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[Q] Did I really just true-brick my E4GT?

Ok, I switched up from the Epic, and that thing was almost impossible to brick. Every time I tried to install new ROMS, kernels, whatever, if it failed, I was always able to get it into download mode, Odin the stock ROM, and I was back and working.
I'm not a ROM newb, but this was the first time trying something with the E4GT. For this phone, I was trying to install one of the pre-rooted kernels, and the process failed. I let odin say it failed and unplugged the phone, pulled the battery and tried to get it into download mode again (Vol down + Power) but all I get is the Blue LED, nothing else. Screen and buttons don't light up, no USB recognition (with many various cables.) The most I get is the blue LED.
So, is it totally screwed?
If I can't get something going, I am just going to have the store replace it. (Good rapport with the SM, since it's not working at all, I will likely have her replace it with a new handset today.)
I'd rather not waste a perfectly good phone though if it isn't totally screwed.
Any suggestions?

You probably arent screwed try this and do it step by step
Turn phone off plug your usb into the comp FIRST hold vol down first then power "keep holdin them" galaxy s logo may appear twice before entering dload mode!!
Then you should be in dload mode hit volume up then connect your usb cord to phone
then open odin
also try plugging in your usb cord to epic first with the battery out hold vol down and power then put battery in real fast after that may help into download mode
Side note see if your battery shows charging on front screen when you, plug usb in , im curious to see if you did the same thing i did, oh yes you can hard brick it easily i did two days ago... but i flashed a aTAT GSM rom, over the cdma phone which is a pemabrick instantly, i lost all usb recognition for good!!
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I forgot to mention try the 3 button combo for dload mode that the gt i9100 uses hold VOL DOWN, @ HOME BUTTON @ POWER all at once its worth a shot after i flashed the gsm tar file i had to use the atat download mode ,method for their galaxy s device
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Theres no way you dont have dload mode,unless you flashed a kernel from a gsm rom, are you certain it was one of the kernels for the epic touch 4g, your probably just having a hard time gettin the button config right for dload mode

nope, doesn't work. I tried everything you said above, and it does nothing more than light the blue LED.
I was trying to flash the deodexed-rooted-busybox-EG30.tar, but it didn't get to that point in Odin.
I think this is one of the first non-gsm kernel true bricks...

In a flashing video, one of the ACS guys said if a flash didn't take and you are having issues, pull the battery and let the sit an hour or two with out power. Maybe push power button to try to drain the phone completely. Then try reflashing. Sounds a little wishful to me but maybe he knows something I don't.
Google Samsung epic 4g jig and try to find the documentation for making one. It's only a micro usb plug and a 301K resistor jumping pins. Maybe that will get you into download mode.

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take it to a service repair center, dont mention flashing tars, just say u did a kies update on windows 7 64 bit and it crashed they are wll aware that kies wasnt optimized for windows 7 at some point and theyve seen alot of these crashes, just act like you have no idea and no nothing about android, theyll take it right into the back try to flash the tar then, if they cant get it into odin, theyll simply throw a new motherboard in.. tel em its your only phone , they wont let u leave without it working..
thats what theyre paid to do they have parts, they wont charge you and if you dont have insurance theyll add it on the spot..
took me 25 min and i walked out with a working epic.
Then when u get it id leave it be.. or have someone else do the kernal flashing.
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Theyre have been more bricking with this perticular phone than i have ever seen with samsung before... Not sure why, but mine was by mistake, i had taken a bad tar file for a gt i9100 atat phone that was renamed eg30.tar so i got screwed by an asshole!!
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That makes sense, kinda like when you replace a part on a vehicle that was throwing a bad code it wont fix the issue until you pull the batt cable and turn on your lights to fully drain your computer brain!!
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When mine was bricked i still had download mode, but had to use home with the 3 button combo to get into it, but i had no usb recognition, I still think you have download mode regardless, just some reason you cant get into it!!
It can be tricky, i know on tmobiles vibrant you had to plug in usb cord with batt out and do the button combo then put battery back in and it forced it into download mode!

