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Help!! Bricked Evo

I have been rooted for a while and successfully flashed a few Roms/Kerenels using rom manager. I was flashing the newest version of Myn and one of the "warm" kernels that it offered with it. Everything was going normally the rom loaded fashed the rom and kerenel the phone was reseting then out of nowhere i got the image of the white box and android guy with an arrw as if to say "android taken out of box" I left it like that for about 5 min then took the batt out and tried to reset it. I got the same image then i tried vol. up & power it vibrated 3x and did nothing. My buddy had the same problem yesterday and he got it workin. I called him and he said all he did was pull batt/restart over and over till it booted normally. I tried that about 10x then it would not turn on again. Plugged it in, no response no led light up.
Am I bricked past the point of no return, and if not what can I do to get back in business

Try volume down + power..
also if you have a spare battery on hand try that

Ive tried all button combos ect. nothing I have tried has gotten me ANY sort of response from the phone

dnicholsokp said:
Ive tried all button combos ect. nothing I have tried has gotten me ANY sort of response from the phone
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can u get it to turn on to splash screen?

at the risk of sounding ignorant what is that/ how would i get it up because I cannot get it to do ANYTHING but sit here off with no display no led light not led when charging its almost as if it wasnt recieving power or something

can you turn it on at all?

Can you get into the phones boot loader?

Take the battery out and plug the phone into the charger let it sit for like 1 min then put the battery back in while on the charger still. Wait for the led and then
Vol down + power
Go into wipe section and wipe everything
Do you already have updated radios?
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following the steps mentioned above the LED never came on I still have not gotten it to do ANYTHING... do you think that if i brought it to a tech center they would swap it out because there is no way to get it on and if they cant get it on there is no way they could tell that it was routed.. right? also in regaurds to the antennas i believe it did i think myn made me do that as part of the kernel change/rom flash

dnicholsokp said:
following the steps mentioned above the LED never came on I still have not gotten it to do ANYTHING... do you think that if i brought it to a tech center they would swap it out because there is no way to get it on and if they cant get it on there is no way they could tell that it was routed.. right? also in regaurds to the antennas i believe it did i think myn made me do that as part of the kernel change/rom flash
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First yeah they should just exchange it at a sprint corporate store.
Second myn didn't make you do anything, he made a suggestion.
Third now I know what you did wrong, which was obviously pulled the battery while the radio was updating.
Fourth, you have no choice but to turn it into sprint as there are several documented occasions where ppl have done the exact same thing and had to exchange their phone..
Fifth get a good nights rest and head to sprint first thing in the morning!
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I agree with craig... sleep on it.
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that is the reason Why I don't flash roms.

Yea dude being that I just went through 4 evo's before I finally got it right ik the pain but you gotta just suck it up and bring the poor thing back to sprint
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you pulled the battery while it was updating the radio, didnt you.
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Just smash the phone on the floor,tell Sprint you droped it. Pay the $100.00 insurance and walla! New EVO!

Possible Fix
Last night I decided to flash Calkulin's Radio, WiMAX, PRI & NV combo..something I have done several times. Only this time I was discharging my battery and I forgot that the low battery warning had come on. So, long story short, I ended up with the little box and the android guy. I did a search and came to this thread. Anyway, out of desperation to do something, I connected my phone to fastboot commander and since I couldn't put my phone into fastboot mode the phone was not recognized. So I switched it to the system settings. No sooner than I connected it than the the progress bar started initializing under the android guy. The screen dimmed and came back on and then went to the splash sceen and booted up. I don't know if this is a fluke or what, but I'm pretty damn happy with myself for solving my own problem. Maybe this will help someone.
UPDATE: I tried to flash Calkulin's Radio, WiMAX, PRI & NV combo again to make sure everything flashed properly and the same thing happened. I connected my phone to fastboot commander and it worked again.

Trial and Error brotha Trial and MuthaF'n Error
dkdude36 said:
you pulled the battery while it was updating the radio, didnt you.
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Yup only thing I could think of

Legitimately bricked my phone, just want an expert opinion

Running viperROM 5, went to clear my battery stats and hit clear dalvik on accident without realizing it. No big deal, went to boot up phone and it hung at the samsung screen for over 10 minutes so I just thought I would flash back to stock and reflash the ROM. The original reason I went to wipe battery stats was to calibrate my battery, which was almost dead. I switched to a spare that I thought was full, started odin, left the room, and came back to odin saying FAILED. Phone is completely unresponsive, the charge light will not even come on when I plug it into the wall or laptop. The computer does recognize when I plug it into the computer but it doesn't know what it is. Gonna sell it for parts on ebay unless someone here knows something I don't, thanks in advance =/

Even though Odin failed... cant you still get into download mode ?
if you can i recommend using any cable other than the stock one

I dont think your developing anything here so i would say this will get moved to the appropriate thread.

