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I was updating to froyo using the Odin installer and for some reason it stalled. I waited 10 minutes and nothing happened, it was stuck on DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!! aaand being the genius that I am reset the Odin installer and phone...now I get nothing. The phone is completely unresponsive, no ! screen or anything.
Am I screwed?
edit: sorry for posting this in the wrong forum, please move to Q&A if a mod gets a chance.
close EVERYTHING, take everything out of your phone (sim, battery, and sd card.) then put the battery in but DONT TURN IT ON. have your usb cable ready. hold the two volume buttons down, and then plug in your usb cable to the phone (it should be plugged into your comp) WITHOUT PRESSING ANY POWER BUTTONS. if you get back into downloader mode, you are fine and can then restore using odin or the i click restore
hmmm, well try this take out the battery sim card and ex sd if u got one, open odin, put the battery back in and plug the usb in while holdin the volume buttons, aka download mode... sometimes it doesnt work the first time just try it a couple more...
I did this with my phone. If nothing comes on screen when you plug in the USB cable and entering recovery and download mode don't work, then take thye phone back to AT&T, they accepted my bricked phone back. Just act dumb like you have no clue why it's broken.
I have a similar issue, however I can still get into the downloader..but it just hangs when restoring on factoryfs.rfs....
Any suggestions on that?
hazard96 said:
close EVERYTHING, take everything out of your phone (sim, battery, and sd card.) then put the battery in but DONT TURN IT ON. have your usb cable ready. hold the two volume buttons down, and then plug in your usb cable to the phone (it should be plugged into your comp) WITHOUT PRESSING ANY POWER BUTTONS. if you get back into downloader mode, you are fine and can then restore using odin or the i click restore
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I cannot explain how much you have just helped me at this moment. I did NOT expect this to work at all, and it did.
thank you, thank you THANK YOU truly
haha well seeing as you're new...
Welcome to the warm hearts at xda-developers
Have I mentioned how good it feels to see resolvable brick threads after the JH7 OTA disaster?
texasryno said:
I have a similar issue, however I can still get into the downloader..but it just hangs when restoring on factoryfs.rfs....
Any suggestions on that?
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This happened to me as well, is there anything I can do?
jonttu said:
This happened to me as well, is there anything I can do?
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Try a computer reboot / different USB port... sometimes USB gets interrupted when its flashing in big files like the factory.rfs
Zilch25 said:
Try a computer reboot / different USB port... sometimes USB gets interrupted when its flashing in big files like the factory.rfs
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Thank you, had to switch the usb to one that was directly on the board, again much gratitude
It seems my phone is fully bricked, I tryed the download method with taking out everything. Nothing turns on, its completley blackscreened. I did have it working, but now its completley unresponsive.
mrbloog said:
It seems my phone is fully bricked, I tryed the download method with taking out everything. Nothing turns on, its completley blackscreened. I did have it working, but now its completley unresponsive.
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Are you doing the method where you remove the battery first, hold the volume buttons (without power) and plug into USB? That *SHOULD* get you into download mode- if not, maybe check a different USB port.
Up and running, with Froyo to boot! Thanks again and good luck to those with problems. Thanks for the welcome again and I've made a donation in the site for saving my ass $500
HELP please HELP !!
I upgrade to Froyo and then wanted to go back to 2.1. The problem now I can only boot into download mode, but I tried to load other roms (one click, odin i9000 and Froy) and nothing happens! need help please!
dude, i love you for this.
monkas said:
I upgrade to Froyo and then wanted to go back to 2.1. The problem now I can only boot into download mode, but I tried to load other roms (one click, odin i9000 and Froy) and nothing happens! need help please!
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Can you clarify? Did you successfully upgrade to froyo or incur and error somewhere in the process. When you say that "nothing happens" what exactly does that mean?
What does ODIN show when you try to upload?
vsboxerboy1 said:
Can you clarify? Did you successfully upgrade to froyo or incur and error somewhere in the process. When you say that "nothing happens" what exactly does that mean?
What does ODIN show when you try to upload?
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Upgrade to Froyo successfully. Want to go back to 2.1 after using One Click Odin JF6 rom, it never ends. Following on from here, probe with OCD Froyo, eclair, odin and any rom could do to finish flashing. He stays in zImage and shows the status bar.