I left the battery out all night last night, and held the buttons down for about 30 seconds without battery in to see if that drained the capacitors in the phone and still nothing.
Just going to have the manager at the Advanced Exchange store replace my device. I know her personally, so she will likely just swap with a New in box handset since it's totally out.

Help Needed!

Today I was in my car sitting in a parking lot, had my phone propped on my steering wheel with the txt app open when the screen when blue then shut down. I tried to power it on but it wouldn't come on, I pulled the battery hit the power button, the LG logo came up for a few seconds then shut off and the only way to turn it on again would be to pull the battery. Holding the power and volume rocker button down will turn it on to recovery. The phone is rooted so when I go to factory reset i've had 2 times it loaded to TWERP recovery but then the blue screen would come up again and I can't do anything. Most of the time it will end up in a green screen with the TC Crash, Demigod crash screen. Plugging it into my computer does load it as a device but I'm not able to access the phones storage. Has anyone ran into this issue and first question, is there anyway to recover data? Second question, is this a hardware related issue? I'm about to try and flash it back to stock since I can't get into TWERP but i'll wait for a response before I do that.

I tried to boot to download mode, I hold the volume up rocker and then plug in a USB, it shows download mode icon for a quick second but the screen goes black. I tried the LG flash tool but it doesn't get past step 1. Any one have any ideas i'm fresh out. Only new thing to report is sometimes instead of the green TZ crash i'm getting an orange RMP crash screen but with the same options as the green screen.

Need to know know a little more before I can reach my decision on where to start.
ROM
Kernel
Thermal mods
Was the phone hot?
Does it get hot upon starting?
Baseband?
I had this happen before but never to the extent that your explaining. Kind of sounds like a kernel panic.

DroidsOnRoids said:
Need to know know a little more before I can reach my decision on where to start.
ROM
Kernel
Thermal mods
Was the phone hot?
Does it get hot upon starting?
Baseband?
I had this happen before but never to the extent that your explaining. Kind of sounds like a kernel panic.
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I can tell you what ROM it was and thats about it. Resurrection-Remix-LP-v5.5.8-20151027-vs985
Was running sold for months. Phone wasn't hot and didn't notice it getting hot at start up. Phone had 99% battery last time I checked before the blue screen.
I did some research about the LG G3 and blue screen and its a common issue from what i've found. No fix really

http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359 u could try this

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359 u could try this
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WOW, not sure about that. I'll see. Going to call verizon and see if they can do anything first.

Youll have to pay cause ure waranty is voided being rooted its a sure fire fix for almost all hard bricks and everything its not as bad as it looks i have had to myself on my g2 and g3
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Do u get the screen press up for dl mode. Try a bat pull and boot into recovery if possible

TheMadScientist420 said:
Youll have to pay cause ure waranty is voided being rooted its a sure fire fix for almost all hard bricks and everything its not as bad as it looks i have had to myself on my g2 and g3
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Are you sure its a hard brick? From all the things i've read about this blue screen is its a hardware issue. My phone is showing up in the device manager under ports. Can I skip the first part?

Itsna kernal panick some people claim its from over heat others other issues if ure phonenshows up as qusb bulk or something like that then i believe u can the pin groung is to reset it to get it into bulk mode so from there u reflash all the primary gtp partitions then u can get to download mode to restore using stock tot. Ive nevernhad this issue happen but no its not technicly a hard brick but so far i cant find a solution but the method ive shown u usaully brings back all bricks and issues it could be a hardware issue but 9 outa 10 times its a software or firmware issue
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If u got usbbulk mode on com ports not step 4 but num 4 further down the page is where u start but u have to dl wilcracker and ure stock tot file

