So I was having issues with my 4G the other day, I would turn it on, and it would just say "turning on 4g antenna" till it finally drained the battery, so I updated the wimax, (took about 2 min, if that...) and rebooted, tried 4g, and it turned on no problem. About 2 days ago, I had to do a nand backup, from before I flashed the wimax, and forgot to re-flash the wimax, so again today, while trying to use 4g, it got stuck on "turning on 4g antenna" again, so I rebooted, and still "turning on", went into nand, and wiped cache, and dalvik, and flashed the wimax zip again, it said reboot to complete the update, I did, and for the last 10 min or so, it has been on the screen with the htc phone, and green down arrow with circle around it.... I know it shouldnt take this long, so what'd I do wrong? Is it a brick now? Should I continue to let it do whatever its doin till it either finishes, or kills the battery? or pull the batt, and try a reboot?
Don't pull the battery, just give it some more time.
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been about 20 min now..... how long should I wait? and then what if it wont finish on its own?
Well, it shouldn't take that long. The only way to permanently brick your phone is during a radio update, and it's kind of risky to pull the battery. But you almost don't have a choice.
Hopefully if you pull the battery, it'll finish quickly when you put it back in. You aren't guaranteed to brick it by doing so, and it isn't a radio update so I don't know if wimax will brick your phone as well. I think in your situation it'll be okay to pull the battery, but if it doesn't turn on at all after putting the battery back then it never will.
Good luck, hope it works out for you!
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What does it say on the screen??
If I remember, if it says clearing cache, and has been there a long time, it's OK to reboot. Not pull the battery, just select reboot, if you can.
Been awhile since I flashed radios.
ya, after 40min, I pulled the batt, it did turn on again, but went right to the update screen (htc phone with grren arrow and circle around the arrow), cant get into fastboot, just right back to the update.... am I gonna have to tell sprint I "LOST" my phone now? lol
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Dosent say anything, just a pic of the phone with the green arrows....
If it's still updating then you can try to wait it out. As far as I know, there's no way around that screen.
You can continue to pull the battery over & over. I know someone was trying to brick their phone that way and it took multiple tries to actually get it to not turn on. If you can get to that point then you can just take it into Sprint. It'll never turn on, so they'll never know. Or if you feel like you need to pay the deductible, claim it lost. It sounds like your wimax was messed up already.
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If it's still updating then you can try to wait it out. As far as I know, there's no way around that screen.
You can continue to pull the battery over & over. I know someone was trying to brick their phone that way and it took multiple tries to actually get it to not turn on. If you can get to that point then you can just take it into Sprint. It'll never turn on, so they'll never know. Or if you feel like you need to pay the deductible, claim it lost. It sounds like your wimax was messed up already.
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Ya, I'm gonna just let it drain the battery, or start up.... whichever comes first....
Then I will prolly just keep pulling the battery till bricked.... No, I dont feel the need to pay the deductible so thanks for the tip!
I'm guessing there was something up with the wimax... IDK... Did I do anything wrong from the steps I listed above? did I forget to wipe something?
so it didnt take long to kill the battery.... lol
So, I have another battery.... I have verified that with the phone off, it does charge the battery, but no matter what I do, it goes right to the update screen... So I assume this is a brick? But... I have seen posts that if the batt charges, and the screen does come on, and show something, that its not truly bricked.... So, might I b able to do something here?
Any tips would be extremely appreciated at this point, before I really do fully brick it....
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Hi there...
So I have a slight issue. I've been away from the XDA community for a while now, and anyways, I came back and wanted to upgrade into the latest Fresh 3.5.0.1 Rom. So I downloaded it, new radios, and new pri pack, and put it on and went to work. Now that I'm here at work, I flashed 3.5, the new radios, and the new pri. Rebooted (I think I probably should have rebooted after flashing the rom, before loading up the others :-\). I got the wonderful green error arrow thing. I've had this happen before when flashing roms, so I pulled the battery, waited a few minutes, then put it back in. Pushed the power button, and now I have a brick. It won't power up at all.
