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[SOLVED] phone not powering up and no download mode

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ac16313 said:
I really have no idea, and I dont want to pin it to the "magic button" but what I did was
take the battery and sd card out and press the "button" under the battery cover for like a minute. And then hold the power button and 1 both while I plugged in the charger *without battery in* then, bam! Dowload mode!
Oh and before pressing the "magic button" I had tried tis method without it, and it didn't work, but I'm skeptical as to this button so maybe it was just coincidence.
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okay so now i odin'd a fresh EC05 install and still no samsung splash screen and i still cant turn it on normally on can get into download mode and turn on with method posted below. does someone think doing a bootloader update with odin will help it? if so can someone provide me the file name required in an odin tar to be able to check the " update bootloader" option?
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First of all backgroun info, I recently odin'd Stock EC05 selected repartition with the pit and auto reboot nothing else and it passed like normal, then I booted it up, selected debugging, and one click root, now I noticed the once click root took longer than usual this time but It finished and rebooted like normal.
Okay now here's the issue I'm curently running my phone, everything is fine... except for one small thing I can't turn it on! no button combination works when its off the only way I can get it to turn on is by
1st plugging in charger without battery
2nd replacing battery with charger plugged in
3rd waiting until charging screen comes on(and It only comes on with this method)
4th turing it on normally with power button.
and once this is finished it turns on, but I can't get into downlod mode or recovery this way, and what I didn't notice at first boot was that the "samsung" screen at start up didn't show up.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as I can't do much right now, and I'm afraid I can't get into download mode.

ac16313 said:
First of all backgroun info, I recently odin'd Stock EC05 selected repartition with the pit and auto reboot nothing else and it passed like normal, then I booted it up, selected debugging, and one click root, now I noticed the once click root took longer than usual this time but It finished and rebooted like normal.
Okay now here's the issue I'm curently running my phone, everything is fine... except for one small thing I can't turn it on! no button combination works when its off the only way I can get it to turn on is by
1st plugging in charger without battery
2nd replacing battery with charger plugged in
3rd waiting until charging screen comes on(and It only comes on with this method)
4th turing it on normally with power button.
and once this is finished it turns on, but I can't get into downlod mode or recovery this way, and what I didn't notice at first boot was that the "samsung" screen at start up didn't show up.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as I can't do much right now, and I'm afraid I can't get into download mode.
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Sure sounds like a bad flash. Seems like the bootloader is wonky. Since you repartitioned, are you sure you used the right PIT?
For stock EC05 I've always had the best results by using the old official Samsung EB13 installer they had on their website for a while, then letting EC05 download OTA and install itself. Once that is done you can use one click to root.
I know the EB13 tool is around the forum somewhere, just don't know where!
Edit....just realized you said you can't get into download mode. Hmmm...... guess my comments won't help much then. Sorry

poit said:
Sure sounds like a bad flash. Seems like the bootloader is wonky. Since you repartitioned, are you sure you used the right PIT?
For stock EC05 I've always had the best results by using the old official Samsung EB13 installer they had on their website for a while, then letting EC05 download OTA and install itself. Once that is done you can use one click to root.
I know the EB13 tool is around the forum somewhere, just don't know where!
Edit....just realized you said you can't get into download mode. Hmmm...... guess my comments won't help much then. Sorry
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Thanks for the input, Hm next time ill keep that in mind then, let's hope there's a next time.
Yeah I don't know how I can get into download mode. I was going to try the acs updater t install a recovery and kernel would that work? Or would it still need acess to a recovery to install them? And yeah I used the right pit, if I didn't id be sitting here with a nice permabricked phone, since I hit repartition.
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Any help you guys can offer me?
Is there a way to use odin without going into download mode?
Maybe replace the zImage file written to phone with one click root, with another full recovery?
I can use usb debugging if that's hepfull at all
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ac16313 said:
Any help you guys can offer me?
Is there a way to use odin without going into download mode?
Maybe replace the zImage file written to phone with one click root, with another full recovery?
I can use usb debugging if that's hepfull at all
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Have you checked this thread??
[SOLVED] bricked.... no download mode or anything
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084694
there are some tricks to get the phone into download mode

jdelano said:
Have you checked this thread??
[SOLVED] bricked.... no download mode or anything
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084694
there are some tricks to get the phone into download mode
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Thanks for replying, seeriously appreciate it!
Lol what's ironic is that I'm the 3rd commentor on that thread givin ideas.
But ill try all those ideas there!
*edit* I love you man! I was able to finaly put it in download mode!
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AWESOME; great to hear!!!!!
What was the trick that worked for you?? just for the record and for others that might come upon this thread later.