TheMadScientist420 said:
Itsna kernal panick some people claim its from over heat others other issues if ure phonenshows up as qusb bulk or something like that then i believe u can the pin groung is to reset it to get it into bulk mode so from there u reflash all the primary gtp partitions then u can get to download mode to restore using stock tot. Ive nevernhad this issue happen but no its not technicly a hard brick but so far i cant find a solution but the method ive shown u usaully brings back all bricks and issues it could be a hardware issue but 9 outa 10 times its a software or firmware issue
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If u got usbbulk mode on com ports not step 4 but num 4 further down the page is where u start but u have to dl wilcracker and ure stock tot file
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OK thanks. I mean I guess I don't have anything to loose, so i'll give it a shot.

Like i said i couldnt find a solution im no developer ive just been rooting and modding since the first og moto droid ive bricked and fixed a lot of phones this may not be the proper solution i just no its work for a lot of people on a lot of diffrent bricks on both g2 and g3 i know basicly the g2 is unbri kable and sofar so has the g3 since this i wish it was a general sticky
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You can try calling lg but i consider there tecks dumber the crap but they get paid for what they do again 9 outa 10 times they cant help other than u sending it in for repair like i said ure rooted if they find out it is its fixed on ure dime i dont know no cell company has ever helped me out.

What do kind of wire do you suggest using?

I used acouple strands of speaker wire coiled up and a pair of tweezers to hold it end bent it to touch both so i still had a free hand

TheMadScientist420 said:
I used acouple strands of speaker wire coiled up and a pair of tweezers to hold it end bent it to touch both so i still had a free hand
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This is impossible!

joel71 said:
This is impossible!
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When u plug into ure pc what ports or coms. What xoez the fone shop up az

TheMadScientist420 said:
When u plug into ure pc what ports or coms. What xoez the fone shop up az
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After trying for what felt like forever I got it kind of work once. It showed up as QCBATCH on port 6. But once I broke connection it went away and I wasn't able to get it to work again. I'll give it another try sometime today..

Sometimes it takes a bunch of trys

TheMadScientist420 said:
Sometimes it takes a bunch of trys
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Got it working on the first try today. I used the SIM Card bay for a ground so I didn't have to hold it. Much easier, flashing now, will report back after.

joel71 said:
Got it working on the first try today. I used the SIM Card bay for a ground so I didn't have to hold it. Much easier, flashing now, will report back after.
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Let me no how it goes

I did the steps but it still booted to a RPM CRASH screen, I couldn't get into download mode. I'm trying to flash Cache, System, Userdata, and SB1 now.

Noob here: M8 wont turn on

Hi guys. I badly need help.
My m8 wont turn on.
I was chargin it the other night 32% when the phone freezed while downloading facebook from playstore. So i restarted it and it will only show the white background and htc logo. So i tried to boot it into bootloader. It dit boot btw, and when i entered recovery mode it just wont turn back on, the phone was freaking hot and when i listened closely there was a soft whirling sound inside.
I tried every troubleshooting i could find (except for connecting it to a pc, because i am a mac user) but to no avail the phone would not come back to life.
I am so depressed and wouldnt wanna go to the technician yet if i can still find some solutions to bring it back to life again.
Stock android 6.0
Asian 2.5ghz version
Phone age 1yr6mos
Never been dropped
Please help me.
If there is a way to fastboot it using command prompt because someone was suggesting me to do it. But i am a mac user. So helpless here.

