This is probably completely a result of my stupidity but I rooted my phone a while ago. I had a nandroid back up set before i flashed to any custom roms just in case anything happened. Then i flashed to the back up again and wasn't running any custom roms. it was just still rooted because i never got a chance to unroot it. I then installed an update not thinking about it at all and im pretty sure bricked my phone. When it first happened it had two green arrows in a circle around another green arrow pointing down at a picture of a phone. I pulled the battery and drove home all day. I just got home and tried to turn it on and nothing is working. The charge light is not coming on when it is plugged in, vol up+ power and vol down+power button doesnt work. it seems like nothing i can do can turn this phone on. any ideas on how i can fix this?
ps. i have also checked and made sure the battery works and everything
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This is probably completely a result of my stupidity but I rooted my phone a while ago. I had a nandroid back up set before i flashed to any custom roms just in case anything happened. Then i flashed to the back up again and wasn't running any custom roms. it was just still rooted because i never got a chance to unroot it. I then installed an update not thinking about it at all and im pretty sure bricked my phone. When it first happened it had two green arrows in a circle around another green arrow pointing down at a picture of a phone. I pulled the battery and drove home all day. I just got home and tried to turn it on and nothing is working. The charge light is not coming on when it is plugged in, vol up+ power and vol down+power button doesnt work. it seems like nothing i can do can turn this phone on. any ideas on how i can fix this?
ps. i have also checked and made sure the battery works and everything
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seems like you bricked it, your not support to pull out during any installation radios,updates..etc. keep it on the charger for a while and then try to boot up or try to go into hboot again
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seems like you bricked it, your not support to pull out during any installation radios,updates..etc. keep it on the charger for a while and then try to boot up or try to go into hboot again
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i didnt pull during the installation. i let it download and install and it rebooted by itself. so it seems like everything was installed properly it just bricked afterwards any idea? thanks for the help though
If you pulled the battery during the arrow pointing at the phone stage, you're bricked. That was most likely a radio update, and pulling the battery during that will give you a phone that'll never turn on again.
When exactly did you pull the battery?
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yeah, you can't pull the bettery with that logo on, sometimes after an update the phone will go into that mode where it seems unresponsive but it always pulls through. If you pulled it out during that time then the previous posters are correct and you likely have a very handy paper weight (hope you have insurance, or have a clean phone that has no damage so you can claim a warranty issue). If you didn't pull the battery during this time and it just died or powered off on you then you could have a battery issue, while unlikely it doesn't mean that it isn't possible. I would take the advice and let it sit on the charger overnight, if that doesn't wory then I would just take it to sprint and play dumb. If it's bricked and won't turn on then they won't be able to tell that it was rooted, just say you plugged it in at night and woke up and it was dead. Not that i'm an advocate of screwing sprint, but we put up with ****ty wimax so whatcha gonna do....
yep, if you got insurance just go to sprint and tell them you updated to 2.3 and then it just shut off
damn, i didnt realize that it was still updating. thanks for the heads up, it's definitely bricked lol but i have insurance thankfully. best way to go about getting a new phone? is there a specific excuse i should use or just play dumb? but thanks for all the help. i really do appreciate it
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damn, i didnt realize that it was still updating. thanks for the heads up, it's definitely bricked lol but i have insurance thankfully. best way to go about getting a new phone? is there a specific excuse i should use or just play dumb? but thanks for all the help. i really do appreciate it
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As others before me have stated, just tell sprint that you ran the "new update" and it restarted your phone and now it does not work.
Make sure you don't mention anything about being rooted or pulling out the battery....
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As others before me have stated, just tell sprint that you ran the "new update" and it restarted your phone and now it does not work.
Make sure you don't mention anything about being rooted or pulling out the battery....
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okay thanks again!
Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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So insurance premium raising never has to do with wanting higher profits? And this whole time I thought insurance companies were blood suckers.
All jokes aside, insurance fraud is not cool.
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So insurance premium raising never has to do with wanting higher profits? And this whole time I thought insurance companies were blood suckers.
All jokes aside, insurance fraud is not cool.
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insurance companies deserve to pay. Especially auto insurance. ****ing highway robbery.
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Gotta love Insurance fraud! No wonder my insurance premium just went up.
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It wasn't root that bricked his phone, it was HTC and Sprint pushing an update without instructing users properly. He pulled the battery thinking it was stuck. It was an accident. Just like dropping or losing your phone. That's what insurance is for.