Any idea I can try?
monkas said:
Upgrade to Froyo successfully. Want to go back to 2.1 after using One Click Odin JF6 rom, it never ends. Following on from here, probe with OCD Froyo, eclair, odin and any rom could do to finish flashing. He stays in zImage and shows the status bar.
Any idea I can try?
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This may seem elementary but I noticed your tag says your location says Buenos Aires. Are you sure you have a Captivate and not an i9000?
JOe K. said:
This may seem elementary but I noticed your tag says your location says Buenos Aires. Are you sure you have a Captivate and not an i9000?
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Guys, good news! I recovered the phone and install Froyo. My error was that it came to how to download and then disconnect the USB and reconnected.
Joe K Captivate works perfect in Argentina because it uses the same bands as AT & T, send me a friend who lives in NYC, obviously unlocked.
Thank you all for your concern, I return to live!
Hey all ... Interesting problem with a frnds phone.. hope someone here can help unbrick the phone...
Okie.. soo..
1. DesireS ... no idea what radio/hboot/rom version.. but it was rooted earlier. Thats all the info i have.
2. Keeps rebooting when started on HTC logo, reboot after 3 seconds max.
3. Does not show up on Device manager on windows, even briefly. Cannot enter Hboot or Recovery .. phone just reboots.
Since its not detected, so i cant test even adb devices etc....
Suggestions and help regarding how to get the phone to stop long enough that something can be done on it, will be highly appreciated
Thanx in advance !
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Hey all ... Interesting problem with a frnds phone.. hope someone here can help unbrick the phone...
Okie.. soo..
1. DesireS ... no idea what radio/hboot/rom version.. but it was rooted earlier. Thats all the info i have.
2. Keeps rebooting when started on HTC logo, reboot after 3 seconds max.
3. Does not show up on Device manager on windows, even briefly. Cannot enter Hboot or Recovery .. phone just reboots.
Since its not detected, so i cant test even adb devices etc....
Suggestions and help regarding how to get the phone to stop long enough that something can be done on it, will be highly appreciated
Thanx in advance !
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have u already pulled battery and tried holding down the "volume down" button and while holding it down press power button and hold until HBOOT menu?
Yep .. done all possible (atlease as far as i know) methods and button combos to enter any recover or Hboot, but no luck ... :/ ...
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Yep .. done all possible (atlease as far as i know) methods and button combos to enter any recover or Hboot, but no luck ... :/ ...
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May o suggest something...? I have been through a similar situation before and managed to recover by following these steps. :-
Switch your phone off completely. Do not attempt to restart it.
Now connect it with USB cable to your pc. I'm assuming you have htc usb drivers previously installed.
Fire up the cmd window and change directory to where you've kept your adb files.
Now type adb devices
If your device is listed, type adb reboot recovery.
This shoud take you into the recovery menu. From there you can restore a nandroid backup or do a full wipe and install a new rom from sd card.
Do let me know if this works.
Beamed from my HTC Desire S using xda premium.
Nope.. no device detected :/ ... Actually, the funny thing is that the phone starts up automtically when the usb is connected .. although all it shud do is just charge up .. :| .. like its in some sort of hung up mode and expects a usb :/ .. even if its connected to a power socket :S
Ive tried no sdcard, no sim, and etc etc .. but no luck :/
But i tried everything, but no device detected by adb or windows... (btw, imho the device shud only be detected if its a sort of hibernate mode no? coz a power shutdown means its completely shut down.. or does the device stay in a sort of inactive bootloader state when usb is connected? )
So .... im still open to ideas !
You've probably tried this, but.....
I find it impossible to get into bootloader using this method:
power off, hold volume down, press power on, enter bootloader.
I find invariably the phone just boots up as normal.
The best way I've found is this:
hold power button whilst phone is on, select restart, wait until backlight goes off then immediately press volume down.
Phone should restart in bootloader menu.
Like I said, you've prob tried this but it works for me.
Peace
Sent from my HTC Desire S
Just realised this is prob useless to you as its actually stuck in a boot loop. Sorry.
Sent from my HTC Desire S
Did you have Fast Boot enabled in Settings -> Power? That's likely your problem not being able to get into the bootloader.