up for Ms. Biangka! ed abellon here mentioning @ckpv5 @redpoint73 for some help,

imfuzzyyy said:
mentioning @ckpv5 @redpoint73 for some help,
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I have been summoned!
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Purplee said:
I was chargin it the other night 32% when the phone freezed while downloading facebook from playstore. So i restarted it and it will only show the white background and htc logo. So i tried to boot it into bootloader. It dit boot btw, and when i entered recovery mode it just wont turn back on, the phone was freaking hot and when i listened closely there was a soft whirling sound inside.
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So what is the current status of the phone, exactly? Does the screen turn on at all: white HTC logo screen? Bootloader? Can you get into recovery?
Or the screen won't come on at all?
The whirling sound is a bit disturbing. I haven't heard a report of something like that while trying to boot. The only mechanical components I can think of, that can be making that sound is the camera and vibration motor.
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Purplee said:
If there is a way to fastboot it using command prompt because someone was suggesting me to do it. But i am a mac user.
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I don't know jack about Macs, so I can't really tell you much about fastboot or recoverying using a Mac. I know you can do it (adb and fastboot on Mac), and think I remember some kind of guide here; so you may search around for that.
You should also see if there is an RUU zip for your version. If so, you can put in on an SD card and run it, without a PC.
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Purplee said:
I tried every troubleshooting i could find (except for connecting it to a pc, because i am a mac user) but to no avail the phone would not come back to life.
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Can you be more specific about what you tried, and the details on the results for each? We have no way of knowing what "every troubleshooting you could find" means.
Also, is the phone modded at all (bootloader unlocked, root, custom ROM, s-off, etc.) and is the bootloader currently unlocked, locked or relocked?

hi
the status of the phone is dead. no power. no led light lit when plugged in charger.
i tried these troubleshooting methods:
1. power + volume up for 20 secs (no response)
2. power + volume down for 10 secs (it should vibrate and boot up but it DID NOT)
3. power + volume up an down for 2-3mins while plugged in a charger (nothing happens)
bootloader is locked, all stock not modded

i did find a tutorial on how to install adb and fastboot in my mac. installation was successful but when i try to enter cmd like adb devices it would reply somewhat like adb: no command found.. so im planning to find a windows based pc. if not just leave it for the technicians to rule out the problem.
is this the first sudden death incident? and can the board of the m8 be easily damaged? i never dropped the phone, ever. it just concerns me if its the board that is defective

Purplee said:
hi
the status of the phone is dead. no power. no led light lit when plugged in charger.
i tried these troubleshooting methods:
1. power + volume up for 20 secs (no response)
2. power + volume down for 10 secs (it should vibrate and boot up but it DID NOT)
3. power + volume up an down for 2-3mins while plugged in a charger (nothing happens)
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Try power+vol up for a minute or 2, with and without the charger plugged in. A few folks have had success with this.
Also try to leave the charger connected for a few hours, and see if there is any change.
If none of this works, I would likely assume a sudden hardware failure. It would also somewhat explain the sudden freezing and failure to boot on a fully stock device, with no other apparent events or actions that would cause such a failure.
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Purplee said:
i did find a tutorial on how to install adb and fastboot in my mac. installation was successful but when i try to enter cmd like adb devices it would reply somewhat like adb: no command found..
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This usually means you need to navigate (change directory) in CMD to the proper folder where the adb files were installed.
I'm clueless on how to do that on a Mac. On a PC, you would find where adb.exe is located, than you can press Shift+right mouse button and select "Open command window here" (otherwise, you need to manually change directory in CMD using command "cd" with the proper file path).
Purplee said:
is this the first sudden death incident? and can the board of the m8 be easily damaged? i never dropped the phone, ever. it just concerns me if its the board that is defective
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This certainly wouldn't be the first incident of an apparent and spontaneous hardware failure. We've seen a a few failures like this (no other apparent cause or fix). And anecdotally , these reports seem to be getting a little more common as the device goes on 2 years old. Folks here with more knowledge than me will often say emmc failure can be the cause. emmc chips just go bad eventually. The device did not necessarily get dropped or damaged.

