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[Q] Did I just brick my Galaxy Nexus?

Forgive me if this is the wrong forum for this but today I was just playing a game on phone when it just crashed,
I thought no big deal I'll just reboot so went to reboot, however it just went into a bootloop and would not reboot. Then I thought ok CWR but I could not boot into this. I then decided to use adb mode to flash back to stock. However in this process adb froze and would not respond anymore and kind of had a blue tearing around everything on the screen. I ended up having to pull the battery.
Now however the phone won't respond at all, Won't turn on, won't go into download mode or anything. I can get my computer and laptop to regonize it when I plug it on with no battery but just says searching for driver for OMAP 4440 then fails. I'm pretty sure I have bricked it and am quite sad. Just looking for confirmation.

Its still alive, I'm pretty sure someone with a bit more knowledge will stop by and help you, but it appears to just be a soft brick.
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Just to possibly give you some hoe look into Odin. When I had my fascinate this was the way to fix things. Being made by Samsung I'm sure it'll be similar. Do some research into that. Just got my nexus two days ago so I'm still fresh
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rctreadaway said:
Just to possibly give you some hoe look into Odin. When I had my fascinate this was the way to fix things.
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I'm afraid that's a little bit different situation here:
signzero said:
the phone won't respond at all, Won't turn on, won't go into download mode or anything. I can get my computer and laptop to regonize it when I plug it on with no battery but just says searching for driver for OMAP 4440 then fails.
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Not connected to PC - no ADB, no ODIN. Plus, his phone failed while playing game (under heavy load) which gives me a reason to think it's a hardware fault. I would say last chance is to try USB Jig.

If you can get to the bootloader, you should be able to flash a stock Google image
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signzero said:
Forgive me if this is the wrong forum for this but today I was just playing a game on phone when it just crashed,
I thought no big deal I'll just reboot so went to reboot, however it just went into a bootloop and would not reboot. Then I thought ok CWR but I could not boot into this. I then decided to use adb mode to flash back to stock. However in this process adb froze and would not respond anymore and kind of had a blue tearing around everything on the screen. I ended up having to pull the battery.
Now however the phone won't respond at all, Won't turn on, won't go into download mode or anything. I can get my computer and laptop to regonize it when I plug it on with no battery but just says searching for driver for OMAP 4440 then fails. I'm pretty sure I have bricked it and am quite sad. Just looking for confirmation.
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It's a hard brick, mate...
How to fix?:
take the back cover off your phone!
Remove battery, then plug in via USB (computer)
Leave for 3 hours!!! (With battery still unplugged) This should, in a way, "reset" your phone.
Once the three hours are over, plug in battery, and unplug USB.
Press PWR+VOL Down
Wait untill hpone boots into Odin mode then flashstock firmware from Samsung website.I
If this doesn't work, then I'd send it to Mobile Tech Videos, they kann unbrick it via JTAG...
Let me know if it worked, pleasse
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MS. said:
I'm afraid that's a little bit different situation here:
Not connected to PC - no ADB, no ODIN. Plus, his phone failed while playing game (under heavy load) which gives me a reason to think it's a hardware fault. I would say last chance is to try USB Jig.
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He didn't mean playing, as in games. He meant playing around with his phone, root etc....

Thanks for the advice guys, gives me a small amount of hope. I will try leaving it plugged into my computer for 3 hours + and see what happens. Will post back with results.
Otherwise I may try get my hands on a jig. Would it be the same one from the Galaxy SII?

It worked? I'll explain you what happened to me:
I was playing for 2 hours on the game cartoon wars. After that, the phone was a little hot, I went to the desktop and locked the phone. 20 minutes later, I try to unlock the phone and I see the Google logo, and nothing responds. I pulled out the battery several times, tried to enter recovery, fastboot, normal boot. Always freezes. Stock 100%, the mobile has one week.... I think I will have to send it to the SAT....
I have my old HTC magic awaiting me, I gave my galaxy S to my sister...