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Nope.. no device detected :/ ... Actually, the funny thing is that the phone starts up automtically when the usb is connected .. although all it shud do is just charge up .. :| .. like its in some sort of hung up mode and expects a usb :/ .. even if its connected to a power socket :S
Ive tried no sdcard, no sim, and etc etc .. but no luck :/
But i tried everything, but no device detected by adb or windows... (btw, imho the device shud only be detected if its a sort of hibernate mode no? coz a power shutdown means its completely shut down.. or does the device stay in a sort of inactive bootloader state when usb is connected? )
So .... im still open to ideas !
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Can you switch off completely...?
This is really important.
If you can switch off completely you need to remove the battery after the device is off.
Then wait for one minute and reinsert the battery.
Do not switch it on. Just connect usb to your pc. I'm assuming of course that you had enabled usb debugging on your device...
If you can't power it off then wait for the battery to discharge over time. Do not charge the phone while that is happening.
Then once it powers off remove the battery and follow instructions as written above.
After connecting to pc fire up cmd terminal and do tyw adb commands that I have written in the prwvios post.
Let me know if that helps.
Are you sure your phone can be switched off completely...?
Because in a bootloop you can't switch off the phone normally so either you need to pull battery Which I Do Not recommend, or wait for the battery to discharge itself over time.
Do keep us posted regarding further development in your case.
Beamed from my HTC Desire S using xda premium.
Roger that .. ill be discharging it and doing the test tonight, so ill keep the thread updated
Thanx for all the help ! Really appreciate it Will keep u posted
@chris5s : yeah.. tied all combos but got no where :/ thanx for the tip tho
@Putzy: since i cant start the phone, i cant say if it is/was on or not :s .. Currently im going to test @enigmaamit's idea.. hoping it works !
This may help...
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@chris5s : yeah.. tied all combos but got no where :/ thanx for the tip tho
@Putzy: since i cant start the phone, i cant say if it is/was on or not :s .. Currently im going to test @enigmaamit's idea.. hoping it works !
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Read this. This was my experience when faced with an unresponsive phone.
Oh yeah... read that already ... thats what raised my hopes after u informed abt the adb reboot method
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Ok.. so new update:
I drained the battery ... and tried the method.. but no device detected. In order to test various possibilities, i tried the same on my Galaxy S2.. and no device detected. Now this got me stumped.. but once i enabled "USB debugging"... adb detected device, and all was fine on my S2.
So the new conclusion is: my frnds DesireS does not have USB Debugging enabled :/
Sooo...... now the question to everyone out there is: Is there any possbie method to get USB debugging feature enabled "without" going into the rom?? Because im guessing that if i can get usb debugging.. @enigmaamit's idea will work!
So... TIL: Enable USB Debugging when playing around with your android .. or u can get screwed lol ... (redditors will understand what i mean )
Dont lose hope
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Oh yeah... read that already ... thats what raised my hopes after u informed abt the adb reboot method
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Ok.. so new update:
I drained the battery ... and tried the method.. but no device detected. In order to test various possibilities, i tried the same on my Galaxy S2.. and no device detected. Now this got me stumped.. but once i enabled "USB debugging"... adb detected device, and all was fine on my S2.
So the new conclusion is: my frnds DesireS does not have USB Debugging enabled :/
Sooo...... now the question to everyone out there is: Is there any possbie method to get USB debugging feature enabled "without" going into the rom?? Because im guessing that if i can get usb debugging.. @enigmaamit's idea will work!
So... TIL: Enable USB Debugging when playing around with your android .. or u can get screwed lol ... (redditors will understand what i mean )
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Dont lose hope yet.
Let the phone discharge itself completely. Now remove battery, wait for a minute and then reinsert battery. Connect to wall charger.
Tell me what happens after your battery has completely discharged and you connect it to the charger (main charger, not pc, since we know that doesnt work anymore). Does the charging led start blinking orange...?
If so wait till the blinking stops and the LED is lit up steadily.
Then hold down volume - button and power button together to get into the bootloader screen from where you can get into recovery and restore a backup or flash a new ROM.
Make sure you read the entire thread whose link i posted in my previous post. Its also on the last line of my signature.