Your battery died. Odin consumes a great deal of battery power. Unfortunately, it failed so you can not charge your battery through your phone. If you get a new battery or charge your battery exteranlly, I bet you can get into download mode again and odin
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tuttjs said:
Your battery died. Odin consumes a great deal of battery power. Unfortunately, it failed so you can not charge your battery through your phone. If you get a new battery or charge your battery exteranlly, I bet you can get into download mode again and odin
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This is what I was hoping to hear--I'll give it a try, thanks!
Sorry this is in the wrong place, not sure where it should have gone instead >.>

I have heard, though never tried myself so take it as the unfounded rumor that it is, that it is possible to get the phone to boot in some fashion with the battery out of it, then insert the battery while it is on to "jump start" the charging.
I hope I never have to try it because it sounds like it has lots of potential for problems, but if your phone is well and truly dead what do you have to lose?

JMMusic said:
I have heard, though never tried myself so take it as the unfounded rumor that it is, that it is possible to get the phone to boot in some fashion with the battery out of it, then insert the battery while it is on to "jump start" the charging.
I hope I never have to try it because it sounds like it has lots of potential for problems, but if your phone is well and truly dead what do you have to lose?
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This actually worked! I can get into download mode, although I don't know if the battery is really charging or not. Either way I'm in good shape, I just don't understand why neither battery would boot into download mode when one of them had about 10% left.
Also this clearly belongs in Q and A, sorry!

Even without the battery as long as your phone is plugged in with the USB it should go into Download mode ... i think

Everything is back up and running, thanks everyone =)

redandblack1287 said:
This actually worked!
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I still hope I never have to do it. Glad it worked for you though.

redandblack1287 said:
Everything is back up and running, thanks everyone =)
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Wait, so you legitimately bricked your phone, but you got it working? Liar!!!!

As usual, a claimed brick is FAR FROM a brick, and despite all the notices shouting at them, people continue to spam up the dev section. Come on, people.
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Sure is easy to tell when Impaler's gone.

Its funny how many threads say I bricked my phone and then at the bottom they say it worked. And why in development section?
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WhiteWidows said:
I dont think your developing anything here so i would say this will get moved to the appropriate thread.
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I laughed. Lmao....
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JMMusic said:
I have heard, though never tried myself so take it as the unfounded rumor that it is, that it is possible to get the phone to boot in some fashion with the battery out of it, then insert the battery while it is on to "jump start" the charging.
I hope I never have to try it because it sounds like it has lots of potential for problems, but if your phone is well and truly dead what do you have to lose?
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I wish I would have thoughbt of this prior to getting the desk charger when I did the same.
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all white bricks, all yellow bricks, just hit a lick, wit 50 more bricks, got all these Bricks!!!
Lol everytime i hear the word brick i think of that retarded gucci mane song!

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Power button+Home simultaneously =

Screenshot!
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So far, great battery life.
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HAHAHA!
So far, I haven't found any reason to root this phone. It kicks so much ass out of the box! Samsung really listened, and gave us everything.

For some reason it keeps taking a picture of my recent Apps. Maybe I'm not timing it right

Vegasrich said:
For some reason it keeps taking a picture of my recent Apps. Maybe I'm not timing it right
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Just tap them, don't hold them down.

If you hold home too long, your task list comes up. Just need to be quicker!
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Good find
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bondosho said:
HAHAHA!
So far, I haven't found any reason to root this phone. It kicks so much ass out of the box! Samsung really listened, and gave us everything.
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Well... I can think of a few reasons but the one reason I'm really itching for is bc all my app data is backed up with Ti Backup and you need root to restore. Seriously, not starting over on all my games.

jirafabo said:
Well... I can think of a few reasons but the one reason I'm really itching for is bc all my app data is backed up with Ti Backup and you need root to restore. Seriously, not starting over on all my games.
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Always wondered if you can backup with ti on one phone and restore on another. I guess you can.

Main reason for me to root if for wifi tethering and custom roms.

jirafabo said:
Well... I can think of a few reasons but the one reason I'm really itching for is bc all my app data is backed up with Ti Backup and you need root to restore. Seriously, not starting over on all my games.
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Exactly. This is awesome and the one concern I had in migration from my OG Epic to the touch.

The quality of screenshots is terrible.
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oxeneers said:
The quality of screenshots is terrible.
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Strange, mine come out perfect
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whats your screeen on time on that OP

I just cant seem to get this to work, it always takes a screen shot. Any other way to access this functionality?

njfoses said:
Always wondered if you can backup with ti on one phone and restore on another. I guess you can.
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I install all my Apps from the market and only restore data on games and Apps that aren't essential. The email and settings and stuff change from phone to phone so you can run into trouble if you restore everything.
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Blu3Fr0g said:
I just cant seem to get this to work, it always takes a screen shot. Any other way to access this functionality?
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Um what? The functionality accessed by Power+Home is a screenshot.

