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i was trying to upgrade the radio to 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.08.29, after installing it i rebooted and the box with the orange arrow appeared for a few seconds then it rebooted it self and i got the black screen, i waited like 3min but nothing happened so i removed the battery and now the phone is dead !!!!
Was your phone GSM or CDMA?
it "was" unlocked GSM .
When you say dead... what exactly does it do?
Is there ANY chance your battery was low when you attempted to flash the radio?
Any joy with the phone plugged in?
Can you get into Fastboot?
totally dead the screen will not lit at all and the bat was fully charged, even when i plug it into the charger the LED's "green or orange" don't go on .
Wow, that does sound bricked.
Return to operator (if it's contract) and plead ignorance?
EDIT - I read on this forum once that someone managed to get around this by taking their battery out, putting it back in and turning it on. He reckons it worked after about 20 attempts...
lol it an unlocked phone i got it from the UK, i live elsewhere.
nprussell said:
EDIT - I read on this forum once that someone managed to get around this by taking their battery out, putting it back in and turning it on. He reckons it worked after about 20 attempts...
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thanks ill keep trying that until it works, that my only chance .
If you can get in fastboot you can try to use the official htc update
WOW!! Same thing just happened to me. I was flashing the recommended radio and suddenly everything went black. Nothing works at all, doesnt even know its plugged in!
Edit: Well... I flashed a GSM radio on CDMA phone... Any help? or Did i destroy it?
Just a question. Are you able to boot in recovery mode? If so just restore your backup.
Do u can´t back to fastboot mode and flash ur older original Radio?
Try this?
Cheers and good luck!
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totally dead the screen will not lit at all and the bat was fully charged, even when i plug it into the charger the LED's "green or orange" don't go on .
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dont think he able to go into recovery mode when his hero cant be on...
maybe you could stat out ur previous radio or more info before you flash the new radio for the dev to help solve your problem.
as i flash the new radio it was fine on my hero.
kindanewbie said:
WOW!! Same thing just happened to me. I was flashing the recommended radio and suddenly everything went black. Nothing works at all, doesnt even know its plugged in!
Edit: Well... I flashed a GSM radio on CDMA phone... Any help? or Did i destroy it?
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you ****ed it :/
take out battery, leave for 24-48 hours, put battery back, see if it turns on. some people have found that it works
kindanewbie said:
WOW!! Same thing just happened to me. I was flashing the recommended radio and suddenly everything went black. Nothing works at all, doesnt even know its plugged in!
Edit: Well... I flashed a GSM radio on CDMA phone... Any help? or Did i destroy it?
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sigh...
there are so many thread on the cdma forum for this. if you flash a gsm radio on your phone, it is bricked. there's no hope to fix it cause its an electrical issue i think, like you physically destroyed the phone cause of like a voltage difference or whatnot.
yap im not able to boot into anything the phone is dead it doesn't even charge the battery .
i had 3.1 - MoDaCo Custom ROM, when i read that its recommended to update the to 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.08.29 radio i did and that's when it died !
Well, I can't believe it, but I too am in the same boat. However, in my case, I am blaming a faulty SD card!
I already had an update.zip file on my SD card (which was a radio file that I never actually bothered flashing, having read that my current one was more recent). So, I deleted that file (or so I thought) and put the new CKDriod ROM on the card, renaming it to update.zip. I then put teh card back in the phone and updated via the recovery menu. The process was suspiciously quick, and after the reboot, I got the dreaded screen.
Putting the SD card in my PC, I was horrified to find that the old update.zip was still there (the radio image)! I don't know how this is possible, but that's the truth. Also, I am can only assume that the radio image I had was a CDMA image, and I have now bricked my GSM Hero.
Pretty bleak right now...
UPDATE: It's working!