So I need help, as I've never had a brick before and I'm stuck here at work, working on my mac laptop. Any advice on how to get the phone to start into recovery so I can nandroid backup would be wonderful.
Edit: I was upgrading from Fresh Evo 3.3.0.1. According to Fresh, I should have been able to flash this rom over my old version. :-\
Does anything happen when you try and power on? Ie does the phone vibrate and do anything at all? Also when you plug the phone on does the charging lite come on? I hate to say this but if you answer no to everything it looks like you may have a brick. But there is always hope.
I could be wrong but I think toy were suppose to boot the rom then flash the radios.
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Does anything happen when you try and power on? Ie does the phone vibrate and do anything at all? Also when you plug the phone on does the charging lite come on? I hate to say this but if you answer no to everything it looks like you may have a brick. But there is always hope.
I could be wrong but I think toy were suppose to boot the rom then flash the radios.
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No light with charging, not even the most faint bit of vibrating other than my own pulse I do have insurance on the phone however through Asurion or however you spell it.
Also, I was going to delete this thread before you posted here, as I realized too late that this isn't the question forum
Wrong forum maybe, but its already here so its all good. With what you said I would have to say you in fact have a brick unfortunately. I would work on trying to get a replacement from asuron. Sucks man, radios can be dangerous if something goes wrong in the process of flashing them.
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Wrong forum maybe, but its already here so its all good. With what you said I would have to say you in fact have a brick unfortunately. I would work on trying to get a replacement from asuron. Sucks man, radios can be dangerous if something goes wrong in the process of flashing them.
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I guess that's what I get for not being more active in the community >.>
Gonna check with Sprint during my lunch to see if they'll replace it for free as a defect ^.^
Sure would be nice not to have to pay that 100 dollar deductible.
Ya, unfortunately you probably pulled the battery while the radios were updating. Good thing you have insurance, because that Evo is done.
Why not take it to Sprint? Just say it stopped working. Make sure to delete any suspicious files from the SD card.
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Ya, unfortunately you probably pulled the battery while the radios were updating. Good thing you have insurance, because that Evo is done.
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I pulled the battery after I rebooted and it went to the green ! screen. :-\.
Wish the outcome was a little better!
Hi there...
So I have a slight issue. I've been away from the XDA community for a while now, and anyways, I came back and wanted to upgrade into the latest Fresh 3.5.0.1 Rom. So I downloaded it, new radios, and new pri pack, and put it on and went to work. Now that I'm here at work, I flashed 3.5, the new radios, and the new pri. Rebooted (I think I probably should have rebooted after flashing the rom, before loading up the others :-\). I got the wonderful green error arrow thing. I've had this happen before when flashing roms, so I pulled the battery, waited a few minutes, then put it back in. Pushed the power button, and now I have a brick. It won't power up at all.
So I need help, as I've never had a brick before and I'm stuck here at work, working on my mac laptop. Any advice on how to get the phone to start into recovery so I can nandroid backup would be wonderful.
Edit: I was upgrading from Fresh Evo 3.3.0.1. According to Fresh, I should have been able to flash this rom over my old version. :-\
Edit2: Realized that General wasn't a good place for my to ask my question, so I brought it over here.
Are you positive the battery didn't get super drained? Regardless, if possible, keep it on a charger in the meantime.
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Are you positive the battery didn't get super drained? Regardless, if possible, keep it on a charger in the meantime.
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My battery was around 95%.
Alright, and what is this about a green error arrow? Try removing the battery for a few minutes, again and see if it powers up. Keep it on a charger.
After it wouldn't turn on, I pulled the battery for about 5 minutes, then put it back in--nothing. It's sitting on the charger atm; I might stop in at the Sprint Store during my lunch break and see if they can replace it without me getting hit with the 100$ deductible from Asurion :-\
Well, keep it on the charger. By any chance, anyone else in the office that has an Evo where you can test the battery to make sure it didn't magically die on you?
If not, try putting the battery back in and holding the power for an extended time...like a minute. I have heard that to work on occasion.
