Questions about getting Android devices out of a "bricked" state.
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Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 it neither goes into download mode( vol down+menu+power buttons) or ram dump mode (vol up+ power buttons)
my Samsung Galaxy ace gt-s5830 has just “hung” during the start-up screen with the white text “Samsung
www.samsung.com "on a black background.
I have tried to restart it and to take the battery out ...
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Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 Died
I updated my phone with Odin v.3.04 and now it is not working anymore. I took out the USB cable and I removed the battery while the phone was in download mode. When I went to turn my phone on again, ...
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How Can I Pass Bootloader (Huawei Y200 stuck logo/ Boot-Loop)
I have recently learnt a few things about Android and its system. I have a Huawei Ascend Y200, and I flashed it with ClockworkMod specifically for Y200 with a computer and it worked.
I rooted my ...
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I deleted my only launcher
I deleted my only launcher and now I cannot open settings to set to debug mode in order to use ADB or similar to install a new launcher. I can't open the Play store, can't open anything except those ...
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nroot/unbrick Galaxy S2 SGH-T989
I am having problems trying to go to this screen
but the process ends me up on this screen
My process:
Turn off device
Hold power volume up and down until a vibration
Event: shows the end ...
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Nexus 7 soft bricked, Need to recover data
I don't know if I'm posting this on the right website or not, but I'll try anyway.
I recently brought a Google Nexus 7 (non-SIM version). I've used it for around 3 months now and everything was ...
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Galaxy S2 skyrocket (american) wont turn on
My friend is American and brought a galaxy s2 skyrocket with her....we wanted to update the software here in Spain...and the thing went wrong. After the update....the phone wont turn on. We have no ...
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Galaxy Mini bricked: black screen
I have a Galaxy Mini GT-5570 phone.
Last night I installed "ROM Manager" and tried to partition my SD card. It requires to reboot my phone and I confirmed that, so it shut down my phone. Then it ...
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How can I fix my corrupted /data partition?
The following happened. I have a Galaxy Mini Plus (S5570I) running Android 2.3.6 which I've been using without problems so far. Recently, I've installed an APK (Opera Beta), which somehow caused the ...
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Huawei ascend H866C
I installed a rom app and then accidently hit the wrong device name. Screen only says image signature verify fail
Your boot/recovery image may have an incorrect signature.verify. signature. Remove ...
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Phone stuck on Google logo after trying to install Jelly Bean
I have a Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0.1
I tried to install Jelly Bean, and followed all instructions I found on a website (forgot which one). I installed cwh and twh first.
Then I installed Jelly ...
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Is it possible to pull data using Android Debug Bridge on an N7 while soft bricked
I've tried countless fixes for my N7 being softbricked (No idea how it was done). I've resorted to using Android Debug Bridge, however I cannot get access to the device (device not recognized from CMD ...
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Is there a way to restore my Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-i747)?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-I747) that I tried to root using this video
Somehow something went horribly, horrible wrong and now I think I have hard bricked it.
My symptoms:
Phone does not turn ...
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Galaxy S2 is possibly bricked. What can I do?
Background:
Browsing on Chrome, device suddenly freezes. Hold down power button to turn it off.
Turn it on again. "Galaxy S2 i9100T" logo keeps displaying nothing else happens. Tried rebooting ...
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samsung gt i9000 does not start
I flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with 4.1.1 through Odin. But I didn't like it, so I wanted to restore it to Android 2.3 -- and and while restoring it, my computer suddenly restarted and my mobile phone ...
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Bricked (Hard?) Android I5510 recovery
I was attempting to install ClockworkMod and CynogenMod10 for my phone using odin.
I followed the steps listed here
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Force debug in safe mode via USB?
I did something so stupid I'm almost kind of proud of it. I rooted my LG Optimus T (Froyo) using Gingerbreak, cleaned out a bunch of stuff, and accidentally deleted the home screen launcher. No big, ...