jdelano said:
AWESOME; great to hear!!!!!
What was the trick that worked for you?? just for the record and for others that might come upon this thread later.
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I really have no idea, and I dnt want to pin it to the "magic button" but what I did was
take the battery and sd card out and press the "button" for like a minute. And then hold the power button and 1 while I plugged in the charger *without battery in* then, bam! Dowload mode!
Oh and before pressing the "magic button" I had tried tis method without it, and it didn't work, but I'm skeptical as to this button so maybe it was just coincidence.
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you shouldn't have to worry about the repartition aspect of Odin until a standard flash won't boot.

OP updated issues still persist can i hit update bootloader on odin? whats reqiured?
**Update again.... issues solved it was a faulty odin tar file...I hope

Eh, did I brick it? (Odin PASS but won't boot)

So I wanted to flash my Epic to EG22 using this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183353
I odin'd the phone but used the clockwork mod .tar they listed, and also the modem.smd under phone, and unchecked F Reset. The Odin PASSED and reset but the phone did not boot back up. I've tried several power cycles but the phone still will not boot up.
Was there something in the process I should have not done, and is there anything I can do to get this phone to boot back up?

MrAutomatic said:
So I wanted to flash my Epic to EG22 using this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183353
I odin'd the phone but used the clockwork mod .tar they listed, and also the modem.smd under phone, and unchecked F Reset. The Odin PASSED and reset but the phone did not boot back up. I've tried several power cycles but the phone still will not boot up.
Was there something in the process I should have not done, and is there anything I can do to get this phone to boot back up?
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you might want to try this link to odin back to stock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU
Once you get back to stock, u can give it a shot again.
Also, u can try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183353&page=3
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lcovel said:
you might want to try this link to odin back to stock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU
Once you get back to stock, u can give it a shot again.
Also, u can try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183353&page=3
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Thing is, it won't power on, at all. I get nothing.

Are you able to get into download mode?

MrAutomatic said:
Thing is, it won't power on, at all. I get nothing.
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Sd card out, battery out then plug in charger while holding 1 and power?
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ac16313 said:
Sd card out, battery out then plug in charger while holding 1 and power?
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Still nothing. Absolutely no power whatsoever.

try this very similar method that worked for me, take out battery[has to be charged] no s*!t right haha.. hold 1 and power button down while inserting the battery, takes a couple trys sometimes
..oh I didn't have mine plugged in either while doing this.
Sent from my old but still kickin Epic 4g

MrAutomatic said:
So I wanted to flash my Epic to EG22 using this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183353
I odin'd the phone but used the clockwork mod .tar they listed, and also the modem.smd under phone, and unchecked F Reset. The Odin PASSED and reset but the phone did not boot back up. I've tried several power cycles but the phone still will not boot up.
Was there something in the process I should have not done, and is there anything I can do to get this phone to boot back up?
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Make sure you're flashing with odin on PDA, and not phone.

This did it for me! I thought my phone was hosed after it wouldn't even power up directly plugged into an outlet.

Why eg22? You like random reboots?
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b16flybye said:
Why eg22? You like random reboots?
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Look at the date of the OP.

phone shuts down/reboots very often

So I thought I would give up my inexperienced life of flashing and possibly bricking my device(sent it in to get jtag repaired), so I attempted to put it back to stock. I got odin up and running, Downloaded(for the most part) the tar that would make it stock again. about 98% into the flashing it failed and made me a little nervous. I later remembered to flash the kernel, and with it, the phone booted up. Fine and dandy one day yadda yadda yadda.
Now comes day 2, and it just randomly turned off and booted again. it got to the little android boot screen, then shut down again, rinse repeat at different times of the boot process, add in some random shutdowns when I'm at the home screen and using my phone and there you have it.
I figured it was using an unfinished stock rom trying it's best to function, so I tried to put in clockwork mod. I did, but it was very difficult as I navigated through clockwork recovery, the phone would select things on its own, making the rooting process a giant pain. With that monkey on my back, I managed to root and install the juggernaut v.5 rom(which totally rocks) to see if the probably persists. The end result was it still happened, but when it didn't, I was able to work with it normally. At this point in time, I am trying to keep my phone turned on because if for a second the screen shuts off, the phone will start trying to shut itself down and game over. This is still very very annoying and was wondering if you fine people would happen to point someone thats green as grass with this stuff in the right direction