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possibly bricked evo 4g's
i just received 2 evo 4g's from a friend that couldn't get them to start up and was wondering if there was a procedure beside power and down volume buttons...i have tried holding them down for about 5 mins and also just holding down the power button by itself to no avail.....any help would be greatly appreciated.....
ps they were plugged in all night and also made sure the battery was working by putting it on another evo and they also work....just wanted to see if anything else comes to mind.....btw they are out of contract so no insurance..
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The last screen I saw was an android out of the box. I pulled the battery and now my device refuses to turn on. Bricked?
Also, if I send the device back to Sprint and claim that the OTA did this, will they know I was messing with root and roms? And how can I prevent this?
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Also, if I send the device back to Sprint and claim that the OTA did this, will they know I was messing with root and roms? And how can I prevent this?
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what exactly were you doing that led to this "bricking"?
Android out of the box that sounds like it was writting the radio if the battery was pulled that's a really bad thing
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I flashed Fresh's 0.5.3 along with the new radio and noob's JIT patch all in one shot. Rebooted, hung at the Android out of the box. And I battery pulled.
I called Sprint and they told me to take it down to a service center. I'm looking through my microSD from remnants of rooting and flashing. Do you think they can salvage what's on the system ROM?
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I flashed Fresh's 0.5.3 along with the new radio and noob's JIT patch all in one shot. Rebooted, hung at the Android out of the box. And I battery pulled.
I called Sprint and they told me to take it down to a service center. I'm looking through my microSD from remnants of rooting and flashing. Do you think they can salvage what's on the system ROM?
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oh wow.. dude, that's a bit of a big bite. pulling the battery may have been the cause.
what sprint is most likely going to do is boot into the bootloader and wipe user data (hard reset). you can pull the "the ota update killed it" reason (as i told them before i got mine to start working again). you can't turn it on at all??
Refuses to power on or boot?
Power: does it charge? Or indicate that it does?
Keep holding power while putting in battery.
Connect usb cable with battery out of the phone.
Boot: hold vol down + power together to boot into boot.
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It refuses to power on. I've tried all of the above.
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It refuses to power on. I've tried all of the above.
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if you plug it in the usb, is there a light to show that it's charging?
No LED light to indicate that it's charging. Not even the slightest hint that it's still alive. If I could've gotten to the bootloader all would've been well.
I'm worried that when I bring it to Sprint, they'll salvage what's on the ROM and realize that I've been rooting and flashing. I hope the ROM is unreadable. Maybe that's the reason why it won't turn on.
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No LED light to indicate that it's charging. Not even the slightest hint that it's still alive. If I could've gotten to the bootloader all would've been well.
I'm worried that when I bring it to Sprint, they'll salvage what's on the ROM and realize that I've been rooting and flashing. I hope the ROM is unreadable. Maybe that's the reason why it won't turn on.
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yea, it does sound like it. just to give you a heads up though, evos are pretty sold out everywhere. i went to the corporate store here in nj and i called them up as well, no dice. they are sold out.
I'll wait as long as I get a free replacement
EDIT: Back to my dreaded Samsung Instinct.
this just happened to me.
did op get an ETA on a new phone?
I called Sprint tech support and they told me to bring it in to a Sprint Service Repair store (Use the store locator and find one that repairs). I told them the update did it. Luckily, they had a replacement in stock. They took it out of a refurbished looking box, but it seems to be brand new . I hate to cheat the system and I sort of feel guilty about it. But that guilt is overridden by the fact that I have a brand new Evo in my hands .
i tried updating my radio to the newest one...so i clicked it...looked away and i had a gray screen then the phone turned off....now it wont power back on at all...not even in recovery...and when plugged into a/c power i dont even get the amber light...what the hell should i do....thanks
What do you mean, you clicked it? Which of the two radio versions? Were you in recovery, ROM Manager, etc..? More detail!
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i tried updating my radio to the newest one...so i clicked it...looked away and i had a gray screen then the phone turned off....now it wont power back on at all...not even in recovery...and when plugged into a/c power i dont even get the amber light...what the hell should i do....thanks
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are you rooted or stock? this happened to me once, but it seems that i had a bad rom install. i was able to boot into recovery mode and just restore my nandroid backup of the previous rom. hope this helps.
if you're not even getting the charging light, you're most probably bricked. sorry man.