The green arrow was downloading the radio img. I think your pretty much bricked when u pulled the battery u caused it to stop downloading the img. Dors it by any chance enter bootloader if not itsbricked
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The green arrow was downloading the radio img. I think your pretty much bricked when u pulled the battery u caused it to stop downloading the img. Dors it by any chance enter bootloader if not itsbricked
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Oh my...if he did pull during the radio download, most definitely bricked, unfortunately.
lcorona056248 said:
The green arrow was downloading the radio img. I think your pretty much bricked when u pulled the battery u caused it to stop downloading the img. Dors it by any chance enter bootloader if not itsbricked
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DOH! Yea then it's bricked. It doesn't boot at all.
I'm going to try to pull the battery and press power to see if that might not help some way.
>.<
This is what I get for trying to do this stuff while at work
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DOH! Yea then it's bricked. It doesn't boot at all.
I'm going to try to pull the battery and press power to see if that might not help some way.
>.<
This is what I get for trying to do this stuff while at work
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Nothing good happens at work...your mac got jealous of what it could never be.
But unfortunately, you're bricked. When you go see Sprint, don't tell 'em you were rooted..blah blah...say that your installed the latest OTA and its suddenly not responding.
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Nothing good happens at work...your mac got jealous of what it could never be.
But unfortunately, you're bricked. When you go see Sprint, don't tell 'em you were rooted..blah blah...say that your installed the latest OTA and its suddenly not responding.
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Right. Yea hopefully my boss will let me out for my lunch in about 45 minutes and then I'm going to head to the sprint store and see if I can get a phone headed this way asap. Thanks for all your help!
Random Question: Do you think they'll let me keep the mSD card if I tell them that I have a bunch of private information on it that I wouldn't want getting into the wrong hands? And secondly, if anyone has gotten refurbed units--do they send them with SD's equipped, or will I get to keep my old one?
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DOH! Yea then it's bricked. It doesn't boot at all.
I'm going to try to pull the battery and press power to see if that might not help some way.
>.<
This is what I get for trying to do this stuff while at work
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Yup, you're definitely bricked. That green arrow meant it was writing the radio image, and a battery pull during htat process almost gaurantees a brick. That sucks man. Before you go to Sprint, I would highly suggest you clear your sd card, either completely, or just ensure that there are no ROMS, flashable zips, or anything that will give the Sprint tech a clue that you've been rooted and flashing stuff. I've read where a phone was bricked and wouldnt turn on, so the Sprint guy wouldn't have known he was rooted, but he looked at the SD card, and saw ROMS, kernels, and other things that indicated the guy was rooted before. The tech was a jerk and wouldn't work on the phone and red flagged the account. Guy with broken phone = screwed. So yea, either remove your card before you, clear your card before you go, or remove all root/flash related zips and files from your card. Good luck man.
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Right. Yea hopefully my boss will let me out for my lunch in about 45 minutes and then I'm going to head to the sprint store and see if I can get a phone headed this way asap. Thanks for all your help!
Random Question: Do you think they'll let me keep the mSD card if I tell them that I have a bunch of private information on it that I wouldn't want getting into the wrong hands? And secondly, if anyone has gotten refurbed units--do they send them with SD's equipped, or will I get to keep my old one?
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Well if they are able to swap it right there, they should let you keep your sdcard, and they can keep the other one. And they would have to give you the phone as a "complete" unit, so it should come with an sdcard, and if so, you can keep it as an extra.
Also, just in case, take the sdcard out now and copy it to the mac, and remove all you "rooting" files, roms, kernels, ect and place back on the sdcard; in case they don't let you keep it...but they should.
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Well if they are able to swap it right there, they should let you keep your sdcard, and they can keep the other one. And they would have to give you the phone as a "complete" unit, so it should come with an sdcard, and if so, you can keep it as an extra.
Also, just in case, take the sdcard out now and copy it to the mac, and remove all you "rooting" files, roms, kernels, ect and place back on the sdcard; in case they don't let you keep it...but they should.