Oooooh. Ok, so I a an android n00b. Nothing to see here, move along folks. Seriously, what screen was he looking at when he took the screen shot? As I spent 20 minutes trying to bring up that screen by pressing the power button and home button at the same time. At least I am not as bad as the guy who couldnt figure out how to open his brand new notebook because the manufacturer's logo was upside down (so it is right side up when the notebook is open and running) and he called Amazon and then the manufacturer for support before figuring it out. Left all of this information in a review that was captured on an Epic Fail website.

Blu3Fr0g said:
Oooooh. Ok, so I a an android n00b. Nothing to see here, move along folks. Seriously, what screen was he looking at when he took the screen shot? As I spent 20 minutes trying to bring up that screen by pressing the power button and home button at the same time. At least I am not as bad as the guy who couldnt figure out how to open his brand new notebook because the manufacturer's logo was upside down (so it is right side up when the notebook is open and running) and he called Amazon and then the manufacturer for support before figuring it out. Left all of this information in a review that was captured on an Epic Fail website.
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I think it's this, from my mad RTFM skillz:
Hope that helps...

Re-setting binary counter to stock :-)

Like the international SGS2, the E4GT has an internal counter that increments every time you flash a kernel, ROM, etc.
I'd heard that a "usb jig" could be used to reset that counter to zero, and was curious so I bought one.
Sure enough...
1) turn off the phone
2) insert the jig into micro-USB port
3) press power button
4) Voila! the display then shows "Custom binary download: No" (where it used to show a count)
See link: Photos are from another xda user who used a jig on his SGS2 but the resulting screen display is the same for E4GT (except ours, of course, displays D710 at top): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16179541&postcount=10
The jig itself is tiny, photo below.
Edited to add: Thanks to Daneurysm for confirming that using jig also gets rid of yellow triangle on boot screen (see his post on page 2).
Edited 10/4: Also see Blownco's video showing how it works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mcsEePWpQw
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Link to purchase jig please...?
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I bought via Amazon but they can also be found on ebay (probably cheaper).

geekaren said:
I bought via Amazon but they can also be found on ebay (probably cheaper).
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what was the steps to do it? just plug and get into download mode?

m_reyna_16 said:
what was the steps to do it? just plug and get into download mode?
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It was even easier than that!
1) turn off the phone
2) insert the jig into micro-USB port
3) press power button
4) the display then shows "Custom binary download: No" (where it used to show a count)
(I'll edit the original post to make the steps clearer)

Make your own its cheap and easy...
Doesnt look as "professional" as the ones you buy off ebay or amazon but its not like your gonna carry it around with you and show your friends...
It saved my life back when I had a first generation vibrant that didnt have 3 button DLM
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Simple google search will havd many DIY jigs
http://droidangel.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-make-samsung-galaxy-s-download.html?m=1
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geekaren said:
It was even easier than that!
1) turn off the phone
2) insert the jig into micro-USB port
3) press power button
4) the display then shows "Custom binary download: No" (where it used to show a count)
(I'll edit the original post to make the steps clearer)
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I didn't even have to turn my phone on. It came on automatically. (I got the same one, same packaging and everything)

just ordered mine from ebay... according to a post on ebay that it also removes the yellow triangle... can anybody confirm?

what the hell is this?

Vega said:
what the hell is this?
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look it up on ebay... its called a "usb jig" samsung put a counter on our phones for when we flash anything on our phones.... whether its a kernel, rom, etc... and when you put your phone on download mode, it will show you the number of counts... and with the "usb jig" it brings it back to zero and samsung nor sprint will know we rooted our phones and flashed custom firmware on it

m_reyna_16 said:
just ordered mine from ebay... according to a post on ebay that it also removes the yellow triangle... can anybody confirm?
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would also like to know i hate that triangle.

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would also like to know i hate that triangle.
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Confirmed. You can have a custom kernel sans yellow triangle.
... Or flash back to stock kernel works in the meantime.
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bought one off ebay for 2$

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Confirmed. You can have a custom kernel sans yellow triangle.
... Or flash back to stock kernel works in the meantime.
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Thanks for checking, Daneurysm. I'll update original post to mention your confirmation.

does it reset the secondary internal counter that's been reported to be in the phone also?

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does it reset the secondary internal counter that's been reported to be in the phone also?
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Until compelling evidence (read: any) of such a counter even exists I think it safe to consider any claims of one to be apocryphal.
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Got mine off ebay from us seller and works great. Got it quick too. Plus it also removed the i9100 section which was a very pleasant surprise.
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Lets not forget the phone has a reset counter as well, that no one has found yet.
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...i-has-a-custom-rom-kernel-flash-counter.3827/

Ordering one now, sounds like something that'll come in handy.