s1yfox said:
So I thought I would give up my inexperienced life of flashing and possibly bricking my device(sent it in to get jtag repaired), so I attempted to put it back to stock. I got odin up and running, Downloaded(for the most part) the tar that would make it stock again. about 98% into the flashing it failed and made me a little nervous. I later remembered to flash the kernel, and with it, the phone booted up. Fine and dandy one day yadda yadda yadda.
Now comes day 2, and it just randomly turned off and booted again. it got to the little android boot screen, then shut down again, rinse repeat at different times of the boot process, add in some random shutdowns when I'm at the home screen and using my phone and there you have it.
I figured it was using an unfinished stock rom trying it's best to function, so I tried to put in clockwork mod. I did, but it was very difficult as I navigated through clockwork recovery, the phone would select things on its own, making the rooting process a giant pain. With that monkey on my back, I managed to root and install the juggernaut v.5 rom(which totally rocks) to see if the probably persists. The end result was it still happened, but when it didn't, I was able to work with it normally. At this point in time, I am trying to keep my phone turned on because if for a second the screen shuts off, the phone will start trying to shut itself down and game over. This is still very very annoying and was wondering if you fine people would happen to point someone thats green as grass with this stuff in the right direction
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I suggest you Odin back to stock. Here is a good guide to Odin back to GB stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
Heres a link to Odin back to ICS stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705565.
You can use this App to root your phone afterwards:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908
I personally used this thread to Odin CWM then flashed SU later:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311194
Hope this helps!!

Thanks!
LoopDoGG79 said:
I suggest you Odin back to stock. Here is a good guide to Odin back to GB stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
Heres a link to Odin back to ICS stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705565.
You can use this App to root your phone afterwards:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650908
I personally used this thread to Odin CWM then flashed SU later:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311194
Hope this helps!!
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You have definitely earned my thanks for providing such hearty solutions! I am super paranoid now when it comes to downloading files like those. my major concern is if the files never download completely :O I followed what was in that first thread to tooth, and as I installed that md5 towards the end I got a giant fail. regardless, I thank you for the awesome support man:good:

Hmm, try reflashing your recovery. Mount your USB (If you cant, take out your SD card, and mount it on your PC) and place this file on the root of your SD card( Just easier to find this way)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/darksidetools/files/SGH-T989_ClockworkMOD_5.0.2.7.zip/download
Flash it, and restart recovery. Your recovery should act normal, and do a clean install of whatever ROM you wish. By the way, Juggs was my first DD (daily driver) to!!

Superwipe?
LoopDoGG79 said:
Hmm, try reflashing your recovery. Mount your USB (If you cant, take out your SD card, and mount it on your PC) and place this file on the root of your SD card( Just easier to find this way)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/darksidetools/files/SGH-T989_ClockworkMOD_5.0.2.7.zip/download
Flash it, and restart recovery. Your recovery should act normal, and do a clean install of whatever ROM you wish. By the way, Juggs was my first DD (daily driver) to!!
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that wouldn't happen to be darkside super wipe would it? I just tried it out, and I have the same issue :S
I just re downloaded the stock rom file you flash with odin, but haven't tried it out yet. I really hope it works :/

s1yfox said:
that wouldn't happen to be darkside super wipe would it? I just tried it out, and I have the same issue :S
I just re downloaded the stock rom file you flash with odin, but haven't tried it out yet. I really hope it works :/
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Lol, no its CWM 5.0.2.7 or aka, CWM non-touch, I got that link from TDJ's OP, he so kindly provided us a link for it. From your OP, it sounds like CWM did not flash correctly, you can flash a recovery within a recovery, you just have to restart it or reboot your phone for it to take into effect. Do you have the T989 or T989D?