Brick is such a misused word...

hmm
well if your running with verizon, which i doubt many of you are (prob using the GSM Gnex) you could just as easily bring it to them, lie, and theyll replace your phone. had a droid X, cracked the screen, told verizon it had a hardware fault, and they replaced it with no questions. verizon employees are pretty stupid

jttate04 said:
well if your running with verizon, which i doubt many of you are (prob using the GSM Gnex) you could just as easily bring it to them, lie, and theyll replace your phone. had a droid X, cracked the screen, told verizon it had a hardware fault, and they replaced it with no questions. verizon employees are pretty stupid
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You are a horrible person and one of the reasons why decent, hardworking people can't have nice things.

So none of the methods suggested have work so looks like I'm going to have to get a Jig and hope that will do the trick otherwise I'm doomed I think.

when you guys say jig do you mean using resistors on the micro usb port to boot like with the old captivate? i still have the resistors mirco usb plug for that phone, it saved me from a hard brick a few times.

familyguy59 said:
He didn't mean playing, as in games. He meant playing around with his phone, root etc....
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First post says "i was playing a game"...
neotekz said:
when you guys say jig do you mean using resistors on the micro usb port to boot like with the old captivate? i still have the resistors mirco usb plug for that phone, it saved me from a hard brick a few times.
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Yup.

Nexus' dead, Samsung USA cannot help and am lost

So more than a week ago my phone went into "Downloading Mode" and I had no clue what it was in the first place. I took my battery off and put it back and still didn't work.
After that my phone only went to Downloading or fastboot and so I researched more about all these rooting and unlocking stuff. I downloaded Gnex toolkit because I wanted to go back to stock 4.0.2 again and I did what the program told me (Unlocked my bootloader and downloaded the GSM 4.0.2 factory image and set up fastboot.exe). My phone was recognized by GNEx toolkit and fastboot and I put yes to bring back to stock 4.0.2 but half way through the process it gave me an error (******(Unknown error)) and my phone went off and now it WON'T GO to fastboot or downloading mode. The phone doesn't start and if it did it goes it's stuck on the google but it doesn't show up; it shows up as a messed up green pixeled image.
I called Samsung USA and they said we cannot help you and I got really pissed while talking to them because they cannot help and they said they don't know who could.....then the guy offered to give me Samsung China number which I refused and hung up.
So how to get my phone back from the dead. The computer doesn't recognize it and if it turns on to this green google messed up image it doesn't do anything, it just goes off and comes back on the same screen.
Please help guys. this $680 phone is now a piece of scrap

You're right, Samsung USA is in no way obligated to help you, considering they don't sell the phone here (this should be well known when you buy a "gray market" device). You can't get mad at them about that. Where did you buy it from?
If it sometimes boots you have a chance. Someone more knowledgable than me will be able to give you specifics I'm sure. It may require some kind of USB jig to get it into fastboot mode though.

I bought it from back home Abu Dhabi, UAE but it was imported. The phone is probably made in SK.

martonikaj said:
Someone more knowledgable than me will be able to give you specifics I'm sure. It may require some kind of USB jig to get it into fastboot mode though.
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Do you know anyone that could actually help me on here?

So holding power and the down volume button doesnt bring to you the Download screen?

No. I cannot access DM or fastboot.

upon plugging in your phone via USB on the computer, does it recognize your device? (does it make the USB noise)

Uh oh. Pixelated droid = fried processor. It needs to be replaced.
I was just wrestling with one of these today - couldn't bring it back to life no matter what I did.

zephiK said:
upon plugging in your phone via USB on the computer, does it recognize your device? (does it make the USB noise)
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Yes it does and it starts charging.
computer tells me unable to recognize usb

NaeNegriTech said:
Uh oh. Pixelated droid = fried processor. It needs to be replaced.
I was just wrestling with one of these today - couldn't bring it back to life no matter what I did.
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I am not sure about that. I was only flashing to stock, but when I plug it to the computer first the battery icon on the screen is green but then it goes back to a normal looking icon and charges.