RIP to your Evo.
i downloaded the newest radio like 7.28,,,then was in rom manager and selected the radio to install from sd card,,,clicked ok...i looked away for maybe 10 seconds and then i saw an all gray screen...then it powered off...now i cant get it to turn on...yes i was rooted...
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i downloaded the newest radio like 7.28,,,then was in rom manager and selected the radio to install from sd card,,,clicked ok...i looked away for maybe 10 seconds and then i saw an all gray screen...then it powered off...now i cant get it to turn on...yes i was rooted...
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I know may sound stupid but remove battery for a minute or so and try again... was your batt low when u started the update? May just have to wait for a bit of charge b4 it will turn back on...not sure if this will help but hopefully it will. Best luck to ya.
no...battery was nearly fully charged...and battery has been out for about 20 minutes...im thinking its bricked...anyone got any ideas? also...what do can i say when i take it into sprint..
I Think its bricked :/
But about your phone if it is bricked, i would say i lost it and keep the battery and sd and pay insurance to get a new one.
its hundred bucks for a new one...i was installing a htc radio,,,thinking its covered under manufactured warranty,,,also got 2 batteries for 8 dollars so not a great deal lol
My friend who is a manager at a store said that now that its legal to root a phone its still covered under warranty so is try takin it in
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My friend who is a manager at a store said that now that its legal to root a phone its still covered under warranty so is try takin it in
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soo...the manufacture warranty isnt void?
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My friend who is a manager at a store said that now that its legal to root a phone its still covered under warranty so is try takin it in
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Yea its legal and your friend is probably a cool dude and don't care and will warranty them but unfortunately they don't have to honor the warranty if user changes / modifies software that was not ota or provided by HTC or Sprint. Use at your own risk.
I would'nt tell them you tried messing with the software. I would just say you woke up this morning tried to turn on the phone and it would not turn on. Tell them you turn your phone off every night when you go to bed, keep it simple.
It's void if they know about it. That's what they said on g4 atots when they did the special on jailbreaking and rooting. But will they know if it don't turn on? I assume they (htc) would just flash new software on it and give it out as refurbished.
alright thanks guys...but it was the htc software lol...new radio update...idk,,maybe that dont count since someone had to extract it.,..but thanks guys
Its a long shot but wait a couple days for the update to come out and tell them you tried to update and it did that......
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Yes, it is legal via an exemption to the DMCA to root/jailbreak a phone - HOWEVER, if you break the phone by doing this, it isn't going to be covered under the warranty. The warranty still only covers normal use, and hacking, however legal, isn't normal use. Sorry dude. Magnusson Moss Warranty Act, look it up. Warranty doesn't cover when you break the thing yourself, only when a manufacturer / latent defect causes a failure.
It really depends on which sprint store you go to. I always go to a 3rd party Sprint repair shop near my house. I had a rooted hero to 2.1; when the evo came out i bought one and took the hero to the sprint shop to update to the official 2.1 version to give to my dad. When they tried updating it, the phone would never fully boot so they gave us a brand new one. yes they new it was rooted and had a custom rom, i had talked to them that day and before about it and they didnt care.
anyway, best of luck in this situation. If you dont have a cool sprints guys than i would take sprink's advice and say you woke up and it wouldnt turn on. if there is no damage, what can they do?
^ Good luck with that...legal or not, he screwed the phone up. Not a warranty issue...
Just seen this thread they might be able to help you out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=735686
Same thing happened to me...
I tried to restart my Evo today and the same thing happened. I took it to the Sprint store and the tech there said that the power button actually failed, and that they had to ship me a replacement. From what he was saying this has happened on a few of the Evos.
Ouch brick. Bring it back play stupid. I bet the issue was using rom manager to flash a radio. A radio isnt a ROM its the MOST IMPORTANT piece of code the phone has and a sure fire way to brick it if you mess it up. I wouldnt use rom manager other than to boot into recovery
Hello all, today my power button has gone out totally unresponsive not sure if it was CM7 or just its time to go...however of course Sprint won't replace it until I uproot it. Please tell me there is a way this can be done via desktop or some way while avoiding having to use the power button. Please help! Thanks in advance
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toya10 said:
Hello all, today my power button has gone out totally unresponsive not sure if it was CM7 or just its time to go...however of course Sprint won't replace it until I uproot it. Please tell me there is a way this can be done via desktop or some way while avoiding having to use the power button. Please help! Thanks in advance
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First off it wasn't CM7 people blame roms for hardware issues not right. Your phone power button is spanked. You could either break your volume button to and they won't get it to turn on they will just swap it out . Don't blame a rom for the issue like people claim roms break cameras not true.
