I have an Epic 4g Touch that is flashed to Boost Mobile. I think I bricked it by flashing the newest ICS update by Shabbypenguin, then trying to switch back to the other ROM I was on. I noticed that I didn't have cwm recovery anymore, so I flashed a cwm touch recovery to get back on the previous ROM I was on. After wiping data/factory reset, wiping delvik cache, and wiping cache, I restored the recovery that I had saved in cwm previously, then I tapped on the "fix permissions" button that was available because I didn't know how to get back to the main screen on the recovery mode where it says reboot system now. After that I tapped on reboot system now, and it hasn't shown anything on the screen since. It may have been because I accidentally fixed permissions after wiping and flashing the previous ROM that I bricked it. However, it does have the blue notification light on, and if I hold the power button, it will flash once, then stay on. I'm not sure if this means anything as far as it being bricked or not bricked. My question is that if I restore it to factory settings using the unbrick method, will it erase my flash to Boost Mobile?
There is a ton of threads on this very topic! I hate to say it but you are bricked. Always read first before messing around with your phone.
Here is a thread that will give you some suggestions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524442
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I have an Epic 4g Touch that is flashed to Boost Mobile. I think I bricked it by flashing the newest ICS update by Shabbypenguin, then trying to switch back to the other ROM I was on. I noticed that I didn't have cwm recovery anymore, so I flashed a cwm touch recovery to get back on the previous ROM I was on. After wiping data/factory reset, wiping delvik cache, and wiping cache, I restored the recovery that I had saved in cwm previously, then I tapped on the "fix permissions" button that was available because I didn't know how to get back to the main screen on the recovery mode where it says reboot system now. After that I tapped on reboot system now, and it hasn't shown anything on the screen since. It may have been because I accidentally fixed permissions after wiping and flashing the previous ROM that I bricked it. However, it does have the blue notification light on, and if I hold the power button, it will flash once, then stay on. I'm not sure if this means anything as far as it being bricked or not bricked. My question is that if I restore it to factory settings using the unbrick method, will it erase my flash to Boost Mobile?
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You my friend just received the blue light of death.. aka hardbricked. I had the same thing trying to flash cm9. You can do one of three things: use a jigg to try and force it into download mode (although a lot of people have been saying it doesn't work in this case). Ship it to mobiletechvideos and pay 60 bucks to have them unbrick it, or take it to sprint and hopefully get a new phone.. I took mine to sprint and they thought my screen went out, so I got new one..(best bet)
SMH!!
So apparently noobs are too lazy to read before they destroy anything. I made a full thread on "HOW NOT TO BRICK YOUR DEVICE" should have read it, too late now. In the future, if you purchase another e4gt, stay away from cwm touch, and rom manager
Heres my thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495
nickman102 said:
I have an Epic 4g Touch that is flashed to Boost Mobile. I think I bricked it by flashing the newest ICS update by Shabbypenguin, then trying to switch back to the other ROM I was on. I noticed that I didn't have cwm recovery anymore, so I flashed a cwm touch recovery to get back on the previous ROM I was on. After wiping data/factory reset, wiping delvik cache, and wiping cache, I restored the recovery that I had saved in cwm previously, then I tapped on the "fix permissions" button that was available because I didn't know how to get back to the main screen on the recovery mode where it says reboot system now. After that I tapped on reboot system now, and it hasn't shown anything on the screen since. It may have been because I accidentally fixed permissions after wiping and flashing the previous ROM that I bricked it. However, it does have the blue notification light on, and if I hold the power button, it will flash once, then stay on. I'm not sure if this means anything as far as it being bricked or not bricked. My question is that if I restore it to factory settings using the unbrick method, will it erase my flash to Boost Mobile?
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Not to harp on you like everyone else, but dude, general and q/a section had a dozen threads with people that bricked their phones using touch recovery. Others have posted in bold letters- DO NOT USE TOUCH RECOVERY. lol. [email protected]!