There is the possibility of a bad capacitor on the motherboard. From the description of the sound that you can hear (although I would consider it a high pitched whining sound), it sounds like it might be possible. Capacitors sometimes will give off a high pitched whining noise when they go bad. I could be wrong but my guess is you have a hardware issue of some kind.

robocuff said:
There is the possibility of a bad capacitor on the motherboard. From the description of the sound that you can hear (although I would consider it a high pitched whining sound), it sounds like it might be possible. Capacitors sometimes will give off a high pitched whining noise when they go bad. I could be wrong but my guess is you have a hardware issue of some kind.
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That is some brilliant detective work! I've heard of capacitor noise in regards to the AC chargers, but I never would have thought of it happening on the phone. It makes sense. I could only think of mechanical components of the phone making the noise (camera, vibration motor) which didn't really make much sense.

redpoint73 said:
That is some brilliant detective work! I've heard of capacitor noise in regards to the AC chargers, but I never would have thought of it happening on the phone. It makes sense. I could only think of mechanical components of the phone making the noise (camera, vibration motor) which didn't really make much sense.
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Well, the camera or vibration motor wasn't such a bad idea either. Have no idea if they could get stuck in some way and make a noise like that or not though. My first thought was a capacitor but then reading on I saw you mentioned them. Hadn't even thought of them. Either way, I'm guessing this is a hardware issue from the description of what happened and the noise being heard. I've seen and heard the capacitor issue a few times in my days. It makes me wonder.

redpoint73 said:
Try power+vol up for a minute or 2, with and without the charger plugged in. A few folks have had success with this.
Also try to leave the charger connected for a few hours, and see if there is any change.
If none of this works, I would likely assume a sudden hardware failure. It would also somewhat explain the sudden freezing and failure to boot on a fully stock device, with no other apparent events or actions that would cause such a failure.
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This usually means you need to navigate (change directory) in CMD to the proper folder where the adb files were installed.
I'm clueless on how to do that on a Mac. On a PC, you would find where adb.exe is located, than you can press Shift+right mouse button and select "Open command window here" (otherwise, you need to manually change directory in CMD using command "cd" with the proper file path).
This certainly wouldn't be the first incident of an apparent and spontaneous hardware failure. We've seen a a few failures like this (no other apparent cause or fix). And anecdotally , these reports seem to be getting a little more common as the device goes on 2 years old. Folks here with more knowledge than me will often say emmc failure can be the cause. emmc chips just go bad eventually. The device did not necessarily get dropped or damaged.
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Thank you so much for your help guys. Ive been to technician he wont open it coz he doesnt even have parts. I will try and look for a PC and my friend who is also a member here will help me walkthrough the process in cmd. That would be my last chance to wake it up.
If not, i think i need to visit singapore soon. Htc repair center here in the philippines is crap, untrustworthy. Thank you sir!

robocuff said:
There is the possibility of a bad capacitor on the motherboard. From the description of the sound that you can hear (although I would consider it a high pitched whining sound), it sounds like it might be possible. Capacitors sometimes will give off a high pitched whining noise when they go bad. I could be wrong but my guess is you have a hardware issue of some kind.
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Thank you sirs @redpoint73 and @robocuff
I will try and visit manila since the resources there are much broad than the city i live.

Moto Z Play won´t turn on, blinking white led

So after flashing a new 7.0 rom on the phone, I updated it via OTA. When it finished, instead of rebooting the phone, it led to a black screen. I have tried turning it on and opening bootloader/recovery but nothing has worked so far. When I charge the phone the white LED above the screen starts blinking and if I plug the phone to my pc and keep pressing the power button, it connects/disconnects from the PC every 20 seconds, so I know the phone is not completely dead. I don´t know what to do anymore, please help.

Its a hard brick you many of us have done it and for now there is no solution. If you check the other threads someone has claimed they figured out a way to boot in to bootloader to revive the phone I think the website is aryktech or something similar but haven't seen verification. Other than that its a paperweight.
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http://www.aryk.tech/2017/07/moto-z-play-unbrick-solutions.html?m=1

I had that problem on a OnePlus 3t. The battery was so low it would constantly try to boot when you plug it in. I put it on a turbo charger and left it. Eventually the battery got enough where I could get into recovery and boot.