I'm not blaming the Rom simply saying that's what im on and not sure what caused it to go out. But any ideas on how to uproot without the power button that's my main thing. I love cm but my concern isn't the Rom but getting a working phone.
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Easy way to reboot without your power button & without using adb, is to just download rom manager. Once in rom manager select reboot recovery. Once you are in recovery you can use the volume buttons and select reboot system. Hold down the down volume keys immediately after this and it should bring you into the HBOOT screen.
Put this PC36IMG.zip on your sd card and run it. http://bit.ly/FroyoRUU
Note if you flashed thru unrevoked method please run the S-ON tool first
Go into recovery and flash the S-On zip first before running the PC36IMG
link for s-on here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
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Easy way to reboot without your power button & without using adb, is to just download rom manager. Once in rom manager select reboot recovery. Once you are in recovery you can use the volume buttons and select reboot system. Hold down the down volume keys immediately after this and it should bring you into the HBOOT screen.
Put this PC36IMG.zip on your sd card and run it. http://bit.ly/FroyoRUU
Note if you flashed thru unrevoked method please run the S-ON tool first
Go into recovery and flash the S-On zip first before running the PC36IMG
link for s-on here http://downloads.unrevoked.com/forever/current/unrevoked-forever-son.zip
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He's going to need to power button the navigate to use recovery.
Buy a power button replacemnt should b cheap nw google it
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Ahh I had totally forgot about that. Well only option I can think of is to just run an RUU, but my question is why don't you just pull the battery, if sprint can't turn the phone back on then it shouldn't matter right?
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I'm not blaming the Rom simply saying that's what im on and not sure what caused it to go out. But any ideas on how to uproot without the power button that's my main thing. I love cm but my concern isn't the Rom but getting a working phone.
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Well u said I don't know if it was cm or the power buttons time to go. Its a hardware issue sprint will try to fix it but will end up giving u a refurbished unit. Lol just saying its not the rom.
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Well u said I don't know if it was cm or the power buttons time to go. Its a hardware issue sprint will try to fix it but will end up giving u a refurbished unit. Lol just saying its not the rom.
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ok my apologies didn't realize I would be taken so literally. I was not trying to offend I simply don't know why it stopped. Its not just the power button the plastic piece. You can do a battery pull but when you put the battery back in of course it powers up..its just when the phone has powered up and goes to sleep the only way to wake it up is to call it. I can hear the notifications etc coming in but the power button is unresponsive. I took my phone to the Sprint I always go to those guys are cool. He said it was something that went out in the circuitry of the power button and I need a new phone he said get it unrooted bring it back and Ill replace it. That's all I am simply trying to do. Blaming a ROM was not my attention, didn't know it would be taken so defensively. I thought about those things you guys said I even fast booted into recovery and got stuck because of course I couldn't hit the power but to enter so thus another battery pull. What if I get the HTC Andrioid Rom utility update cant i do that using HTC Sync then it should recognize its rooted, unroot it and put it back on 2.1 which I will then have to update to 2.2? Im trying to figure any work around out I can to make this happen. Thanks for you guys input...
It's all good man just some people blame roms for there problems just making sure you know some of the older evos had power button issues.
I know the problem your talking about is common on the HTC touch pro 2 I have one of those and it has the SOD problem phone will not wake .
Unless you call it or pull battery it doesn't hang all the time. Called screen of death phone won't wake up.
I really don't know how you will be able to unroot did u use unrevoked 3 or another program some of the unroot programs have a exe you can run if you can get into bootloader . get the latest radio and Ruu bundle and try that read up on it.
Really depends on what you used to root it tho.
If all else fails go through asurion you could break it beyond repair and pay 100 to get another one if your lucky you might get a new one.
I may have used unrevoked but to be honest Im not sure I rooted back in August or sept
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My power button has failed too. I am not worried about taking it in with the phone rooted because this is a hardware failure and has nothing to do with the software. The button seems to be stuck on because even after taking out the battery, the phone turns back on as soon as it is put back in.
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My power button has failed too. I am not worried about taking it in with the phone rooted because this is a hardware failure and has nothing to do with the software. The button seems to be stuck on because even after taking out the battery, the phone turns back on as soon as it is put back in.