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random freezes after revive from emmc brick
my galaxy s2 phone was bricked because of emmc-bug , I have re-partitioned it using custom .pit file , but I got many freezes every day (using stock rom) but using CM10 freezes are not too much but ...
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Sony Xperia Pro is stuck in bootloop. How to fix?
Yesterday, my rooted Xperia Pro decided to go into perpetual restart mode. I tried removing the SIM and SD cards to no avail. I tried reflashing the ICS upgrade. I tried throwing my phone across the ...
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How to install a ROM with CWM when /data (and /sdcard) are encrypted and I can't reformat them?
I used to run CyanogenMod 9.1 with device encryption on my Galaxy S3, and decided today that I wanted to try a CM 10 nightly.
A problem with device encryption that I didn't know about before is that ...
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Galaxy S2 Not Booting After Editing build.prop
I'm really far from "rooting Android devices" . I had root my device . SuperSU and CWM installed.
But today i did a mistake and decided to try Facebook Home. So install it from an .apk and then edit ...
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What does it mean to “brick” your phone?
I'm considering unlocking the bootloader on my Verizon Galaxy S3 (SCH-I535). However, a guide I was reading made this statement:
Once you have unlocked your phone’s bootloader using this app, you ...
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Galaxy S I9000 doesn't start
I flashed my Samsung Galaxy S with 4.1.1 through Odin. But I didn't like it, so I wanted to restore it to Android 2.3 -- and and while restoring it my computer suddenly restarted and my mobile phone ...
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How to unbrick my Samsung Galaxy Y
I put custom ROM ussrv8_evanlocked@ogy@xda after rooting my Samsung Galaxy Y, and then I wanted to update kernel to overclock my phone (I followed this set of instructions).
Now the phone is not ...
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MyTouch bricked
I have a MyTouch 4G which I had to pull battery on and then when bootup came up, it just sits and hangs at the white logo screen. How do I go about fixing this?
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How to take Motorola Photon 4g out of the grave?
Recently I ordered Motorola 4g from US.... It was with stock Sprint Sunfire OS.
OS : Sunfire-2.3.5
Baseband : 4.5.1A (I am not sure about this whether its baseband or revision)
Build : ...
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Push a ROM to Galaxy S3 (d2att) while in TWRP/CWM?
My friend has royally buggered up his phone and we can't get a file onto the phone in order to reflash the ROM. We are able to get into the recovery (either TWRP or CWM) and reflash the recovery via ...
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HTC ONE X Custom ROM Issue
I tried to install a custom ROM on my htc one X without making any backup. My new custom ROM did not installed correctly. It is just showing X type logo of custom ROM after htc splash screen. I can go ...
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TECNO N3 keeps on restarting “E:Signature Verification Failed”
I have bricked my TECNO N3 trying to install a boot animation. Right now it keeps on restarting. I have gotten the stock ROM for my device. The problem is when I tried to flash it I get an error:
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Galaxy Note 2 N7100 does not turn on, only shows battery “loading” icon
I bought a GN2 three days ago, it worked fine until today, when I did a reboot and it didn't come back. The blue LED turned off with the device, and instead of rebooting, the battery "loading" (empty ...
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ZTE V9 light ftm startup error
My ZTE v9 light tablet won't go past the 'android' loading screen and go to the main menu.
I think it happened when I didn't install an application the correct way and everything started crashing. ...
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Lenovo Ideapad A1 , dead, not working, no charge led
I was flashing the Lenovo A1 ideapad tablet following the steps here :
http://www.artiss.co.uk/2012/04/installing-cyanogenmod-on-a-lenovo-ideapad-a1
, and I was able to flash the clockwork Mod (and ...
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LG DoublePlay: Boot looping after replacing framework-res.apk
I modified and replaced the original framework-res.apk on my LG DoublePlay (C729) and now it keeps bootlooping on T-Mobile logo. Even the recovery mode didn't help - the recovery mode displays only a ...