Totally Dead! Won't Power On, Won't Charge, No FTM/Bootloader/recovery Nothing

Hello All,
I have been using Lineage OS on my rooted HTC One M9 for more than 6 months. Everything was working fine, only battery backup was not good(old Battery). A week ago when i pulled my phone out of my pocket, it was off, tried turning it on, didn't work. When connected to charger nothing happens, tried to go to bootloader/recocvery mode did not work.
After googling all this, i found about field test mode, that also is not working, tried.
Tried charging with stock charger, different charger, USB to laptop... nothing.
However, when phone is connected to laptop, windows 10 notification sound comes up but phone is not detected.
Seems like the soul has left the phone.
Please Help!!

Change out the battery. If that doesn’t work, it also sounds like the Motherboard went out.

Battery dead
The soul must be in sleep,is not dead but the battery is gone
R.I.P battery (we will miss you)
Change you battery dude

;( can't upload pic of problem "network error"
I'll got 4x HTC m9 from an ex HTC employee and he told me one of them had a problem and he wasn't sure really what the problem was but he told me the phone keeps rebooting, so I thought wellllll I flashed like every single galaxy from 1 to 10 and ofcourse i faced some times i did got it semi bricked but after moments of rage and eating excessive amounts of instant noodles I was always luckily able to fix it. Now this m9 says on the screen
Blackbox: Software status modified
Pink: locked
Orange: s-on
Pink : security warning
Got 4 choises
Reboot
Reboot to bootloader
Boot to recovery
Power down
Now all of these options don't work... even power down will reboot back to this screen and recovery option gives message that it's a development version.
Some people claim it's fixable by sending RUU? With Odin or boot.img other story's saying EMMc bricked.. since xda is the only place where I can actually get an answer from people knowing what they are talking about.. is it dead? If it's not I just put some more time in it.. at least the phone gets detected by my PC when my s6 edge had a eMMC brick it would show up as (no USB id for devicediscriptor...

influenza026 said:
;( can't upload pic of problem "network error"
I'll got 4x HTC m9 from an ex HTC employee and he told me one of them had a problem and he wasn't sure really what the problem was but he told me the phone keeps rebooting, so I thought wellllll I flashed like every single galaxy from 1 to 10 and ofcourse i faced some times i did got it semi bricked but after moments of rage and eating excessive amounts of instant noodles I was always luckily able to fix it. Now this m9 says on the screen
Blackbox: Software status modified
Pink: locked
Orange: s-on
Pink : security warning
Got 4 choises
Reboot
Reboot to bootloader
Boot to recovery
Power down
Now all of these options don't work... even power down will reboot back to this screen and recovery option gives message that it's a development version.
Some people claim it's fixable by sending RUU? With Odin or boot.img other story's saying EMMc bricked.. since xda is the only place where I can actually get an answer from people knowing what they are talking about.. is it dead? If it's not I just put some more time in it.. at least the phone gets detected by my PC when my s6 edge had a eMMC brick it would show up as (no USB id for devicediscriptor...
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Well,i am not a development or something like that but my idea is(not a good idea but anyway) it seems that you have to download a little lot of Rom's and if non of them works it is a refurbished item from Htc.co (this is my opinion)
For better answer(of course that have intelligent people than me)you better ask them privately
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Can you give me that broken Htc?

ford1234 said:
Well,i am not a development or something like that but my idea is(not a good idea but anyway) it seems that you have to download a little lot of Rom's and if non of them works it is a refurbished item from Htc.co (this is my opinion)
For better answer(of course that have intelligent people than me)you better ask them privately
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Can you give me that broken Htc?
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Unable to flash rom trough RUU always get message the battery is below 30% and that cannot be true.

influenza026 said:
Unable to flash rom trough RUU always get message the battery is below 30% and that cannot be true.
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Of course not that is true