To the guys that are getting the box-screen-of-death, how long have you left the phone sitting at that screen? I had mine on, sitting on my desk with the box + arrow + phone and nothing else, unresponsive to everything. So I carried on with my frantic Google search for answers. About two minutes later, I felt my desk vibrate, and lo and behold, my Hero had kicked back into life!
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UPDATE: It's working!
To the guys that are getting the box-screen-of-death, how long have you left the phone sitting at that screen? I had mine on, sitting on my desk with the box + arrow + phone and nothing else, unresponsive to everything. So I carried on with my frantic Google search for answers. About two minutes later, I felt my desk vibrate, and lo and behold, my Hero had kicked back into life!
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good for you ,i left mine about 3min maybe alil less, then i removed the battery and the screen never lit up since then .
Hi everyone. I hope I'm in the right forum. I need some hand-holding big time. This is the first time writing regarding a mobile phone Unlocker so please be gentile with me. I'm a virgin with phone unlocking matters and anything related to Unlocker issues here in the states.
This was all a bit confusing for me. I donated & obtained Olipro's Rhodium Sec / CID / SIM Unlocker to see if I could get Sprint's service to work on this phone. All went well with the unlocker steps 1 thru 3 until I got to the radio portion for the radio file 2.32.00WU.exe I downloaded from xda-developers.com's website. I ran this downloaded file in hopes that I now could get Sprints US service with my T-mobile phone. Weeeel, unfortunately my HTC T-PRO2 never came back to life after this 4th step. It did have a 90% battery charge when I started this whole process.
I purchased this phone brand new from an eBay seller a few weeks ago which was "supposedly" unlocked. I found out that "Unlocked" only meant it could see both T-mobile and AT&T networks, nothing else, even going manual. Useless...
My HTC T-PRO2 has the Win Mobile v6.5 update.
Did I miss something? Is this what is meant by the term "BRICKED"? Did I do something I wasn't supposed to? Did I just lose $20USD? Do I now have a $500 brick?
Thanks.
suzukii said:
Hi everyone. I hope I'm in the right forum. I need some hand-holding big time. This is the first time writing regarding a mobile phone Unlocker so please be gentile with me. I'm a virgin with phone unlocking matters and anything related to Unlocker issues here in the states.
This was all a bit confusing for me. I donated & obtained Olipro's Rhodium Sec / CID / SIM Unlocker to see if I could get Sprint's service to work on this phone. All went well with the unlocker steps 1 thru 3 until I got to the radio portion for the radio file 2.32.00WU.exe I downloaded from xda-developers.com's website. I ran this downloaded file in hopes that I now could get Sprints US service with my T-mobile phone. Weeeel, unfortunately my HTC T-PRO2 never came back to life after this 4th step. It did have a 90% battery charge when I started this whole process.
I purchased this phone brand new from an eBay seller a few weeks ago which was "supposedly" unlocked. I found out that "Unlocked" only meant it could see both T-mobile and AT&T networks, nothing else, even going manual. Useless...
My HTC T-PRO2 has the Win Mobile v6.5 update.
Did I miss something? Is this what is meant by the term "BRICKED"? Did I do something I wasn't supposed to? Did I just lose $20USD? Do I now have a $500 brick?
Thanks.
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can you enter boot loader..? and i dont think you can use a t-mobil on sprint?
suzukii said:
Hi everyone. I hope I'm in the right forum. I need some hand-holding big time. This is the first time writing regarding a mobile phone Unlocker so please be gentile with me. I'm a virgin with phone unlocking matters and anything related to Unlocker issues here in the states.
This was all a bit confusing for me. I donated & obtained Olipro's Rhodium Sec / CID / SIM Unlocker to see if I could get Sprint's service to work on this phone. All went well with the unlocker steps 1 thru 3 until I got to the radio portion for the radio file 2.32.00WU.exe I downloaded from xda-developers.com's website. I ran this downloaded file in hopes that I now could get Sprints US service with my T-mobile phone. Weeeel, unfortunately my HTC T-PRO2 never came back to life after this 4th step. It did have a 90% battery charge when I started this whole process.
