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[Q] How to Brick your EVO

What I would like to compile is a list of things one could do to brick there phone. One way is if you lose your RSA private keys, what else can cause you to walk around with a paper weight?

flashing a radio image from another phone, especially GSM. It will actually fry the circuits. Saw someone do that in the Hero forums (didn't check what hero a rom was for and literally toasted it. Completely dead.) I don't think there are that many other ways to truly brick the phone beyond repair. There are plenty of ways to soft brick, but generally if the phone turns on, there is at least some way to fix it, though it might be out of reach for less technical users.

[Q] how hard is it to brick the HOX?

hi, i don't own a HOX, but i rooted 2 of them.
i just want to know since this phone is VERY easy to root, how hard\easy is it to brick it? and by brick i mean lie when you put it in the charger and the light doesn't light up.

If you know what you're doing it's pretty much impossible to brick, bar actual hardware failure mid-flash

[Q] recognizing a bricked device

So I want to start off saying my device is not bricked. Just have have a question about knowing If a phone is bricked or if a hardware issue. I know the difference between a soft brick and hard brick but can a hard brick only happen after flashing some zip. Or can it still happen randomly without flashing or even entering the recovery in over a week.
I ask this cause it has happened to me before. Where one day my A100 wouldnt turn on. Not even the boot screen. The only sign of life was the light by power button while charging.
SO is it possible still to hard brick if nothing was flashed in over a week or most likely a hardware issue?
I thought the same thing happened to my note 2 yesterday. But all it was, was this damn new update draining my battery so fast. I thought somehow it was bricked lol
ANy answer to my question will be thanked

Yes, a device can get hard bricked without flashing or messing around with the recovery. That will most likely be a hardware failure issue.
But as you found out with your GN2, that the problem can be something else. That is where the art of troubleshooting becomes important.

That's not called hard brick. That's call device failure because of age or defect.
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whatsitsnamenow said:
That's not called hard brick. That's call device failure because of age or defect.
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Hard brick is the effect. Device failure (hardware failure) can be a cause of a hard brick. Not always, but can be a cause.
Hard brick is a non-recoverable bricked device (no matter how the device became non-recoverable bricked).

[Q] International Galaxy S3 Hard Bricked

Well my phone used to freeze a lot so I decided to try a new ROM.. I flashed Cyanogen, several builds, until I ended up picking the Nightly build. The phone kept working for about 12 hours before it went black and dead. It's totally dead. Should I assume that it's hard bricked? Assuming that it was hard bricked, does it have to die right away or is it possible for it to keep working for a few hours?

This is the Sprint S3 US version. Not the International section.
If your phone doesn't turn on at all, doesn't vibrate when you hit the power button either the battery is dead or the device is hard bricked. If it does anything else all like those mentioned it's not bricked.
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edfunkycold said:
This is the Sprint S3 US version. Not the International section.
If your phone doesn't turn on at all, doesn't vibrate when you hit the power button either the battery is dead or the device is hard bricked. If it does anything else all like those mentioned it's not bricked.
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
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Well sorry for posting in the wrong section..
Anyways, could it be a faulty power circuit/mobo?

What you described sounded more like "sudden death syndrome" a hard brick is always caused by flashing the wrong files. Check for the method to fix without a JTAG but you need to find the international "debrick image" to write to an sd that could work if it is bricked
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[Q] Any way to ensure data wipe of Hard Bricked Tablet

On a recent related thread I asked if there was any way to confirm if my tablet is in fact hard bricked. aside from me trying to find someone that knows enough about electronics and electricity to check the battery and power input/output using a Multimeter, the general idea is that it is in fact dead for random and unknown reasons T_T life sucks right now.
anyway, the question I want to pose here is: Assuming my tablet is in fact hard bricked, is there any way to ensure that all the data is wiped? If there is any sliver of a chance that I can salvage this to someone for a few bucks, I need to make sure the data cannot be retrieved. I feel that this is far too random to be a straight Hard Brick situation and think that Im just missing something. Im sure someone could bring it to life, but if they do, theres stuff on there that I cant let them have.
Any thoughts?