Even if there is a secondary counter, the likelyhood that sprint would look for that is slim. Sprint replaces the phone not Samsung
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Brick?

Idk if i did a full or soft brick i just went to EXTREMEPERIA Z v2 all went well did everything then i suddenly put LeanKernel v2.9 then i choose to reboot the system and it didnt show anything + if a press the power button it vibrates and shows nothing i cant access TWRP and i cannot also access download mode

Does your computer recognize your phone?
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i just plug in my phone to the laptop and it created a sound but on the phone still black screen
no led light also
ADD: it seems i can access TWRP halfway it wont let me in

I can tell u one thing i have multiple threads asking for help i just did the same thing. You will find alot of xda members who will laugh and bash with no help whatsoever and some will just say jtag is only option! None will really take time and go into indepth guide to help.But i will offer what i know thus far .
Plug into pc if you get a message at bottom saying Qb something means it isnt being recognized by the pc its toast ..dead ...wiped bootloader 100% gone .Jtag is only option at that point,cost is 60$ to save a 500$ phone
FIRSTLY You can try to buy or make a usb jig to force dload mode cost 1$ to make it atleast try before spending 60$, use three 100kohm half watt 5 percent resistors .You can find them at radioshack twist the gold end stripe to brown end stripe and so on until u have 3 looped and you will end up with two leads after its done.
In the end you will jump pin 4and5 on a usb plug end you will need to spare and cut a good usb end the pins will be two furthest end pins
Google for a diagram of what pins to jump if succesful in 3 seconds u will be in dload mode and then safe to flash stock t999 tar file to fix
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If you arent getting absolutely no power on, no boot logo no noise, not even a charging light indicator its bad news.Do.this Take your battery out leave it out plug in charger with batt out if the light is solid red with batt out and nothing with batt in then you know whats.going on .
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I don't think it's bricked at all. I think you flashed a TouchWiz rom and tried to flash an AOSP kernel on top of it. If the phone is unresponsive, flash stock firmware (or root66) with Odin. Then you can flash your rom again.

i just got to the TWRP and i did a FULL WIPE and i wont put a custom kernel..i thought my phone is dead..*phew* almost got a heart atk.

We posted at the same time I explained where you went wrong. It's safe to flash kernels, you just need to be careful about which version you are flashing. And I think most of us have been in a position where we didn't how we were going to fix our phones, but figured something out

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We posted at the same time I explained where you went wrong. It's safe to flash kernels, you just need to be careful about which version you are flashing.
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i'll note that, for now i'll stick to STOCK kernel

any suggestion what kernel suites the XTREMEPERIA Z? if i want to go for a custom kernel.

The kernel threads are in the Original Dev forum. I think most of the big players for our device have AOSP and TouchWiz kernels. Just be careful - you need a 4.1 TouchWiz kernel.
This is ktoonsez kernel: http://www.mediafire.com/?1hdtn46pownyynj (Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1871946). We can flash ATT kernels.

I can't tell enough people how many times this lil jig has save many Samsung s phone from vibrant to S2 , S3
It was the best $12.00 I have ever spend..
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would faux kernel be ok with this rom?

Is there a 4.1 TouchWiz build for it?

yes cuz it says: "NOTICE: This is COMPATIBLE with ALL Samsung Rooted Stock and Custom ROMs"
thanks for the help

I'm running lean kernel with extremeperia z v2.... The kernel we are running is in the Verizon S3 thread...it's compatible with Tmobile and it's made for TW roms..
Link to the lean kernel we are running on Tmobile T999 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34636372
Picture in the next post shows what we are running.Verizon kernel on Tmobile phone and Rom.
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joemm said:
I'm running lean kernel with extremeperia z v2.... The kernel we are running is in the Verizon S3 thread...it's compatible with Tmobile and it's made for TW roms..
Link to the lean kernel we are running on Tmobile T999 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34636372
Picture in the next post shows what we are running.Verizon kernel on Tmobile phone and Rom.
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What he said....I think lean need to do official post in tmobile lol everyone always getting softbreak lol.
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For some weird reason, people keep putting "stock" labels on ROMs and kernels that are TouchWiz.

Stock condition is factory condition. These phones aren't coming out of the factory with AOSP on them. TouchWiz is stock on many consumer devices.
Putting AOSP on the S3 is "aftermarket" not stock because you're not getting it that way from the factory.
"Stock Android" can be used to refer to the Android OS that comes out of Google's OSP, but it's not the stock ROM for any of the S3s and not for plenty of other phones.

Thanks, that was blatantly obvious. My point was that it should not be referred to it as such.
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