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[Q] Is the phone dead?

Hey guys,
i was trying to root the Desire of my uncle, it is a german TMobile branded device with HBoot 0.75.
I used the instructions of the third post in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
After that i bricked the display i dont know why. The i tried to unbrick the display using the instrunctions of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748498
Now i have a Desire that does nothing, no vibration, my computer don't recognise it when i plug in the usb plug, the phone seems dead. The only thing the phone is doing is when it charges the battery, the orange/green leds are blinkng.
Is the phone dead, or can it be recovered in some way?

Unbrick a SLCD is very painful - had to do this myself. The instructions to unbrick are correct. The problem is blind navigating through the Bootloader menu. Sometimes its not responding to Vol-Up or Down at all - so you can't say if you really got to the right point at the Bootloader menu.
Hardest thing for me was to get into Recovery at all. Just give your phone 10s minimum between all steps.

m0rph3us said:
Hey guys,
i was trying to root the Desire of my uncle, it is a german TMobile branded device with HBoot 0.75.
I used the instructions of the third post in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189
After that i bricked the display i dont know why. The i tried to unbrick the display using the instrunctions of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748498
Now i have a Desire that does nothing, no vibration, my computer don't recognise it when i plug in the usb plug, the phone seems dead. The only thing the phone is doing is when it charges the battery, the orange/green leds are blinking.
Is the phone dead, or can it be recovered in some way?
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re: blinking: are they on, or actually blinking? when mine is charging I have a solid orange and when it is 100% I have a solid green LED.
Could it be a USB brick and a SLCD brick at the same time?
Have you tried to get the computer to recognise it in either fastboot or recovery mode?
Code:
plug it into the computer (turned off)
vol down+power=bootloader. was there a *ding*?
if not, press power again. you should be in fastboot now. any ding now?
if not, press power again (back to bootloader), wait ~10 seconds, press vol down, then power. you should now be in the recovery screen that would usually have a red exclamation mark in it. any luck with the *ding*?
if there is a *ding* coming from your computer then it can still be accessed from the PC and therefore should a ~relatively~ straightforward fix.
mountnorth said:
Hardest thing for me was to get into Recovery at all. Just give your phone 10s minimum between all steps.
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its to do with the fastboot etc having to load the pm99.img files, and that takes ~10-15 seconds. the phone won't respond before it loads these in the bootloader.

nzdcoy said:
re: blinking: are they on, or actually blinking? when mine is charging I have a solid orange and when it is 100% I have a solid green LED.
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When it is charging the red led is permanet on, when it has fully charged the green led is on.
vol down+power=bootloader. was there a *ding*?
if not, press power again. you should be in fastboot now. any ding now?
if not, press power again (back to bootloader), wait ~10 seconds, press vol down, then power. you should now be in the recovery screen that would usually have a red exclamation mark in it. any luck with the *ding*?
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No *dings* no matter what i do.
Any other suggestion?

red? I didn't know the desire had a red LED, it certainly doesnt show up in a logcat on the blinker app.
do the keys light up when attempting to turn it on?

nzdcoy said:
red? I didn't know the desire had a red LED, it certainly doesnt show up in a logcat on the blinker app.
do the keys light up when attempting to turn it on?
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Sorry i mean the orange led.
When i try to turn it on nothing happens, no vibration, no key lights. The only thing that happen is the orange led turns off.

m0rph3us said:
Sorry i mean the orange led.
When i try to turn it on nothing happens, no vibration, no key lights. The only thing that happen is the orange led turns off.
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Unfortunately I don't know how much more help I could be.
all I could suggest is trying to flash said fixes completely blindly again in hopes you screwed it up the first time (using a MicroSD card adaptor to put necessary files on the card).
I guess the next option is to try at Modaco if you haven't already, or see if T-Mob can replace (whether or not you tell them the full story is up to you)
sorry I couldn't be more help

nzdcoy said:
Unfortunately I don't know how much more help I could be.
all I could suggest is trying to flash said fixes completely blindly again in hopes you screwed it up the first time (using a MicroSD card adaptor to put necessary files on the card).
I guess the next option is to try at Modaco if you haven't already, or see if T-Mob can replace (whether or not you tell them the full story is up to you)
sorry I couldn't be more help
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Thank you nzdcoy, i have already tried all the fixes but nothing to do. I will buy this jtag
http://www.jtagbox.com/
and try te resurrection option if that does not work, i will try to read the whole nand content of my desire and write it to the desire of my uncle, maybe that will work.

[Q] Red Light Flasing Wont Switch On

Hi Guys, phone switched off yesterday and when I plugged in all I get is red flashing light. Tried all the power and volume button options but still no joy, has anyone any ideas ?

Adyb386d said:
Hi Guys, phone switched off yesterday and when I plugged in all I get is red flashing light. Tried all the power and volume button options but still no joy, has anyone any ideas ?
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Out of battery, let it charge.

Hi thanks let it charge overnight and could get to hboot loader it says relocked but when I go to unlock it again it says battery to low on cmd screen, it my phone bricked or is there any hope of recovery ? also no solid lights on it green or red.