Tried taking it to a phone shop? See if they can come up with any ideas. Otherwise maybe insure it and make a claim possibly depending on terms and conditions
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Try holding down both the Volume Keys while putting in the battery and connecting the USB (which should already be connected to the computer). If that doesn't work, try it again with holding the power button. This was one of the solutions that brought back my Samsung Vibrant from the dead a couple of times. USB Jigs are an option as well, and any Samsung Galaxy S one should work. You can even make one yourself.

Hard Bricked my Epic- Will I have to make an assurion claim?

Now before you say its not hard bricked, just use odin/download mode bla bla bla, know that I do know what I am talking about. I was odining WITH PARTION ON to go from mtd to bml and my computer power cut out. Now I can't turn my phone on OR get into download mode . I looked into th e unbrickable mod but apparently that's just more of an untested thing (at least for the epic). That pretty much means I can only get a new phone (probably get the note 2). However I was wondering for the time being if I turned this into sprint, assuming they don't know whats wrong with it and i play dumb, Will they just replace my phone cause I have tep? Or will i have to make an assurion claim? Or should i use an old crap phone for the next 3 weeks until i can get my gnote 2?

A month or so ago, I thought I had hard bricked from an odin disconnect. I searched & tried EVERYTHING and couldn't get it to DL mode. Somewhere in XDA I stumbled on a suggested unbrick method that amazingly worked. I wish I could find that post & hit Thanks.
- Close the keyboard
- Put the battery in
- Press the power button TWICE with short presses
- Plug in your USB cable
- Use 1+Power to fire up DL Mode
- Voila!!
I know it sounds overly simple, but it worked for me. I was shocked.
Al
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arschend said:
A month or so ago, I thought I had hard bricked from an odin disconnect. I searched & tried EVERYTHING and couldn't get it to DL mode. Somewhere in XDA I stumbled on a suggested unbrick method that amazingly worked. I wish I could find that post & hit Thanks.
- Close the keyboard
- Put the battery in
- Press the power button TWICE with short presses
- Plug in your USB cable
- Use 1+Power to fire up DL Mode
- Voila!!
I know it sounds overly simple, but it worked for me. I was shocked.
Al
Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda app-developers app
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I don't know why, but they seemed to work...thank you!

Well, I guess my memory isn't so hot. I found the original post here. The instruction should have been to press the power button twice with the the battery OUT. I'm glad it worked for you anyway.:laugh:
Al

arschend said:
Well, I guess my memory isn't so hot. I found the original post here. The instruction should have been to press the power button twice with the the battery OUT. I'm glad it worked for you anyway.:laugh:
Al
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My friend told me it had something to do with waiting for the static something or other to clear with the battery out...so it may not have been your method. Just the two hours i got frusturated and didn't do anything with it and the battery out.

samdsox said:
My friend told me it had something to do with waiting for the static something or other to clear with the battery out...so it may not have been your method. Just the two hours i got frusturated and didn't do anything with it and the battery out.
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this drains the power out of the phone board, you could also unplug the battery and plug the phone into a WALL charger while holding power and 1, then after you get into download mode plug the battery in and take it to the usb for odin.

samdsox said:
Now before you say its not hard bricked, just use odin/download mode bla bla bla, know that I do know what I am talking about. I was odining WITH PARTION ON to go from mtd to bml and my computer power cut out. Now I can't turn my phone on OR get into download mode . I looked into th e unbrickable mod but apparently that's just more of an untested thing (at least for the epic). That pretty much means I can only get a new phone (probably get the note 2). However I was wondering for the time being if I turned this into sprint, assuming they don't know whats wrong with it and i play dumb, Will they just replace my phone cause I have tep? Or will i have to make an assurion claim? Or should i use an old crap phone for the next 3 weeks until i can get my gnote 2?
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If its been 30 days you can go back to any sprint store and they have to give you a new one. I've done it. not for the s3 but for other phones. Thats considered a manufacturers defect.