lets see
LoopDoGG79 said:
Hmm, try reflashing your recovery. Mount your USB (If you cant, take out your SD card, and mount it on your PC) and place this file on the root of your SD card( Just easier to find this way)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/darksidetools/files/SGH-T989_ClockworkMOD_5.0.2.7.zip/download
Flash it, and restart recovery. Your recovery should act normal, and do a clean install of whatever ROM you wish. By the way, Juggs was my first DD (daily driver) to!!
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Lol, no its CWM 5.0.2.7 or aka, CWM non-touch, I got that link from TDJ's OP, he so kindly provided us a link for it. From your OP, it sounds like CWM did not flash correctly, you can flash a recovery within a recovery, you just have to restart it or reboot your phone for it to take into effect. Do you have the T989 or T989D?
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its an sgh t...lets see if 5.0.2.7 can help me :S

no dice man
it still keeps on restarting even after the clockwork

s1yfox said:
it still keeps on restarting even after the clockwork
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Did you do a clean install? Darkside Superwipe, flash ROM, reboot, wait ten minutes, then reboot?
Sent from AOKP Goodness :-D

Yeah unfortunately it is still randomly rebooting....washing lol

An update to this: all the same symptoms occur, but for some reason when I flashed darkside rom 3 the symptoms occurred less! For example, last night I was able to use this device for 4 hours straight without it acting up. I really wonder what the problem is. I. Mean the thing acts like an angel when in Odin mode, but when it comes. To cwm or anything else it tends to spaz out.

I too have this happening now. I don't know why its been doing it. I was running the latest aokp and than it started rebooting and shutting off. So I went back to my nandroid backup and still continues. Running darkside v7, and problem is still there. Anyone know why this is happening?
It started happening while listening to music.

Here's a logcat, I used catlog right before it shut down. I cannot comprehend what it is trying to say, hopefully one of you can help me out. Thank you.
http://db.tt/kf1iiWqt
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Calz- said:
Here's a logcat, I used catlog right before it shut down. I cannot comprehend what it is trying to say, hopefully one of you can help me out. Thank you.
http://db.tt/kf1iiWqt
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Im beginning to suspect our power buttons may be at fault here.

s1yfox said:
Im beginning to suspect our power buttons may be at fault here.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. Everytime I would lock my phone with the power button it'll turn off and stay black vibrating. When I lock my phone using screen off and lock app it won't turn off but to unlock it I have to use the power button, than it turns off.
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Calz- said:
That's exactly what I was thinking. Everytime I would lock my phone with the power button it'll turn off and stay black vibrating. When I lock my phone using screen off and lock app it won't turn off but to unlock it I have to use the power button, than it turns off.
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Bingo. The moment that I touch the power button my phone freaks out and shuts down. If you don't have the stones or craftiness to fix it yourself, you can join me in getting the power button replacement on mobile tech videos

s1yfox said:
Bingo. The moment that I touch the power button my phone freaks out and shuts down. If you don't have the stones or craftiness to fix it yourself, you can join me in getting the power button replacement on mobile tech videos
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So I went to a T-Mobile store earlier and they told me they can't replace my phone because I'm rooted and they think its the rom, even tho I showed them.
I have to odin flash the original stock rom and go back to T-Mobile to get it replaced.
Know any way you can flash back without an internet connection on a computer?
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s1yfox said:
So I tried to put in clockwork mod. I did, but it was very difficult as I navigated through clockwork recovery, the phone would select things on its own, making the rooting process a giant pain. With that monkey on my back, I managed to root and install the juggernaut v.5 rom(which totally rocks)
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In the non touch clockwork recovery use menu to scroll down. Home to scroll up. Back to go back. And search to select. I figured it out by my power button clicking things.
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Calz- said:
So I went to a T-Mobile store earlier and they told me they can't replace my phone because I'm rooted and they think its the rom, even tho I showed them.
I have to odin flash the original stock rom and go back to T-Mobile to get it replaced.
Know any way you can flash back without an internet connection on a computer?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app
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the only way i know how is through odin. I've done it a few times. at the end of the flashing I find that the phone turns itself off or something which marks it down in odin as a FAIL..when in actuality it flashed....it just needs a kernel flash and it'll all be candysticks and lollipops.
At this point in my phones life though, however, it is increasingly harder to do anything in clockwork since the button is fudged up. I think I might have to pony up 35$, but if you can Odin your phone back to flash and tell T-Mobile/Samsung about it, you can probably get the repair for free

I Think My Phone Is Bricked!!!

My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!

Fly2Deaf said:
My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!
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So what exactly happened?
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Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.

