab still runs, but still doesn't reboot as it should.
When I select reboot, it powers down, and stays that way until I push the power button. Then it boots right into recovery mode.'
Sorry I can't help you as I don't have requisite knowledge
Sounds like you have a Frankenstein tab,you need a new tab. Time to put it out of its misery.
Pp.