[Q] think i bricked my S2

my phone has been working great and like an @sshole i tried to update my recovery from 2.2.2 to 2.4....
i thought it did it and rebooted but since the reboot it wont turn on.
when i plug my charger in it doesnt show anything on the screen nor vibrate.
when i plug it in the computer it shows samsung android phone then says there's a driver issue. (however i've updated the driver)
odin doesnt show it....
took the batt out, held the power button for 30 sec..nothing
tried getting it in download mode...nothing
tried getting into recovery.. and still nothing
Did i brick it?
if so its time for a S3 or N4 this weekend

anyone?
before i got spend $350-400 on S3. want the Note2 but im not paying these crazy prices. not spending more than $400
S3's in my area are $320-360 all day

Which recovery file did you use to upgrade?
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trmixing said:
my phone has been working great and like an @sshole i tried to update my recovery from 2.2.2 to 2.4....
i thought it did it and rebooted but since the reboot it wont turn on.
when i plug my charger in it doesnt show anything on the screen nor vibrate.
when i plug it in the computer it shows samsung android phone then says there's a driver issue. (however i've updated the driver)
odin doesnt show it....
took the batt out, held the power button for 30 sec..nothing
tried getting it in download mode...nothing
tried getting into recovery.. and still nothing
Did i brick it?
if so its time for a S3 or N4 this weekend
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If computer says QHS usb as driver you are bricked.
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Nice to know these
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Seriously sounds like its bricked only because I bricked mine before and everything you described sounds exactly what mine did.

i used the Hercules file. not sure what happened. ima send the phone out to moblietech get it fixed for my wife and get a s3 tomorrow

[Q] I think it's bricked?

So my phone running CM 10.1, turned off randomly. So I tried to reboot but kept getting stuck on the Samsung boot logo. I rebooted to CWM recovery mode, wiped cache and dalvik and rebooted which I thought would fix the problem somehow which it did. However, when it said "Android upgrading, optimizing apps", my phone lost battery (thought the phone charger was plugged in). When I plugged it in the outlet properly this time, I got through the battery charging logo. But when I tried turning it on afterwards, nothing. The phone doesn't respond when I tried to turn it on. Took the battery off, placed it back and when I plug it into the outlet, there is no more battery charging logo and I can no longer reboot. How can I fix this? Somehow, the phone might be trying to continue to turn on but is not responding when I try to actually turn it on. When I plug the charger, take off the battery, unplug and replug charger, the battery charging led lights up for 5 minutes (which is weird cause I disabled the indicator led when charging in the system settings). I allowed it to be plugged in to the charger overnight and when I checked this morning, nothing. No symptoms that it was charging; no heat on the phone. Is not being able to charge a symptom of a bricked phone. I have yet to try using another battery.

If you can't power on or get to DL mode or anything and none of the buttons respond it could be a hard brick
Check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125
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I checked at a Sprint store and the device they have couldn't make a reading off my battery meaning it was most likely dead. I'm gonna try with a new battery and hopefully my phone isn't actually bricked.

Best of luck sir
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Ah, just my luck. A Sprint representative placed another battery on it (I didn't see it though) and told me that the phone still won't turn on and told me he can open and check the phone if I pay. So, I think it is hard bricked. :crying: How did I brick it? Ugh..I'm just dismayed on the information and data I lost. What are my options? I heard Mobiletechvideos.com does a jtag brick repair with an option for internal sd card recovery?

bonsly16 said:
Ah, just my luck. A Sprint representative placed another battery on it (I didn't see it though) and told me that the phone still won't turn on and told me he can open and check the phone if I pay. So, I think it is hard bricked. :crying: How did I brick it? Ugh..I'm just dismayed on the information and data I lost. What are my options? I heard Mobiletechvideos.com does a jtag brick repair with an option for internal sd card recovery?
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I had to get a JTAG when I flashed a wrong kernel. Although when I got it back I had lost nothing still had custom ROM and recovery and all my data and apps were there. If its hard bricked its because something happened to the bootloader
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IDontKnowMang said:
I had to get a JTAG when I flashed a wrong kernel. Although when I got it back I had lost nothing still had custom ROM and recovery and all my data and apps were there. If its hard bricked its because something happened to the bootloader
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How can I know if I need a JTAG or my phone need an eMMC Chip Repair Replacement. What if my phone experienced a sudden death. If it's the latter, it's expensive as the website lists it for $150, almost the price of a new two-year contract phone.
Oh well, I'll send it in anyways for a jtag. Hopefully they can fix it.