I handed my phone to my mother to show her a picture and when she went to hand it to my aunt, my aunt dropped it. I didnt think nothing of it when I locked the screen but when I went to unlock it, my phone restarted and went to a straight black screen and started to vibrate over and over again. I tried to pull the battery and then re-insert it and boot into recovery but when recovery showed up and I went to restore to a previous ROM the phone rebooted itself and started vibrating again. Now I'm at the computer trying to place it into Download Mode. The screen pops up that says to either push Vol + for Download or Vol- for restart. When I press Vol+, the phone restarts and goes straight to a black screen again.
And I'm not a noob, I know what I'm doing my phone just started acting up
And I'm Running the AOKP ROM with Eugene's ICS Kernel with the Tmo_SGH-T989_LC8_Radio

What previous from were you trying to restore?? When you restore a nand back up you have to make sure that the rom you're restoring is the rom that's already installed. In other words if you wanted to restore a back up you would have needed to flash the correct rom before hand. Though I'm confused because if you did try and restore a previous rom say a cm9 back up and you have aokp currently installed it shouldn't work. Cwm will tell you there's a mismatch and it aborts the installation. My guess is this drop did some damage. Your phone isn't making it past post per say of your using pc terms. Can you try and boot back into cwm? You said download mode doesn't work. But does cwm?

kr3w1337 said:
Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.
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He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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I couldn't even get into cwm at all. But now i was able to get into Download Mode to flash back to Stock ICS using Oden and now Oden won't flash The ICS ROM back to my phone for some reason. Oden does recognize my phone but it won't flash anything

I would buy a USB jig they're cheap on eBay it'll force into download mode so u can restore in odin
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I don't know what I did but thankfully I got it to boot into CWM and I'm restoring my ROM

maybe hardware problems if you dropped it, wasn't bricked, we usually say bricking a phone from bad flash, don't we? lol, i am not sure. try taking off sim card, micro sd card and battery then carefully put them back on next time if you have problems from drops etc........

Got to admit the whole "Brick" wording gets thrown around way too much for my liking and lets be honest if you are not a noob then you know all the steps to take in my opinion to try and restore your phone. If those steps dont work and you have researched the web then let Insurance kick in if you have it.
Not trying to flame or be an ass but just saying any non noob should know the steps to try and bring our phone back from the dead... I dont think starting a "Brick" thread should be on that list... Coming from the epic touch where the ICS kernel was bricking everyone its just makes me cringe when I see that word.... My bad man if you don't care for my opinion
IJS

Have the exact same problem, can't get it into recovery or download mode.
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RushAOZ said:
He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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He got as far as ROM so I knew for a fact that he could get to download and/or recovery. Just like he in fact did.
Idiot. Learn more about the phone you hold.
Sent from my SGH-I727

Play nice. It's fun to read about people's phone situations.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

Here is my 2 cents
Yes people jump the gun and post bricked phone threads but that's probably because they are panicking.. And yes I agree that people should use the search function and read whenever possible.. And yes people should be reminded to do so..
But if you have the time to criticize someone then why don't you try to help them too..
If you have nothing helpful to add then don't post anything
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth

I had this same problem,when I tried to go in to recovery and do a restore it would reboot its self even while flashing a Rom.what I did was...go in to recovery and quickly clear cache before it reboot then go back and clear dalvik then go back and try to flash the same Rom you had installed. It did work for mange when I was trying to restore.
Hope this helps
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2

RushAOZ said:
Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Honestly, your the type of person everyone hates on xda.
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so you tried..
1. remove battery.
2. plug in phone to usb on computer with battery STILL OUT
3. while plugged in hold down volume up and down.
4. Still plugged in and still holding the volume up and down, insert your battery.
5. boom choose continue and find download mode.
If this doesn't get you to DL mode then either something broke hardware wise when you dropped it, OR your not being honest with what you did to cause the problem..

[Q] Think I bricked...

Bleh just got my Optimus yesterday, came stock with zv9. Decided to root today and had no trouble, flashed TWRP recovery using FreeGee then updated to the newest TWRP version using GooManager. Made a backup using TWRP then used GooManager to download Lifeless ROM. Just downloaded, didn't flash. After the download was done I shut off my Optimus but when I went to restart it, it powered on, showed the LG logo for half a second then just went to a black screen. Can't boot to recovery. Whenever I try and turn the phone off it just restarts again showing the logo for brief period of time then black. Any ideas? It's gotta be bricked but I just don't understand how or why. Probably going to try and take the battery out and see what happens.