I had a similar situation (HTC logo, no debbuging ON) and I managed it with fastboot command. See this. But I had the access to the bootloader. But you can try
Alright, so my NS4G the power button randomly stopped working the other day, I want to go to Sprint since I pay the device protection thing so I can get a new phone. But the other problem is that it's rooted and all of that good junk....... but I can't mount my phone to my computer... Anyone have any ideas? No clue on how to get into CWM without my power button..
Reboot into recovery from ROM manager.
fr3dw4rd said:
Alright, so my NS4G the power button randomly stopped working the other day, I want to go to Sprint since I pay the device protection thing so I can get a new phone. But the other problem is that it's rooted and all of that good junk....... but I can't mount my phone to my computer... Anyone have any ideas? No clue on how to get into CWM without my power button..
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From ROM Manager you can reboot to recovery at a touch of a button. And depending on which recovery you have you can either use the touchscreen or the softkeys to navigate and select. The search key is the same thing as the power button in recovery.
Oh............................................................................................... I have I think CWM 5.0.2.0? Or something like that.
I also don't know how to flash back to stock. I can't find any flashables. My USB doesn't work even in CWM.
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Oh............................................................................................... I have I think CWM 5.0.2.0? Or something like that.
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You can use back key for back, menu key to scroll down, search key for selection, home for scroll up then.
So yeah, from ROM Manager, hit reboot into recovery.
Edit: Are you mounting the SD from within CWM?
I can't mount my phone to my computer at all.... Even through CWM. I've tried to post on XDA about it and everyone told me a few things to try and none worked.
fr3dw4rd said:
I can't mount my phone to my computer at all.... Even through CWM. I've tried to post on XDA about it and everyone told me a few things to try and none worked.
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Transfer all the stuff you need over WiFi then with a program such as Airdroid when you're booted. Then reboot to recovery and do what you need.
You can't really lock back your phone if your USB is broken though...
I already have all my pictures and stuff backed up on Dropbox since it's what I've been having to use for like months without USB storage. Do you think I'll have to pay for a new phone? I get my upgrade in October. X_X
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I already have all my pictures and stuff backed up on Dropbox since it's what I've been having to use for like months without USB storage. Do you think I'll have to pay for a new phone? I get my upgrade in October. X_X
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No.
I simply believe you're having a hard time connecting it to USB, but they don't die that easily. Sadly, most of the time it's a user error there.
As I said, you can transfer stock 4.0.3 rom onto your phone via a software such as Airdroid. Then you reboot in recovery, wipe everything but the SD card, flash stock 4.0.3, reboot.
You would still need to connect via USB to relock your phone though, ideally.
I mean storage has been gone on my phone for months lol. I'd say it stopped working like 4-5 months after I got it. I've tried like 5-6 different USB cables. It would stop working, than one day randomly work for like 5 minutes than stop. Like, when I connect it to my computer it charges, but nothing prompts.
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I mean storage has been gone on my phone for months lol. I'd say it stopped working like 4-5 months after I got it. I've tried like 5-6 different USB cables. It would stop working, than one day randomly work for like 5 minutes than stop. Like, when I connect it to my computer it charges, but nothing prompts.
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That seems like the usb port. Storage and adb are different but they obviously both use the usb port. Nevertheless, return to stock except for locking the bootloader and bring it back and cross your fingers. Many places will fix it without asking much, even of it's unlocked as long as it's stock rom.
I got a stock image or whatever from this site..
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
But, will it work as a flashable?
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I got a stock image or whatever from this site..
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
But, will it work as a flashable?
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No.
Those have to be flashed via fastboot/adb.
You can use one of the downloads available at Peter Alfonso. It's stock, odexed rom + root.
http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/OEM/pete_crespo4g_ota_IMM76D_odexed.zip
Don't forget you have a Crespo4G, for Sprint, so you cannot use stuff meant for T-Mobile or AT&T. Sadly the 4G community being smaller, the full ROM package is hard to find, only OTA updated being available. This is the closest I could find.
Thanks a bunch! I just had a buddy of mine come down and he gave me a normal phone to use until like some odd day next week and he's just gonna get it swapped out for something new. He said the nexus is beyond on backorder.
Hey everyone. I got my SL101 in the mail today and went straight to work rooting it. I got root access, flashed a non-CWM recovery, but I tried using Rom Manager to reboot to recovery. After granting SU permissions it turned off and.... stayed off.