I purchased this phone brand new from an eBay seller a few weeks ago which was "supposedly" unlocked. I found out that "Unlocked" only meant it could see both T-mobile and AT&T networks, nothing else, even going manual. Useless...
My HTC T-PRO2 has the Win Mobile v6.5 update.
Did I miss something? Is this what is meant by the term "BRICKED"? Did I do something I wasn't supposed to? Did I just lose $20USD? Do I now have a $500 brick?
Thanks.
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"Bricked" means you've rendered the phone useless, and generally unrecoverable, through a bad flash...that's one that either gets horribly corrputed, or when you use the wrong type of ROM, which is what it sounds like you've done. First, you can't use a GSM version of the TP2 on Sprint's CDMA network. Secondly, trying to flash a CDMA ROM on a GSM TP2 can indeed brick the phone.
I hate to say this, but if you had carefully and throughly read and understood all the instructions provided in both the HardSPL and the Rhodium ROM flashing threads, you would have seen the warnings against flashing the wrong type of ROM.
It's possible that you haven't totally killed your phone, but that's definitely a potential outcome here. While you're waiting for someone else to chime in with steps on how to possibly recover it, you might want to go back and read the guide to flashing ROMs on the Rhodium one more time.
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"Bricked" means you've rendered the phone useless, and generally unrecoverable, through a bad flash...that's one that either gets horribly corrputed, or when you use the wrong type of ROM, which is what it sounds like you've done. First, you can't use a GSM version of the TP2 on Sprint's CDMA network. Secondly, trying to flash a CDMA ROM on a GSM TP2 can indeed brick the phone.
I hate to say this, but if you had carefully and throughly read and understood all the instructions provided in both the HardSPL and the Rhodium ROM flashing threads, you would have seen the warnings against flashing the wrong type of ROM.
It's possible that you haven't totally killed your phone, but that's definitely a potential outcome here. While you're waiting for someone else to chime in with steps on how to possibly recover it, you might want to go back and read the guide to flashing ROMs on the Rhodium one more time.
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Hi & thanks sirphunkee for the quick responses guys. I thought I was following the instructions by simply following the downloaded file's, RhodiumUnlocker.exe, simple three steps, the 3rd step requiring me to check the two boxes on the screen and committing the changes. That part all went well. Then it was the radio flashing part which is actually the 4th step. After that step completed & and it stated that my phone would now reboot/restart. It never came back. I now get absolutely nothing coming up on the screen, not even a power light. I plugged the wall charger in & I noticed that the orange power charging light comes on for about 2 minutes then goes away & then nothing for another 1-2 hours.
Any further suggestions are kindly appreciated.
In the meantime I've ordered the HTC HD2 T-mobile, supposedly "Unlocked", too. I'm definitely not going to try anything on that one until I see if this HTC T-PRO2 can be revived if it's not already dead.
djteotancolis said:
can you enter boot loader..? and i dont think you can use a t-mobil on sprint?
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Hi & thanks djteotancolis.
No. I can't see anything on the screen. There is just a black display.
As for Olipro's Unlocker, they state they can. Or am I reading it wrong?
suzukii said:
In the meantime I've ordered the HTC HD2 T-mobile, supposedly "Unlocked", too. I'm definitely not going to try anything on that one until I see if this HTC T-PRO2 can be revived if it's not already dead.
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You ordered a t-mobile HD2 to use on Sprint...? That's not possible to do either, it's still a GSM phone, not CDMA.
sirphunkee said:
You ordered a t-mobile HD2 to use on Sprint...? That's not possible to do either, it's still a GSM phone, not CDMA.