hotpeanuts said:
Bleh just got my Optimus yesterday, came stock with zv9. Decided to root today and had no trouble, flashed TWRP recovery using FreeGee then updated to the newest TWRP version using GooManager. Made a backup using TWRP then used GooManager to download Lifeless ROM. Just downloaded, didn't flash. After the download was done I shut off my Optimus but when I went to restart it, it powered on, showed the LG logo for half a second then just went to a black screen. Can't boot to recovery. Whenever I try and turn the phone off it just restarts again showing the logo for brief period of time then black. Any ideas? It's gotta be bricked but I just don't understand how or why. Probably going to try and take the battery out and see what happens.
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okay well your not bricked if you can get even a little life like an LG screen. hook phone up to computer and use adb to get into bootloader and try to reflash the recovery img again. it just sounds like you need to reflash your recovery. thats why it didnt flash. lemme know. ill keep checking back on the thread for awhile

Evolutionmods said:
okay well your not bricked if you can get even a little life like an LG screen. hook phone up to computer and use adb to get into bootloader and try to reflash the recovery img again. it just sounds like you need to reflash your recovery. thats why it didnt flash. lemme know. ill keep checking back on the thread for awhile
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Okay perfect I appreciate it. Downloading SDK right now, I'm away from my desktop and didn't have it on my lappy. LG has a program similar to ODIN too right? Would that maybe work as well?

You would need LGNPST. you can find it in the IRC if you can get to download mode you can flash back to stock and start over.

neemot said:
You would need LGNPST. you can find it in the IRC if you can get to download mode you can flash back to stock and start over.
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Yeah that's it thanks. But forgot- can't get in to download mode so that won't work.

I ran the command "adb devices" and the Optimus didn't show up. Is there anything else I can do/try?

hotpeanuts said:
Yeah that's it thanks. But forgot- can't get in to download mode so that won't work.
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Just because the screen doesn't come on don't think the phone is off. Plug that sucker in. If you see the logo you should be able to get in download mode. Also, if the phone is on, you will eventually see some green android screen.
The same thing happened to my phone once. I only know of one way to hard brick this phone. I am not telling anyone how. But, I doubt you did that. It isn't something you would accidentally do.
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hotpeanuts said:
Yeah that's it thanks. But forgot- can't get in to download mode so that won't work.
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Sometimes my power button won't work for dlmode just hold volume down volume up and plug in

kc_exactly said:
Just because the screen doesn't come on don't think the phone is off. Plug that sucker in. If you see the logo you should be able to get in download mode. Also, if the phone is on, you will eventually see some green android screen.
The same thing happened to my phone once. I only know of one way to hard brick this phone. I am not telling anyone how. But, I doubt you did that. It isn't something you would accidentally do.
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda premium
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It's on but it just shows a flat black screen. No matter how long it is on it doesn't get passed that. Also, when it's plugged in there aren't any charging lights. Not sure what to do since adb doesn't recognize it.

neemot said:
Sometimes my power button won't work for dlmode just hold volume down volume up and plug in
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Holy boobs volume up and plugging in worked. You are an angel much thanks.

I had the same situation a month or two ago. Try leaving it off for 20 minutes and see if it boots back up. Worked for me and like you I had no idea why it did that
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Funny, that plugging it in step is always overlooked. I should of told you that.
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Haha KC glad I can state the easiest part lol
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i did this this past weekend. Dumb mistake, i forot that it wiped the unlocked and there isnt unlocking yet for JB.
After using LGNPST my radios/3g/network connection is screwed up. I cant connect to anything.

Update your profile.
If that doesn't work LGNPST again. Factory reset. Then update the profile.
Sent from my LG-LS970 using xda premium

If what kc doesn't end up working it could be that you efs got wiped. Check this thread for help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2161498
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These are what I tried:
factory wipe/data reset from stock recovery
MSL reset (suggested by Sprint)
lgnpst reset
All of which failed to work

tlxxxsracer said:
These are what I tried:
factory wipe/data reset from stock recovery
MSL reset (suggested by Sprint)
lgnpst reset
All of which failed to work
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Had you made back ups of your efs?

hi, i just tried to update to jb evrything was going fine and all of the sudden the screen shut off and now the charging light and the buttons are flashing, im rooted and was doing the update through twrp.
please help, thanks

Ram1500 said:
hi, i just tried to update to jb evrything was going fine and all of the sudden the screen shut off and now the charging light and the buttons are flashing, im rooted and was doing the update through twrp.
please help, thanks
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You are going to have to pull the battery.