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My sentiments exactly however, when I took it in and they put the battery back in they wouldnt exchange it because of the root. The tech said I cant send this phone in and its clearly rooted something in the root could have shorted out the button...I gave him the dude really look, but although its a hardware issue they wouldn't do it
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My sentiments exactly however, when I took it in and they put the battery back in they wouldnt exchange it because of the root. The tech said I cant send this phone in and its clearly rooted something in the root could have shorted out the button...I gave him the dude really look, but although its a hardware issue they wouldn't do it
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That's why I keep telling people to unroot when they take a device in for servicing...
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That's why I keep telling people to unroot when they take a device in for servicing...
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Well that is what I have been attempting to do...every one is soooooo tech saavy but I seemed to have baffled everyone with the non use of the power button to unroot.
By chance do you know how to unroot without the power button. I am on CM so not a sense based rom therefore I cannot go through HTC Sync to try and unroot that way. If you know how please please I beg of you enlighten me.
Interesting. I'll let you know how it turns out.
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Well that is what I have been attempting to do...every one is soooooo tech saavy but I seemed to have baffled everyone with the non use of the power button to unroot.
By chance do you know how to unroot without the power button. I am on CM so not a sense based rom therefore I cannot go through HTC Sync to try and unroot that way. If you know how please please I beg of you enlighten me.
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Well without the power button, you may not get s-on, because you need the power button to select. By any chance do you have like a jeweler's flat tip screw driver? Something small that you may be able to press on the button harder than your finger normally would, since then it may register?
But unrooting, yes, it can be done by removing the sdcard from the phone, mounting to a pc via card adapter, placing the PC36IMG of the 3.70 RUU on the phone, and booting into the bootloader. But again, you'd need the power button to make the selection...so a small flat tip item may be your savior here.
Ok...just got home. The rep asked me if the phone was rooted, and I told him it was. He then told me that rooting the phone voids the warranty. I said I can take it home and unroot it, but he asked me to hold on while he talked to the tech. The tech agreed to look at it. Three hours later, I returned and the tech said he tried a few things (compressed air, motherboard connection) but was unable to fix it. Replacement phone ordered.
Ok here is my update. No screw driver would work for the power button it wasnt the plastic piece it was the wiring or whatever going to the main board of the phone that was no longer functioning. Sprint still was like nope this isnt good enough I said screw it. Got a friends phone went to be Best Buy expecting a fight but NOPE those guys were great. He looked at my phone he tried the power button did my work around. He said yup hardware issue. He then said your rooted huh? I hesitantly said yes...but...he interrupted its cool just needed to know so we can can handle it and get it back to where it needs to be before we send it out. He then purused my phone after asking did I mind. He said hmmmm cm7 gb you like it? He said sweet boot screen where did you get that was it flashed normally? I was like uhh yeah he then whipped out his phone I believe he was on MIUI he said he was planning on flashing CM7 well after all the geek talk we exchanged my EVO is order and I should have a new one by Thursday! SO HA Sprint on you! YAY I'm so excited! They were also impressed with my geek talk probably because im a girl but whatever. So I guess two happy endings! Thank God
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Ok here is my update. No screw driver would work for the power button it wasnt the plastic piece it was the wiring or whatever going to the main board of the phone that was no longer functioning. Sprint still was like nope this isnt good enough I said screw it. Got a friends phone went to be Best Buy expecting a fight but NOPE those guys were great. He looked at my phone he tried the power button did my work around. He said yup hardware issue. He then said your rooted huh? I hesitantly said yes...but...he interrupted its cool just needed to know so we can can handle it and get it back to where it needs to be before we send it out. He then purused my phone after asking did I mind. He said hmmmm cm7 gb you like it? He said sweet boot screen where did you get that was it flashed normally? I was like uhh yeah he then whipped out his phone I believe he was on MIUI he said he was planning on flashing CM7 well after all the geek talk we exchanged my EVO is order and I should have a new one by Thursday! SO HA Sprint on you! YAY I'm so excited! They were also impressed with my geek talk probably because im a girl but whatever. So I guess two happy endings! Thank God
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Hahaha I love this
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okay so here is the deal. i have a samsung epic 4g and i had it fully charged just yesterday and was playing around with it then set it down and went to bed. when i woke up in the morning it was completely dead. would not turn on what so ever, i proceeded to plug my charger in and nothing... no charge light and nothing when i tried the power button. it refused to turn on or even charge.
i have already tried many things i found on the web like hard reset, download mode and recovery. but no button combinations work. i even tried a battery that was fully charged from a friends samsung galaxy 2 and his usb charger which i no works. it would not turn on with the power button or any button combination and would not charge or even show any lights.
so idk what is going on. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! :good:
Need more info, rom? Overclocked? What were u playing around with?