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Yea I pretty much deleted everything. Never know which files might look not good to have on there. My store isn't a full blown Sprint Store--I don't think they have any real smart tech people, but it never hurts to be safe. I'm still going to ask for the card regardless.
Thanks for your help everyone--I can't click thanks anymore today--apparently I'm limited to 5 per day!
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Yea I pretty much deleted everything. Never know which files might look not good to have on there. My store isn't a full blown Sprint Store--I don't think they have any real smart tech people, but it never hurts to be safe. I'm still going to ask for the card regardless.
Thanks for your help everyone--I can't click thanks anymore today--apparently I'm limited to 5 per day!
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True enough, but they should let you keep it. No troubles, just glad we got the heart of the issue resolved.
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True enough, but they should let you keep it. No troubles, just glad we got the heart of the issue resolved.
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The heart of the issue: My Stupidity
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The heart of the issue: My Stupidity
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Well, we all make mistake,s but its important that we learn from them.
Good luck man! Hopefully sprint will give you a refurbished evo
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Update:
So I received an express ordered replacement on Friday. I'm was super excited until I saw the screen. There is a thumbnail sized bright spot. I'm assuming that the phone I got was a refurb, but this makes slightly angry. Now I have to go to a repair center and probably get a screen swapped out or get a new phone ordered in. Worst part about it: it's a 45 minute drive to nearest repair shop. NO wait, I lied, the actual worst part about it is the fact that I can't root until I can get it fixed
Random question: I had been away from XDA scene for awhile. It looks like CM7 is looking pretty snazzy now with 4G functionality. Is there any downside at all anymore? Before it was because there was no 4g and no HDMI. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Take your sdcard out and then tell them you just downloaded the latest ota and I have had one refurb with card and one without either way KEEP Your sdcard
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OK, So here's my story. I plugged in my charger and I went downstairs. About 3o mins later I came back and the phone was still on, and it was super hot. Im running mexdroid V2fast and i've noticed that its been getting hot every once in awhile during charges and use.
THe phone was working and I rmoved the batt and let it cool down. I turned it on later and it was still working. I saw a movie and put it on silence and after the movie my screen went black. (six hours had past since the charge.)
I've removed batt and restarted the phone numerous times but it still wont work. SO I'm taking it into TMo.
Question, should I unroot the phone so they can replace it and if so, how can I unroot it without my screen working?
Or, should I just update the radio and pull the battery out, mid update? I've read this can cause hboot failure and the phone wont even turn on.
I'd prefer to keep my phone, I don't want a newer phone that isn't rootable. What should I do?
Can you get into recovery at all? You are supposed to to use setcpu for that rom because its overclocked to the max
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I still get the black screen. I do believe I have it but I didn't have it set to be overclocked all the way. I had it at 1170, something around there. I've never clocked this phone over 2k.
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I still get the black screen. I do believe I have it but I didn't have it set to be overclocked all the way. I had it at 1170, something around there. I've never clocked this phone over 2k.
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Okay. I made my previous statement because the first time I used the mex fast version my battery got crazy hot and freaked me out.
So black screen no matter what? If so how would you be able to see where the update process is in hboot?
Brick it dude lol..
Honestly I have no idea. Bricking it is up to you man
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updating the radio is easy enough without havion to look at the screen. I just have to time it and it's not that hard.
Any other suggestions from other users?
What did you decide to do? I fell on my phone and it still works but the screen is jacked up, blacked out. I'm debating on going through the hassle of unrooting or bricking. Has anyone ever had a problem just sending it in and getting a replacement? What is the worst thing that could happen?
BillY
Ok, i did a search but not much help.
i have been having reboot problems but i normally take the batt out and let it sit for a while and it boots back up.... reason why i have to pull the batt is because the reboots dont stop.
i was using the phone and it started to reboot... but now no matter how long i let it sit it wont boot back up... just reboot.
i did flash a splash screen using pc36img and it does work but thats it.. it reboots..
im going to try and let the phone "rest" for a couple of hours but i have a feeling that wont help this time.
anything else you guys can think off?
it wont boot into recovery either.. it did when i pull the SD card but i dont think the card it bad, since i took it off and placed it in my pc to add the new splash screen.
i was reading some threads and some people said they had hardware problems that where causing the reboots so this may be the case with me as well.
ideas?