Adyb386d said:
is there any hope of recovery ?
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Check this little script to charge your phone.
Also, requested moving to Q&A

Thanks Ive got it charging now with that script, do i unlock again and go to recovery or could you help me on what to do next ?

Yeah, go ahead and unlock, install CWM, and then flash the custom ROM of your choice

M8 won't turn on, only shows red notification light

I tried to flash the new firmware necessary to flash the 5.0 GPE rom but found that my phone had no OS after that. So I tried to flash PhilZ recovery so that I could load a ROM but after I completed that, the M8 is basically dead. The screen won't turn on and the notification light is red. No matter what buttons I press, power+volup, voldown or both, the red light just turns off for a second and then turns on again. The screen won't turn on at all. It's not a battery issue as I had close to 80%. I'm sure I've bricked it somehow but is there a way to fix it? Please help.

Shadester9 said:
I tried to flash the new firmware necessary to flash the 5.0 GPE rom but found that my phone had no OS after that. So I tried to flash PhilZ recovery so that I could load a ROM but after I completed that, the M8 is basically dead. The screen won't turn on and the notification light is red. No matter what buttons I press, power+volup, voldown or both, the red light just turns off for a second and then turns on again. The screen won't turn on at all. It's not a battery issue as I had close to 80%. I'm sure I've bricked it somehow but is there a way to fix it? Please help.
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does the PC recognize the phone, do you get any usb notification sound ?
does the pc load a driver when plugged in ?
what firmware were you on and what firmware did you flash ?

Shadester9 said:
I tried to flash the new firmware necessary to flash the 5.0 GPE rom but found that my phone had no OS after that. So I tried to flash PhilZ recovery so that I could load a ROM but after I completed that, the M8 is basically dead. The screen won't turn on and the notification light is red. No matter what buttons I press, power+volup, voldown or both, the red light just turns off for a second and then turns on again. The screen won't turn on at all. It's not a battery issue as I had close to 80%. I'm sure I've bricked it somehow but is there a way to fix it? Please help.
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If a computer cant recognize its a definate hard brick and even if it does it might still be a hardbrick

clsA said:
does the PC recognize the phone, do you get any usb notification sound ?
does the pc load a driver when plugged in ?
what firmware were you on and what firmware did you flash ?
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If you answer these, we can try to help you further :good:

charge it for 15mints and see the noti light turns on or not and if the pc doesn't recognize after installing drivers then its hard bricked , what did u did with the phone?

I don't know what the issue was but I kept repeating vol up+power reboots until it turned on. Was able to flash the ROM through adb sideload.

Galaxy S4 - Lost power during a flash ... phone is a mess now

I was trying to flash back to stock via Odin. All was going fine, until my phone shut OFF in the middle of the flash.
I forgot to check battery level, so my bad... The issue now is I can not do anything. When I power on the phone
it gives me that short vibration for a second then nothing.
The screen NEVER comes on, no light in the LED circle, nothing !!! So I can not go into TWRP or stock recovery.
Is there any thing I could try that I am not aware of ???
Thank you for any idea's

Have you put the phone on a charger for a few hours?

audit13 said:
Have you put the phone on a charger for a few hours?
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Mmmm did not think of that. I will try now and report back ...
Thanks !!

I bricked my phone the screen is completely gray

As said the screen is gray and a green light under the camera is flashing when I press the power button. I don´t know what I did tried rebooting and stuff but it doesn´t work. Please help how can I access the data? (My backup isn´t that recent) Also I can access fastboot mode but twrp is not installed.

TRIST4N said:
As said the screen is gray and a green light under the camera is flashing when I press the power button. I don´t know what I did tried rebooting and stuff but it doesn´t work. Please help how can I access the data? (My backup isn´t that recent) Also I can access fastboot mode but twrp is not installed.
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1. It would be great to know what exactly you have done to brick your device.
2. Try to use a fastboot rom from Mauro
3. If that doesn't work, I guess you will need to use MSM.

TRIST4N said:
As said the screen is gray and a green light under the camera is flashing when I press the power button. I don´t know what I did tried rebooting and stuff but it doesn´t work. Please help how can I access the data? (My backup isn´t that recent) Also I can access fastboot mode but twrp is not installed.
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Are you sure you have a 7t? There's no LED on the phone besides the main flash by the camera, so when you mention a green light under the camera it makes me think you don't have a 7t.

jestyr8 said:
Are you sure you have a 7t? There's no LED on the phone besides the main flash by the camera, so when you mention a green light under the camera it makes me think you don't have a 7t.
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It's an op 7T and the screen was completely grey besides the few green flashing pixels right under the front cam so it's not an led it was pixels on the screen. I fixed it btw.

TRIST4N said:
It's an op 7T and the screen was completely grey besides the few green flashing pixels right under the front cam so it's not an led it was pixels on the screen. I fixed it btw.
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Ok..I was kinda wondering with the mention of green lights.. Glad you got it fixed