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Need more info, rom? Overclocked? What were u playing around with?
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its completely stock. idk what version its on or anything cause it wont turn on. i was just playing some games on it and thats it.
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its completely stock. idk what version its on or anything cause it wont turn on. i was just playing some games on it and thats it.
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sounds like a hardware failure, try taking it to sprint and they *MIGHT* fix it for $30 or replace it for (I think) $100 with insurance. If you want, find a working one with failures like power button or broken screens and just switch the motherboards from that one to the one you have, make sure you exchange the stickers on the back as well. But make sure it also has a clean ESN
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sounds like a hardware failure, try taking it to sprint and they *MIGHT* fix it for $30 or replace it for (I think) $100 with insurance. If you want, find a working one with failures like power button or broken screens and just switch the motherboards from that one to the one you have, make sure you exchange the stickers on the back as well. But make sure it also has a clean ESN
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well i guess there is not much else i can do. i will probally just take it to sprint and get an estimate. if its to spendy i will probally just repair it myself. thanks for ur help :good:
Hey guys, this is my first time on this site, I was given this forum from a friend. Anyways, I just had an upgrade today with spring to their Samsung Galaxy S2. I attempted to root the new phone using Heimdall because it was compatible with my Mac instead of Odin. Somewhere along the root the phone became bricked with a flashing blue LED light. I'm unable to get anywhere with it, I've tried to remove the battery for an extended amount of time, attempted to get back to the download screen via volume down & power, tried the holding home with volume down & power button together, . The battery was at full charge during the root so I'm not quite sure what went wrong. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I don't know which ROM may of been flashed either...
You've hard bricked. There is no recovering unless a JTAG can fix it.
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Not trying to bash you, but if today was your first day after upgrading to a new phone, you should've probably researched our phone a little bit and how to properly root it before attempting to do so.
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Not trying to bash you, but if today was your first day after upgrading to a new phone, you should've probably researched our phone a little bit and how to properly root it before attempting to do so.
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Yeah, I definitely agree with you. Wasn't very smart on my part. I'm going to take it into the sprint store in the morning and tell them it kept giving me system updates so that's the reason it froze my phone. I should be able to exchange it because it's only a day old. I went in right before close and the guy told me the battery just needed to be charged, which obviously wasn't the case but they won't know that.
jhow2319 said:
Yeah, I definitely agree with you. Wasn't very smart on my part. I'm going to take it into the sprint store in the morning and tell them it kept giving me system updates so that's the reason it froze my phone. I should be able to exchange it because it's only a day old. I went in right before close and the guy told me the battery just needed to be charged, which obviously wasn't the case but they won't know that.
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Is the blue led flashing or solid? If its flashing usually if you charge the battery in a separate device/external charger or swap the battery for one fully charged from an external source it'll work. Blinking led usually means the battery is too low to fully boot the device
Solid blue led on the other hand means you're FUBAR and need a replacement
I like to break stuff!
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Is the blue led flashing or solid? If its flashing usually if you charge the battery in a separate device/external charger or swap the battery for one fully charged from an external source it'll work. Blinking led usually means the battery is too low to fully boot the device
Solid blue led on the other hand means you're FUBAR and need a replacement
I like to break stuff!
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Solid blue I think I should be good to go tomorrow without any hassle because I bought it from them this afternoon. They saw me come back in right before close so the employee told me the wrong information & thought the phone was good when it wasn't.
jhow2319 said:
Solid blue I think I should be good to go tomorrow without any hassle because I bought it from them this afternoon. They saw me come back in right before close so the employee told me the wrong information & thought the phone was good when it wasn't.
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For reference, can you include a link to what you tried to flash?
Let's make sure the next phone gets rooted without the BLOD...
Here is what you do....take it back to sprint... Tell them it kept saying you had some sort of update.. So you clicked " update " ....then say it rebooted a few times and the last time it never came back on... They should replace it free.... Dont mention rooting or anything else...
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