Need more info... which ROM? Which radios? How's your signal? Etc
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Need more info... which ROM? Which radios? How's your signal? Etc
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well, i have been using the latest Miui with the latest radio update with PRI etc.
i have been having the reboot problem for a little while but like i said, i can normal solve it by pulling the battery and after a few minutes turning the phone back on.
no matter the rom, it still this did.
today we where having problems with the signal... we are getting 4g updates
but, i think think that would cause the phone not to boot up.
i could be wrong of course
Seeing as it doesn't appear to be a specific ROM issue, it could be a hardware issue, such as a bad memory block, which if that's the case, obviously there is little advice besides take it to Sprint and try to get a replacement phone.
But if that is the only solution, I'd advise you to wait until a root method for the latest ota is available because your replacement phone would come with the latest, unrooted firmware and you'd be stuck without root. So if dealing with the reboot issues is possible ( though I'm sure frustrating) I'd hold out for the potential root method to be released.
i was putting up with the reboots since i am planning on getting the evo 3d. but i need a phone. i havent touched it for a while so i hope that somehow helps lol but if not i plan on going to the sprint store tom morning as soon as the open.. i have an hour cause i have to be on base at 10:00 and i dont want to be without a phone all day.
hope they can give me a replacement and i dont have to wait for one to be shipped.
this sucks
the thing that kinda worries me is that they know i root my phones, hell i have shown them a few things as well as the Evo with it 1st came out.. i ordered by phone and they didnt have the phone till later.
anyways..
thanks for the help.. it has to be hardware related, dont think it can be anything else.
it it just booted but as soon as it got up and running it rebooted again... damn it
Well. Got a new out of the box evo. They didn't have any at the warehouse.
So here I am with a stock evo. Boo lol but no reboot problem, so I'm happy.
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So yesterday I was going to switch from PA to BeanStalk and ran into some problems, i restored back to PA.
Last night I went and downloaded LiquidSmooth I believe it is, went into recovery *cwm 6.0.2.7.* wiped data, cache, dalvik and formated system.. Installing the zip I ran into a status 7 error. I went to restore my nandroid from earlier in the day, my stable PA setup. No restore files could be found, internal, or external.
At this point I powered my phone off so take my micro sdcard out so I could download a rom through my laptop. While the rom was downloading I decided to go back to recovery to see if there was anything I was doing wrong there..I couldnt get to recovery. I couldnt get into download mode.. Plugging it in to the wall charger I wasnt even getting a charging light. I let it sit overnight on the charger and decided to start on it this morning..
Any button combo I do yields no result.. So I'm fearing this may be a toasted device.. If anyone has insight please let me know.. Much thanks..
plugging my phone into usb cable to laptop, driver goes to install: 'qhsusb_dload no driver found
looking this up in google just re-enforces my suspicions..
yeah dude your phone is now a doorstop. this happened to me once as a noob android "modder" as i was trying to install an rom made for the international version of the gs3 (i9300) onto my north american at&t gs3
(SGH-I747). luckily i was on warranty and got a new one for free. hopefully you are on warranty as well.
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So yesterday I was going to switch from PA to BeanStalk and ran into some problems, i restored back to PA.
Last night I went and downloaded LiquidSmooth I believe it is, went into recovery *cwm 6.0.2.7.* wiped data, cache, dalvik and formated system.. Installing the zip I ran into a status 7 error. I went to restore my nandroid from earlier in the day, my stable PA setup. No restore files could be found, internal, or external.
At this point I powered my phone off so take my micro sdcard out so I could download a rom through my laptop. While the rom was downloading I decided to go back to recovery to see if there was anything I was doing wrong there..I couldnt get to recovery. I couldnt get into download mode.. Plugging it in to the wall charger I wasnt even getting a charging light. I let it sit overnight on the charger and decided to start on it this morning..