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No. I ordered the T-mobile HD2 for my girl who is quite happy with her T-mobile service. But I would've tried f-ing with it when she's not looking, especially since I'm buying it for her. I know, I know, " If it's not broke, don't fix it". But if I stuck with that theory I would never learn anything new nor buy any new gadgets.
if u want a tp2 with cdma and gsm capabilities you want a sprint tp2 has a simcard slot and all
If you can put in bootloader then try to reflash original rom...
Others have said this fixed for them.... Can't say, never flashed wrong rom...
ultramag69 said:
If you can put in bootloader then try to reflash original rom...
Others have said this fixed for them.... Can't say, never flashed wrong rom...
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OK this is dum, dum again. I mentioned that there is no screen on this phone now. My PC tries to recognize it for about 1 minute or two, then the phone's hardware signature disappears from my hardware list in Windows 7's Device Manager listing. It didn't do that before.
Now, how do I boot it into a bootloader? Is this another thing I have to buy or is this some magic mode/functionality built into the phone itself?
Thanks.
PS: I wasn't kidding when I said I'm a virgin at this stuff.
suzukii said:
OK this is dum, dum again. I mentioned that there is no screen on this phone now. My PC tries to recognize it for about 1 minute or two, then the phone's hardware signature disappears from my hardware list in Windows 7's Device Manager listing. It didn't do that before.
Now, how do I boot it into a bootloader? Is this another thing I have to buy or is this some magic mode/functionality built into the phone itself?
Thanks.
PS: I wasn't kidding when I said I'm a virgin at this stuff.
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bootloader is built into the phone, nothing to download or buy.
hold the volume down button while pressing the power button up top when the phone is off.
If you can get this you might be able to flash the appropriate Rom and radio for the phone.
scariola said:
bootloader is built into the phone, nothing to download or buy.
hold the volume down button while pressing the power button up top when the phone is off.
If you can get this you might be able to flash the appropriate Rom and radio for the phone.
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Nope. That didn't work. The orange LED comes on when I press the power button without pressing any buttons with or without pressing the Volume-Down button. Then every 2-3 minutes the phone tries to register itself in Windows' Device Manager showing up as "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM" with an exclamation point under "Other Devices". This state lasts for about 1 full minute then it disappears from Device Manager in windows.
suzukii said:
Thanks for the suggestion.
Nope. That didn't work. The orange LED comes on when I press the power button without pressing any buttons with or without pressing the Volume-Down button. Then every 2-3 minutes the phone tries to register itself in Windows' Device Manager showing up as "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM" with an exclamation point under "Other Devices". This state lasts for about 1 full minute then it disappears from Device Manager in windows.
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if your have any friend i your area who knows aabout flashing...they could help you
i have the same problem like you i'm got a job in a company and they use sprint...so now i need a phone thats sprint and i need to trade my tilt2
djteotancolis said:
if your have any friend i your area who knows aabout flashing...they could help you
i have the same problem like you i'm got a job in a company and they use sprint...so now i need a phone thats sprint and i need to trade my tilt2
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Nope. OK, then I'm bricked!!!! Thanks though.
djteotancolis said:
if your have any friend i your area who knows aabout flashing...they could help you
i have the same problem like you i'm got a job in a company and they use sprint...so now i need a phone thats sprint and i need to trade my tilt2
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Thanks for trying to help dude.
suzukii said:
Nope. That didn't work. The orange LED comes on when I press the power button without pressing any buttons with or without pressing the Volume-Down button. Then every 2-3 minutes the phone tries to register itself in Windows' Device Manager showing up as "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM" with an exclamation point under "Other Devices". This state lasts for about 1 full minute then it disappears from Device Manager in windows.
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Did you try running the flash file anyway? It isn't neccessary for the pc to recognise the phone, the flash file will still run.
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Did you try running the flash file anyway? It isn't neccessary for the pc to recognise the phone, the flash file will still run.
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Yep, tried running the STEP-1/Hard-SPL app again & now the app. just freezes. I left it running for about 30 minutes & it never came back with any visual response even thought the PC doesn't recognize it.