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How can I know if I need a JTAG or my phone need an eMMC Chip Repair Replacement. What if my phone experienced a sudden death. If it's the latter, it's expensive as the website lists it for $150, almost the price of a new two-year contract phone.
Oh well, I'll send it in anyways for a jtag. Hopefully they can fix it.
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Its kind if hard to say if this was a brick or not. Usually sudden death is out of the blue, as far as I know the only way to achieve a hard brick is flashing a bad or international zip file
What's 150$ though? The emmc or the jtag
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I just experienced a similar problem as OP, and I didn't even flash a new ROM or international ROM. Since January, I've been using the ICS version of FreeGS3, stock kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748818
I haven't flashed any new ROM's since January 2013 and have not experienced any problems until now.
This morning, however, when I woke up, I discovered that my Sprint S3 was stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo. I pulled the battery and powered up, and it got stuck on the same logo again. I repeated this process several times and the same thing happened. After looking at some XDA threads, I went into recovery and decided to wipe cache and dalvik to see if that fixed anything. Again, the phone booted up and got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo again.
However, when I tried to boot into recovery again, I wasn't able to do so. I tried several times without any luck. I decided to see if I could put the phone into download mode. I did, and it was successful. I didn't do anything just yet because I needed to research more fixes before seeing what needed to be done. I put the phone into download mode several times without doing anything, but then later, the phone itself wouldn't power on.
No matter what combination of buttons I pressed, the phone simply wouldn't power on. I even tried other batteries which I knew were fully charged. When I put the phone on the charger or plug it into my PC, no charging lights light up. However, when I pull the battery an plug the phone into my PC, the charging light lights up and it the PC seems to try to install drivers. However, despite the charging light lighting up with the battery pulled, but phone plugged into the PC, I still can't get the phone to power on at all and therefore can't get into recovery or download mode.
It's similar to the problem the person in this video is having where he uses a jig to get back into download mode.
http://youtu.be/FdrdWqaXUBE
I have a jig on the way, so hopefully that helps fix my problems, but I don't really understand how the phone got bricked in the first place; First it was soft bricked when it got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo, but I was still able to get into recovery and download mode. Then, it was hard bricked when it wouldn't even power on to get into recovery or download mode. Did it get hard bricked because I went into download mode too many times? What might have caused it to be soft bricked. The thread for my ROM is now closed, so I don't know where else to ask these questions. I'll update you as I try to fix this problem. Any other suggestions are welcome.

Your device is not bricked your device doesn't even have a software failure. What you are describing is SDS sudden death syndrome.
Your power button has failed. It's defective and the manufacturer knows it. It fails at the motherboard not the physical button itself. Since you where able to get into download mode I suggest you return the device to stock unrooted, do a triangle away function and take it to Sprint. They usually repair of exchange it for you.
Have a great day!

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Your device is not bricked your device doesn't even have a software failure. What you are describing is SDS sudden death syndrome.
Your power button has failed. It's defective and the manufacturer knows it. It fails at the motherboard not the physical button itself. Since you where able to get into download mode I suggest you return the device to stock unrooted, do a triangle away function and take it to Sprint. They usually repair of exchange it for you.
Have a great day!
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Hmm...I suggest you are talking about the other poster since I am not able to power it on at all (Recovery nor Download mode). I don't have insurance nor have warranty, I don't think Sprint would be able to fix it without me paying an incredibly huge amount. I was hoping that my data would be recovered but now that you mention the possibility of sudden death syndrome, there's no way I can recover the data if it is. A sudden death syndrome would require a replacement of the eMMC which is rather costly.

@bonsly16 My apologies yes my reply was to Lawyerman... But you do have an alternative option, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43724690 many have had success and in many cases everything was there for them.
Have a great day!