EDIT- This could be a troll. LOL. I find it hard to believe that someone would use the touch recovery to brick their phone after so many others did it.
stargaterules said:
Not to harp on you like everyone else, but dude, general and q/a section had a dozen threads with people that bricked their phones using touch recovery. Others have posted in bold letters- DO NOT USE TOUCH RECOVERY. lol. [email protected]!
EDIT- This could be a troll. LOL. I find it hard to believe that someone would use the touch recovery to brick their phone after so many others did it.
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No I truly believe he did this there are so many idiots who can't be bothered to take 5 minutes to read ....they know what they are doing .....300 may get you another off Craigslist have fun with your new brick
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My friend tried to flash a rom to his EVO 4g, everything went smooth, installation was a success. However prior to rebooting, he know gets stuck in a blank screen after the evo 4g screen goes away. Anyone ever get this problem ? is there any way to start from scratch?
Reboot the phone into recovery ( pull battery if it's in a bootloop, then restart phone by holding vol-down and pressing the power button)...
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache
Reflash the ROM
Ps: what ROM is your friend trying to flash? Be sure it's a Rom developed for the evo (not calling you or your friend stupid...mistakes happen)
He was using salvage zin, I essential there watching like I prolly should have lol but he got impatient and downloaded the rom then went into recoverey wiped data and all the others and then flashed and then got stuck in a black screen and what do you know he's calling me saying I have a problem lol, I'm trying to drink not fix his phone man lol but now I feel bad, I'm a good listener if I'm giving instructions. I'm a nexus s user though so is new to evo by the way
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Is there anyway to Odin back to stock ? Or perhaps himdell back?
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If it's a black screen and then the phone boots, there's probably just something wrong the boot animation. If it won't boot then he might have a bad download.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
EVO 4g
My phone is rooted
im using MikG-v3.11-signed
*My phone was running slow, freezing, no text messages were coming in
* I went to my bootloader, then recovery, then wipe then wipe ALL userdata/factory reset
My phone turns on but now when it gets to the home, nothing is there like lock screen just a black screen
Is it bricked? If not, is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thank you!
xany said:
EVO 4g
My phone is rooted
im using MikG-v3.11-signed
*My phone was running slow, freezing, no text messages were coming in
* I went to my bootloader, then recovery, then wipe then wipe ALL userdata/factory reset
My phone turns on but now when it gets to the home, nothing is there like lock screen just a black screen
Is it bricked? If not, is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thank you!
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Ok re-read what you just posted,"I went to my bootloader, then recovery, then wipe then wipe ALL userdata/factory reset"this means you dont have an operating system anymore,hence the black screen.Go back to recovery and rewipe everything and reinstall a rom or restore the nandroid you should have taken,then reboot and you should be good,now the reason your system is slowing down is the clutter on your internal and sd card,you need to backup,format and partition your sd card.
^^This.
I'm not sure how supported that particular ROM is anymore, so you might want to check the thread for that ROM and see if anybody else was having the same issues. Might not hurt to try something else.
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Hi. I was trying out Blisspop on this tablet and decided I preferred CM11 so decided to restore a backup. After rebooting, nothing turned on, only download mode worked so I just flashed stock firmware using Odin (which I had used successfully previously). Now it boots but gets stuck at the Samsung Logo. I can still get to download mode, but nothing else. I've read that if factory reset in the stock recovery, it'll work itself out but I can't even get to it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Hi. I was trying out Blisspop on this tablet and decided I preferred CM11 so decided to restore a backup. After rebooting, nothing turned on, only download mode worked so I just flashed stock firmware using Odin (which I had used successfully previously). Now it boots but gets stuck at the Samsung Logo. I can still get to download mode, but nothing else. I've read that if factory reset in the stock recovery, it'll work itself out but I can't even get to it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Dont panic really common problem happened to me.
1. Boot into recovery, if not flash one with odin coz your gonna need something...like philz touch or team win or whatever.