I even tried the following Hard reset Steps from the wiki.xda-developers.com section for this phone:
* With the device turned off, press and hold the TALK/SEND and END/HANG UP buttons, then the press and hold the POWER button until you see this message on the screen.
* "This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to manufacturer default. Press ?VolUp to restore manufacturer default, or press other keys to cancel."
* Release the TALK/SEND, END and POWER buttons.
* Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.
If you have a Telus or Verizon TP2 (Sprint not tested but likely the same), the combination is different.
* Power off the phone using the 'end' key.
* Hold 'volume down' and 'send', the press 'end' till you see blue text. Follow hard reset prompts.
N-A-D-A...
I think it's a dead duck.
You took a CDMA radio and flashed it to a phone that was made for GSM.
GSM - T-Mobile & AT&T
CDMA - Sprint & Verizon
You don't need to use Hard SPL again.Try to install a GSM radio and see what happens. When it's reading for that first minute, run the GSM radio installer.
If you can't get into bootloader you may be F-ed.
For kicks try to install a GSM rom if all else fails and then try the GSM radio again.
FYI - From my knowledge you can't cross over phone's using the opposite technologies.
SeanGotti said:
You took a CDMA radio and flashed it to a phone that was made for GSM.
GSM - T-Mobile & AT&T
CDMA - Sprint & Verizon
You don't need to use Hard SPL again.Try to install a GSM radio and see what happens. When it's reading for that first minute, run the GSM radio installer.
If you can't get into bootloader you may be F-ed.
For kicks try to install a GSM rom if all else fails and then try the GSM radio again.
FYI - From my knowledge you can't cross over phone's using the opposite technologies.
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Well that's not what the guys over at rhodium.htc-unlocks.com's SIM Unlocker says. I tried it, now I have a fried phone HTC TOUCH PRO2. ...and I'm out $20US. I did write them before I purchased their Unlocker, but I am still awaiting an answer which is now kinda too late for a response for me.
Moving on, though. They don't have a GSM Radioooo unlocker for me to be able to reflash this dead puppy. Oh, well. Poor me.
hi there.
i have pb like u
phone tp2 just detecting @cdma system in winxp
Ports(com<p)----> Generic HS-USB Diagnostics(com2)
what it means?
br Komi
I've searched & searched thru XDA without any luck or finding someone with a similar situation.
My GNEX is unlocked, rooted & running AOKP 36.
I hung up the phone after a call...locked it...put it in my pocket...took it out a few minutes later and the phone would not turn on. My battery was over 50%, so i thought i pocket-powered the phone down.
The phone does not boot into any mode. I've tried them all. It is not recognized by my Mac or PC. Here are the things i've done so far: Battery pull. Charge overnight. Removed battery overnight. I bought a new battery & i'm still having the same problem.
Any ideas before i call Verizon and take the loss? I would really like to recover my pictures & videos.
Thanks in advance.
So you have tried to boot into recovery by holding down power and the volume buttons?
If not try this to get to recovery to do a restore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SDd1DZUs-M
If you tried this, then you might need to send it in.
Thanks for the reply, but i've tried that already. I'm out of ideas...it's unresponsive.
falotm said:
Thanks for the reply, but i've tried that already. I'm out of ideas...it's unresponsive.
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Do you have another battery or friend with a gnex? My girls died completely while plugged in over night. I got another battery and it fired up.
Needless to say a clean install was the next step.
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Also hold down power button for awhile. And also try.with a different battery.
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I bought a new battery from Verizon and tried it, but its still unresponsive. I charged both batteries overnight and nothing happens.
I've held all buttons for several minutes with both batteries, but nothing happens. It wont boot and it won't boot into recovery/bootloader/hard reset menu, etc (android with stomach open LOL)
On a few occasions, when i connect to my PC, it says new hardware detected OMAP 4440 (or something like that) & asks to install drivers. I have the Gnex toolkit, but the program does NOT detect my phone.