Any button combo I do yields no result.. So I'm fearing this may be a toasted device.. If anyone has insight please let me know.. Much thanks..
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Beanstalk 4.3??? Cause team chopsticks are saying there's a bug that can brick a phone maybe. So they suggest everyone wait before building or flashing cm based 4.3 roms.
****edit**** sorry ignore. Misread the first bit. You were on Beanstalk, nandroided back to pa, then tried liquid smooth. I got it now. Hope you figure it out!
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Beanstalk 4.3??? Cause team chopsticks are saying there's a bug that can brick a phone maybe. So they suggest everyone wait before building or flashing cm based 4.3 roms.
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BeanStalk 4.3 was yesterday morning. I had a hard time getting it to boot back up after wiping cache n dalvik. It was really unresponsive, holding buttons and releasing took forever to yield a result. So there was alot of battery pulling and buttons. I got pissed and just said **** it and left it alone and it booted up, I booted to recovery and switch back the Paranoid Android. There was a small handful of people in the thread all kinda saying the same thing, long delays and unresponsive..
My PA setup was stable, I've had it on for months.. I was in a flash kinda mood so I decided to try a different rom, something not 4.3 based.. So I downloaded the LiquidSmooth rom but it error'd during installing.. I wasnt able to restore, And when I shut it down it just seems I couldnt get it back up to do anything..
It could be a combination of events.. Just a minor bump in the road.. Not the first phone I had brick..
Eh.. Guess I get a new phone..
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BeanStalk 4.3 was yesterday morning. I had a hard time getting it to boot back up after wiping cache n dalvik. It was really unresponsive, holding buttons and releasing took forever to yield a result. So there was alot of battery pulling and buttons. I got pissed and just said **** it and left it alone and it booted up, I booted to recovery and switch back the Paranoid Android. There was a small handful of people in the thread all kinda saying the same thing, long delays and unresponsive..
My PA setup was stable, I've had it on for months.. I was in a flash kinda mood so I decided to try a different rom, something not 4.3 based.. So I downloaded the LiquidSmooth rom but it error'd during installing.. I wasnt able to restore, And when I shut it down it just seems I couldnt get it back up to do anything..
It could be a combination of events.. Just a minor bump in the road.. Not the first phone I had brick..
Eh.. Guess I get a new phone..
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Insurance wont cover it, TMobile is shipping one out under warranty protection.. Do they go back into the phones that are sent back and look at them or what??
Nah your good all they do is connect it to there program and restore it they have capabilities we dont lol
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20twins10 said:
So yesterday I was going to switch from PA to BeanStalk and ran into some problems, i restored back to PA.
Last night I went and downloaded LiquidSmooth I believe it is, went into recovery *cwm 6.0.2.7.* wiped data, cache, dalvik and formated system.. Installing the zip I ran into a status 7 error. I went to restore my nandroid from earlier in the day, my stable PA setup. No restore files could be found, internal, or external.
At this point I powered my phone off so take my micro sdcard out so I could download a rom through my laptop. While the rom was downloading I decided to go back to recovery to see if there was anything I was doing wrong there..I couldnt get to recovery. I couldnt get into download mode.. Plugging it in to the wall charger I wasnt even getting a charging light. I let it sit overnight on the charger and decided to start on it this morning..
Any button combo I do yields no result.. So I'm fearing this may be a toasted device.. If anyone has insight please let me know.. Much thanks..