2. Wipe cache and dalvik, reboot and wait, samething might appear to happen but it should boot.
Basically ive noticed a few times now on my t805 that the cache wouldnt format propperly and became corrupt and caused this.
I knew this because in the recovery a bunch of errors appeared saying couldnt acces log from cache/blah zt each time i navigated the menu of revoveryand so i wiped cache and they stopped
Booted and viola...if you see any other errors in recovery tell us here.
Good luck m8.
pdolton2000 said:
Dont panic really common problem happened to me.
1. Boot into recovery, if not flash one with odin coz your gonna need something...like philz touch or team win or whatever.
2. Wipe cache and dalvik, reboot and wait, samething might appear to happen but it should boot.
Basically ive noticed a few times now on my t805 that the cache wouldnt format propperly and became corrupt and caused this.
I knew this because in the recovery a bunch of errors appeared saying couldnt acces log from cache/blah zt each time i navigated the menu of revoveryand so i wiped cache and they stopped
Booted and viola...if you see any other errors in recovery tell us here.
Good luck m8.
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The problem was that I couldn't even get into recovery. But found thread on xda that mentioned if you turn off the tablet from download mode (pressing power and volume down) then you can use the normal three button method to get to recovery. And then yes, I wiped everything I could and it finally booted back up. Thanks for the help mate.
jalchemyst said:
The problem was that I couldn't even get into recovery. But found thread on xda that mentioned if you turn off the tablet from download mode (pressing power and volume down) then you can use the normal three button method to get to recovery. And then yes, I wiped everything I could and it finally booted back up. Thanks for the help mate.
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No worries pal glad all went well in the end m8
Long story short, I had recently installed the cyanogenmod to my phone, don't like it, tried to flash it back to the stock rom and the rom couldn't install. The installation wizard restarted the phone, now it's stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen and the notification light lit as if im charging the phone, but it's not plugged up. The bad part about all of this is that the battery isn't removable so now I have to wait for phone to die I guess but is my phone now bricked? Once it dies can I recover from this by booting it up thru recovery mode?
atlJE said:
Long story short, I had recently installed the cyanogenmod to my phone, don't like it, tried to flash it back to the stock rom and the rom couldn't install. The installation wizard restarted the phone, now it's stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen and the notification light lit as if im charging the phone, but it's not plugged up. The bad part about all of this is that the battery isn't removable so now I have to wait for phone to die I guess but is my phone now bricked? Once it dies can I recover from this by booting it up thru recovery mode?
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I have the same issue. I suspect the person I let use it tried to use the options menu to reset the phone back to factory specs, which I was warned on here that would brick it, so mine is stuck in the round and round boot screen for CM. I think you're supposed to use the factory reset in CWM to delete personal stuff. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it and if I come up with something I'll let you know.
flash back to stock rom
atlJE said:
Long story short, I had recently installed the cyanogenmod to my phone, don't like it, tried to flash it back to the stock rom and the rom couldn't install. The installation wizard restarted the phone, now it's stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen and the notification light lit as if im charging the phone, but it's not plugged up. The bad part about all of this is that the battery isn't removable so now I have to wait for phone to die I guess but is my phone now bricked? Once it dies can I recover from this by booting it up thru recovery mode?
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Good thing is you are not "hard bricked" just "soft bricked." Press the power button and volume up and hold till your phone reboots then immediately press the volume button and power down button to enter recovery.Then do a complete wipe, factory reset, then and only then reflash your stock CWM backup of your stock Rom . Just guessing mind you ,because I do not know every single thing you did before trying to return to stock but you should always do a full Wipe or factory reset before flashing between different roms. If your trying to flash a stock image, not a CWM backup, of your firmware you'll need to first reflash your stock recovery and relock your boot loader.