Now it will not power on no matter what button combination I try. I've had it charging for 6 hours with the wall adapter (which does work as I've tested it with my phone, and it was charging before this mishap).
Should I just keep charging it or did my little "Reboot to recovery" adventure break my tablet? =\
Any help is greatly appreciated and I'll provide info upon request.
CQd44 said:
Hey everyone. I got my SL101 in the mail today and went straight to work rooting it. I got root access, flashed a non-CWM recovery, but I tried using Rom Manager to reboot to recovery. After granting SU permissions it turned off and.... stayed off.
Now it will not power on no matter what button combination I try. I've had it charging for 6 hours with the wall adapter (which does work as I've tested it with my phone, and it was charging before this mishap).
Should I just keep charging it or did my little "Reboot to recovery" adventure break my tablet? =\
Any help is greatly appreciated and I'll provide info upon request.
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ROM Manager.... shouldn't be used for the Slider or Transformer. Ever.
Take a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26522267
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ROM Manager.... shouldn't be used for the Slider or Transformer. Ever.
Take a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26522267
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I didn't think a simple "reboot" command would totally render my device useless.
Would a "reboot recovery" in terminal emulator have done the same to my tablet?
EDIT: I appreciate the response, but now do you have any idea how to fix my tablet? =\ This is a real bummer. I knew not to install CWM through the app at least.
CQd44 said:
I didn't think a simple "reboot" command would totally render my device useless.
Would a "reboot recovery" in terminal emulator have done the same to my tablet?
EDIT: I appreciate the response, but now do you have any idea how to fix my tablet? =\ This is a real bummer. I knew not to install CWM through the app at least.
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I'm not sure. Have you checked out the PERI tool? It might be of help here for your soft brick.
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I'm not sure. Have you checked out the PERI tool? It might be of help here for your soft brick.
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PERI tool doesn't detect my tablet being plugged in. Neither does... anything, really. ADB doesn't detect a device at all.
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PERI tool doesn't detect my tablet being plugged in. Neither does... anything, really. ADB doesn't detect a device at all.
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Running out of options here... Darn. Only other thing I can think is plug it into your PC then try to manually power on the tablet to see if the PC will recognize anything being turned on.
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Running out of options here... Darn. Only other thing I can think is plug it into your PC then try to manually power on the tablet to see if the PC will recognize anything being turned on.
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Nada. Zip.
Too bad too. I normally don't have any trouble with ASUS products =\
I can't believe it won't even power on. You could probably send it in for hardware failure if that's the case though...
Well, ASUS gave me an RMA number so I'm sending it off today. I appreciate your efforts though!
Mine is doing the same thing. I rma-d it when it stopped booting too. They said they had to reload the BIOS. I got it back....it. boots but. Still no USB..I just bought another USB cable.waiting to get it. If it don't work, i all ready have another rma number.. ill wait to send it until I have my nexus4 so I don't go crazy from another 10 days without my tab....
Ah, sorry to hear about this guys. Hopefully everything gets worked out. It still puzzles me that the tablet's hardware failed.
Hello
Im so emberrassed of myself... I was trying to flash TWRP on my s10e, I've tried different versions for hours and hours. And i downloaded an other version, but it was for s10+, not for s10e, and I flashed it... My phone now wont turn on. Is there any hope?
Ofcourse there is hope. Flash one twrp that works for ir device via odin That helped me in many situations xd
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Ofcourse there is hope. Flash one twrp that works for ir device via odin That helped me in many situations xd
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Thanks for your answer! But my phone wont even give a small sight of not being dead. It won't turn on and my PC won't recognize it
I actually could make it start for a second, now my laptop is recognizing it. I'll try to fix it tomorrow
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Thanks for your answer! But my phone wont even give a small sight of not being dead. It won't turn on and my PC won't recognize it
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Of you can get him into download mode, it can be fixed bo worries
Good news: I could fix it.
Solution: I let the battery die, then charged it. I pressed bixby+power+volume up for 10+ seconds and it turned on for a few seconds and it turned up in my pc device list. So I could use the ADB windows program to boot it into download. Then I flashed the original ROM.
And I could even put TWRP on it with the root shell.
Thanks to everyone who helped!
I have also done the same thing and now phone is not starting. Can you help me to fix it.