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Yeah dude that's a brick...sucks but no T-Mobile doesn't look into the device just basically do a higher form of JTAG an completely wipe the hardware to start over, or if it's real bad they just junk for parts and build somebody else a "refurbished" phone, there system makes the best dev look like a noob lol
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Yeah dude that's a brick...sucks but no T-Mobile doesn't look into the device just basically do a higher form of JTAG an completely wipe the hardware to start over, or if it's real bad they just junk for parts and build somebody else a "refurbished" phone, there system makes the best dev look like a noob lol
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I got a laugh out of that, but I'm sure its true. With the amount of phones on the market, I'd love to know the percentage they take back in and replace.. It's gotta be astounding.. It's a small thorn in my side for a day and a half, but my phone should be here before noon. I just gotta go and find my rootkit folder and get it all ready
This is the 2nd phone I've wound up bricking. I didnt get my first true smart phone till October 3yrs ago. HTC droid incredible.. that phone was seriously tuffer then nails.. It was dropped so many times, i just stopped caring if it fell cause i knew it would be ok.. Went down a flight of wood steps into my basement during a call and didnt blink.. I wound up melting the back cover to the battery once, my daughters * i have twins* were destroying something and I had torch on looking for something. I wound up putting the phone down on a towel w/ torch on facedown.. I got busy cleaning what they messed up and by the time I remembered my phone I went to get it and it shut down as I picked it up.. It was extremely hot and around the LED you could see a ripple from where it melted. I pulled everything apart, let it cool off for like 10minutes and it booted right back up.. It bricked way later on, I was way more flash happy back then, then I am now. I'm pickier now, back then I was just trying anything..
This sII was bought in October of last year. But it's seen its number or battery pulls and restores.. Tomorrow we will follow up the same..
20twins10 said:
I got a laugh out of that, but I'm sure its true. With the amount of phones on the market, I'd love to know the percentage they take back in and replace.. It's gotta be astounding.. It's a small thorn in my side for a day and a half, but my phone should be here before noon. I just gotta go and find my rootkit folder and get it all ready
This is the 2nd phone I've wound up bricking. I didnt get my first true smart phone till October 3yrs ago. HTC droid incredible.. that phone was seriously tuffer then nails.. It was dropped so many times, i just stopped caring if it fell cause i knew it would be ok.. Went down a flight of wood steps into my basement during a call and didnt blink.. I wound up melting the back cover to the battery once, my daughters * i have twins* were destroying something and I had torch on looking for something. I wound up putting the phone down on a towel w/ torch on facedown.. I got busy cleaning what they messed up and by the time I remembered my phone I went to get it and it shut down as I picked it up.. It was extremely hot and around the LED you could see a ripple from where it melted. I pulled everything apart, let it cool off for like 10minutes and it booted right back up.. It bricked way later on, I was way more flash happy back then, then I am now. I'm pickier now, back then I was just trying anything..
This sII was bought in October of last year. But it's seen its number or battery pulls and restores.. Tomorrow we will follow up the same..
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Yeah we've all bricked a device lol, I had a Samsung galaxy precedent that I beat to sh*t, threw, dropped, whatever n it always booted, still to this day actually lol its sitting in a draw somewhere, my daughter plays games on it lol, but yes honestly the amount of s2s that have been refurbished is astounding my buddy is a tech for T-Mobile which is how I know all this but they hardly ever even send u back the same device when u send for repair, just junk it for a new refurb, wipe and restore the broken one and someone else gets it lol, there tough and almost unbrickable but almost is the key word, how u bricked urs though is strange, I've never had it happen like that before, good luck with the new one and switch to twrp, much better recovery for all the new roms out there
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I got this phone under the "free" section of craigslist.(lucky me)
this phone was perfect, no cracked screen, no scratches, just a bump in the side. The only major problem was that this phone was hard bricked.
What I did was that I went to ebay, and found a random seller with decent reviews for JTAG service. The whole thing cost about 40 dollars. (since I got the phone free, I would only lose $40 if this was a scam)
This dude was really nice! I got my GS2 back within a week completely fixed. with stock touchwiz loaded and prerooted alerady
new phone arrived a few hours ago. been running some errands and such.. now to root this one.. tmobile picked the tab up on this one..
so i threw cwm recovery on via odin, flashed my superuser zip. it failed a couple times, 3rd time it took.. booted up and titanium couldnt get access.. in the su update fixer its also failing at "gaining root access"..
any idea's?