Thanks for the replies.
This happened to my fiance's vzw gnex. She was on stock though. Just surfing the web and it turned off. Dead as can be. She took it back and they gave her a new one.
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Oh.. Man you lost the bootloader.... If you have warranty go ask for a replacement, it's a pain trying to get the phone back up..
They won't know the phone its unlocked since it won't turn on
Nexus Cm9 + Franco
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f63...b-prime-via-usb-cable-freeeeeeeeeeee-1465412/
Try this?
Can't hurt...
My Nexus is from Verizon & the tutorial you linked is for the GSM version. Do you think it matters?
I will still give it a shot. Thanks!
Did you check the pin area where the battery connects? Are the pins in good condition or any small foreign object around them?
If you're careful you can *maybe* odin it back to stock (you've already lost the pics tho).
Look in the dev area for any odin threads.....links to files and stuff are in there.
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Try this?
Can't hurt...
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Thanks for the link. I installed the drivers, phone was detected, ran thru the program, but it failed at the very end. I think its because my phone is i515 & not GSM version.
I've given up hope. Time to get a replacement. I hope it never boots and they don't find out its unlocked & rooted.
I appreciate everyone's input.
Thanks!
a friend mine has a similar problem..
phone died without reason
where i can download the drives that you made mention?
i'll suggest him to try that .bat file
hello i have a phone in my possesion that i was told while trying to flash ruu back to stock the phone had a message saying that ruu had an error and then disconnected and now wont come on at all....i tried charging it all day and still same result....also have used 3 different batteries to no avail....
any help would be appreciated.....this person has no insurance as it was flashed to boost i believe.....i actually told him that its a very expensive paper weight but wanted to give this forum a try as i have found this place to be a wealth of information.....
thx k
Yeah sounds like a brick. Have you tried to push anything or access through ADB?
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yes i have and to no avail......phone not detected at all but just wanted to try and maybe see if someone, anyone can atleast help this poor guy.....
I'm having the same problem except the one I have had been flashed to cricket and was working and the guy let the battery run dead and now it won't turn back on! If u hold the power button it will give u the haptic but no splash or boot if i try to get into recovery it doesn't do anything!
There's gotta be someone on here that knows how to unbrick these things
after further investigation the phone does boot up the screen is just black i know its on because i can use the volume buttons and hear the ding when u use them. so if anyone can help please id really like to be able to use this phone it was given to me for free and i was gonna give it to my daughter .
oh and ive been flashing and rooting the evo for about a year now for numerous friends so i know all about the process ive just never seen this issue
ohh and when its on the charge light flashes green at a steady rate , no specific number of times
Good night xda,
I am once again turning to the forum for help,this time for my older SGS3. While I upgraded to the S4,I gave my ATT s3 to my sister. I've had the phone since it was released. It does not have any physical or water damage.
Initially,I had a custom rom on it and all was well. When I gave it to my sister she did not like the rom so I flashed the stock ATT rom back on it. She used the phone for about 6 months after that with no issue,but about a month ago she complained that the phone sometime shut down randomly with no warning. The screen just went black completely,sometimes when she was not using it at all. I did witness this a few times while looking at it so I was pretty puzzled with what could cause that.
Now yesterday,she called me because the phone was completely dead. It shut down randomly again but she was not able to power it up again this time. I investigated,tried different batteries and plugged it in the pc and had to concur. It does not react at all. Black LCD,no battery logo,no even the power up vibration so I cannot access download mode. I understand the phone is now hard bricked.
I am extremely surprised the phone bricked over a certain period while I was not even flashing it. I did not flash it in the past 3 months. How could it get brick with no flash ?
I tried the SD Card image file from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860 but it did not work. However,I do not have a 16GB micro sd like the thread suggest using,so I will try again tomorrow after I buy one.
Any ideas regarding this situation ? Is the s3 dead completely ? Would a jtag service work ? Or the sd card method ?