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Phone Stuck on Samsung Galaxy S2 Screen
I have a rooted GT-I9100G. Recently the official JB for France came out, and I wanted to flash it.
Some of the reasons to do so were:
My phone use to randomly show charging even when the charger ...
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Bad ROM flash - Kindle Fire stuck in boot
My KF won't finish booting.
I started to root my KF from my iMac using these instructions and with the files it points to. I got as far as flashing it with FIREFIREFIRE which appeared to complete ...
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My Kindle Fire is stuck at the yellow triangle screen after installing TWRP. How can I fix this?
I followed the instructions on the official TWRP site on how to install TWRP on the Kindle Fire. So I did
wget <twrp.img>
adb shell idme bootmode 4002
fastboot -i 0x1949 flash recovery ...
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Is it a hard brick?
I think I've bricked my device (Huawei G330, U8225-1). I was adb pushing while I received a "push failed: no space left on device". The phone boots in recovery, I've root but the bootloader is locked.
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Nexus 7: does ruining the bootloader hard-brick the device? Or is there still a chance to recover? [closed]
So, I've got a Nexus 7 and would like to start expirementing with images, etc (primary goal being installing Ubuntu in multiboot with Android, probably loading from a flash drive over an OTG cable).
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Samsung Galaxy GT-S5300B dead / bricked (?)
I own a Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300B) and, last week, I mistakenly erased a partition issuing the command:
cat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 > /dev/zero
(It was either that or /proc/mmcblk0p1, I ...
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SD card full bricks Android 2.2: In fsckdelay end. Kill dosfsck, ret=-1
I downloaded this 80 MB ZIP file containing 27000 files to my SD card and unzipped it using this code.
A no space left error occurred before all files could be extracted.
I couldn't remove the ...
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What is JTAG in regards to Android?
I see the term JTAG used for reviving dead Android devices that otherwise don't respond to anything and aren't seen when USB connected. It seems that it's something done from the physical hardware ...
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Bricked my Asus TF300T? Manual JB update
First, my device failed to get the OTA Update because I deleted some system apps (see my original post).
Then I found this post where another user restored original APKs in /system/apps and managed ...
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What's my solutions if i brick my android phone?
Are there any tricks (general or not) that I can use if I brick my Android phone? e.g.: when updating android..
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Is my phone hard or soft bricked?
My phone, Samsung Galaxy Mini (GTS5570) is bricked.
I tried to modify its setting using Odin so that I can over-clock my phone to 800Mhz, but it did not work out. By then it will not start, it is ...
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Nexus 7 won't boot up - could it be due to cell phone sitting on top of it?
I've had my Nexus 7 for about 4 months and it's been working well until about a couple days ago. It ran out of battery so I plugged in the charger. It began charging but something weird happened when ...
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Why is bricking possible?
No matter how messed up a desktop is, you can always format it and reinstall of a live boot. Why can't you do the same thing with a droid?
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Bricked Droid Razr while trying to flash a custom ROM, Safestrap gone
I'm so sorry for being one of these "help me, I don't know what to do!" noobs, but that's exactly my situation. This is my first Android phone and my first time trying to do this. I do come from a ...
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Samsung Galaxy Y(GT-S5360) Stuck after unsuccesfull firmware update using kies
Today I tried updating my Samsung Galaxy Y using Kies. While updating, my PC rebooted. When I turned on my phone, it said that firmware upgrade failed and that I should connect it to Kies and run ...
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Samsung Galaxy S3 not booting up, just shows ”Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” black screen
This morning I woke up to my Samsung Galaxy S3 which just “hung” during the start-up screen with the white text “Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” on a black background. It never comes to the “Enter ...
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GT-P1000 pc and phone icon
I was trying to root my old Galaxy Tab 7 (GT-P1000) device when it got frozen at the setup connection. I noticed then that it was a Gingerbread file -- so I killed Odin. Now I'm getting phone and ...