Is your phone a single SIM or dual SIM? Dual SIM phones have allot more issues on Cyanogenmod . If yours is dual SIM I'd stick to stock Rom or sense based custom roms made for our device. By the way what didn't you like about CM if your on a single SIM phone? It had a few issues but with a few tweaks you can get it working great and it's alot less bloated than stock lollipop. I'm on unofficial 12.1 CM with the a5_chl single SIM and it's fine. Having said that I had to tweak several things and I exempt dual SIM versions from my reasons for me liking this Rom. I get that it's sadly alot buggier for those phones . Let me know how things go in fixing your issue and best of luck.
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Ddreth said:
I have the same issue. I suspect the person I let use it tried to use the options menu to reset the phone back to factory specs, which I was warned on here that would brick it, so mine is stuck in the round and round boot screen for CM. I think you're supposed to use the factory reset in CWM to delete personal stuff. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it and if I come up with something I'll let you know.
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First thing, some friendly advice and I truly do mean friendly, not accusing, but you should never let anyone else touch your device when it's in custom recovery. They can seriously mess it up not just"soft brick" it like yours is now.
2nd thing is the factory reset in your custom recovery doesn't have anything to do with your personal files. It's to clean your system and its data so that you can do a fresh install of a different Rom. It's called a "clean flash." A dirty flash is when your upgrading the same custom Rom and you just flash it over the previous version without wiping then clear your Dalvik cache and reboot. These wipes leave your personal files on your internal and external SD card intact unless you specifically wipe then in your custom recovery . They just call it factory reset to make it familiar to the stock Roms use of the term in my opinion. When you have this"soft brick" you can press your power button and volume up to reboot then quickly press power button and volume down to enter recovery. Then factory reset or wipe Dalvik cache if not wanting to reset and reboot one or the other should get you back into your rom.
Hope this helps and good luck plus let me know if this works to resolve your issue. Be happy to help in any way because I have been there myself in the past. Bootloops, soft bricks,etc etc................... If you can name it, I've messed it up.
screen went black, and now I cant do anything. Phone boots normally. LED indicator at the top shows that the phone is booting fine. (the top half also gets super hot for some reason?)
Any ideas on how to get it back? Or is it bricked?
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screen went black, and now I cant do anything. Phone boots normally. LED indicator at the top shows that the phone is booting fine. (the top half also gets super hot for some reason?)
Any ideas on how to get it back? Or is it bricked?
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If you are still on the stock recovery originally installed, see if you can boot it manually into Recovery mode. If the screen shows in Recovery mode, chances are you have developed a corruption from something you installed etc., not bricked it. You can try wiping Cache when in Recovery mode but I suspect you will have do a Factory Reset from there. If you have installed a custom recovery and have a known good backup, you could restore that or re-install the rom in a clean flash (wiping Cache, Dalvik cache, System and importantly, format Data > Yes.
Failing that, you may have to replace the screen or send it in for repair if it is a hardware issue.
sdembiske said:
If you are still on the stock recovery originally installed, see if you can boot it manually into Recovery mode. If the screen shows in Recovery mode, chances are you have developed a corruption from something you installed etc., not bricked it. You can try wiping Cache when in Recovery mode but I suspect you will have do a Factory Reset from there. If you have installed a custom recovery and have a known good backup, you could restore that or re-install the rom in a clean flash (wiping Cache, Dalvik cache, System and importantly, format Data > Yes.
Failing that, you may have to replace the screen or send it in for repair if it is a hardware issue.
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I just flashed a 100% stock rom with putting the phone in download mode and using LGUP, same problem... Guess it's bricked :/
It's not even worth it to repair, I just wanted to see if I could fix it myself
Thanks anyways
DzXAnt22 said:
I just flashed a 100% stock rom with putting the phone in download mode and using LGUP, same problem... Guess it's bricked :/
It's not even worth it to repair, I just wanted to see if I could fix it myself
Thanks anyways
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If you were able to see the download mode screen, it is more than likely not a hardware issue. You have to do a full wipe (preferably, Cache, Dalvik cache, System and Data (best would be a format of the data partition), to get rid of any data/rom corruption that may be causing the black screen issue. If you did not do this, try that first, making sure you re-install the same original rom that the phone came with, before junking the phone.
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