Thanks.
kiwi32 said:
Good night xda,
I am once again turning to the forum for help,this time for my older SGS3. While I upgraded to the S4,I gave my ATT s3 to my sister. I've had the phone since it was released. It does not have any physical or water damage.
Initially,I had a custom rom on it and all was well. When I gave it to my sister she did not like the rom so I flashed the stock ATT rom back on it. She used the phone for about 6 months after that with no issue,but about a month ago she complained that the phone sometime shut down randomly with no warning. The screen just went black completely,sometimes when she was not using it at all. I did witness this a few times while looking at it so I was pretty puzzled with what could cause that.
Now yesterday,she called me because the phone was completely dead. It shut down randomly again but she was not able to power it up again this time. I investigated,tried different batteries and plugged it in the pc and had to concur. It does not react at all. Black LCD,no battery logo,no even the power up vibration so I cannot access download mode. I understand the phone is now hard bricked.
I am extremely surprised the phone bricked over a certain period while I was not even flashing it. I did not flash it in the past 3 months. How could it get brick with no flash ?
I tried the SD Card image file from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860 but it did not work. However,I do not have a 16GB micro sd like the thread suggest using,so I will try again tomorrow after I buy one.
Any ideas regarding this situation ? Is the s3 dead completely ? Would a jtag service work ? Or the sd card method ?
Thanks.
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is it possible that the LCD went bad?? when you plug it into charge does it react (lcd or vibrate?) I would also suggest trying out a known battery. could be that if it is the original battery that it is so dead that I got "spikey" and finaly just died.
hope it is that simple
kiwi32 said:
Good night xda,
I am once again turning to the forum for help,this time for my older SGS3. While I upgraded to the S4,I gave my ATT s3 to my sister. I've had the phone since it was released. It does not have any physical or water damage.
Initially,I had a custom rom on it and all was well. When I gave it to my sister she did not like the rom so I flashed the stock ATT rom back on it. She used the phone for about 6 months after that with no issue,but about a month ago she complained that the phone sometime shut down randomly with no warning. The screen just went black completely,sometimes when she was not using it at all. I did witness this a few times while looking at it so I was pretty puzzled with what could cause that.
Now yesterday,she called me because the phone was completely dead. It shut down randomly again but she was not able to power it up again this time. I investigated,tried different batteries and plugged it in the pc and had to concur. It does not react at all. Black LCD,no battery logo,no even the power up vibration so I cannot access download mode. I understand the phone is now hard bricked.
I am extremely surprised the phone bricked over a certain period while I was not even flashing it. I did not flash it in the past 3 months. How could it get brick with no flash ?
I tried the SD Card image file from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860 but it did not work. However,I do not have a 16GB micro sd like the thread suggest using,so I will try again tomorrow after I buy one.
Any ideas regarding this situation ? Is the s3 dead completely ? Would a jtag service work ? Or the sd card method ?
Thanks.
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If she wasn't trying to flash anything, doesn't sound like a brick which, to my understanding, results from software failures. The procedure posted in the thread applies when you are trying to recover from a brick caused by firmware failure from attempting to flash the wrong bootloader so I'd be doubtful if it would help you here. This could be a specific hardware failure which is not unheard of with equipment like this. Also sounds like it gave warning of the gradual failure. When you plug it into a charging outlet, does it show any sign of life - a light or vibration? If it's an LCD failure, it probably wouldn't affect charging or recognition by your PC. If there is no sign of life at all even with different batteries, you may want to try a professional repair service as I presume exercising the warranty is not an option in view of the firmware history.
Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
I did try different batteries. The phone does not vibrate or react at all even when plugged in which does not suggest an LCD failure.
I guess you are right,it must be a hardware failure. I'm quite suprised,I thought these phones were well buit and resistant.Oh well.
She's getting a Nexus 5 now.
Thanks for the help !