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Bricked?

Pretty sure it is. From a battery pull, phone will not power up. After pressing the power button the phone will vibrate once after a few seconds, but nothing else. Attempting to boot into the bootloader (power+volume down) does absolutely nothing. Any suggestions?

Pull the battery then plug it into the charger and let it charge for about an hour then try to turn it on.
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james873 said:
Pull the battery then plug it into the charger and let it charge for about an hour then try to turn it on.
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It's not due to a drained/dead battery. I should have mentioned I already ruled that out. I did just that, plus tested with a spare battery. No change.

misery in motion said:
It's not due to a drained/dead battery. I should have mentioned I already ruled that out. I did just that, plus tested with a spare battery. No change.
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Dang sorry to hear it misery. What exactly did you do to brick it, if you dont mind me asking.
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I'm happy to report I've successfully unbricked my phone. For those curious about the actions I took, continue reading.
First off, what caused my phone to behave the way it did is beyond me. I had a hunch the phone was powering up and booting though as it was giving me that vibrate.
Here's what I did. Pulled the battery and let it sit for 5 min. Reinserted the battery and connected the phone to my computer. It gave me the charge indicator LED. I pressed the power button and let sit for about another 5 minutes. No indication from the phone that anything was happening mind you.
I ran a RUU to see if it saw the phone. Low and behold it did. The phone still appeared dead. I let the RUU run and do it's thing. After completion my phone successfully rebooted and loaded up just fine.
Although I do not know what caused the anomaly, I suspect firmware corruption/malfunction.
Anyway, all seems to be well now.
*phew*

[Q] Can pulling the battery cause a brick?

I was playing around with my phone and pulled the battery. Tried to reboot and nothing happens. When I plug it into the computer I hear the connected usb sound but nothing happens? Any suggestions? Bricked?

TheTechNiq said:
I was playing around with my phone and pulled the battery. Tried to reboot and nothing happens. When I plug it into the computer I hear the connected usb sound but nothing happens? Any suggestions? Bricked?
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what were you doing when you pulled the battery?.. if you were just using your phone normally, and pulled the battery then i seriously doubt your phone is bricked because of it.. I pull my battery all the time..

This in no way shape or form cause your phone to brick. I believe that either your phone is about to die or it simply froze. Try taking the battery out, leave it out for 15 seconds insert it back in and let it turn on. If your using a custom rom, that might be the problem. That means there is a defect with the rom.

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This in no way shape or form cause your phone to brick. I believe that either your phone is about to die or it simply froze. Try taking the battery out, leave it out for 15 seconds insert it back in and let it turn on. If your using a custom rom, that might be the problem. That means there is a defect with the rom.
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probably not a good thing to do in the middle of a flash though..

Must've been a defect in a custom rom. I flashed it and it was up and running for 15 min. Decided to pull battery and boom. What would be wrong in the custom rom for it to boot succesfully. Let me play around and then not start up again?

TheTechNiq said:
Must've been a defect in a custom rom. I flashed it and it was up and running for 15 min. Decided to pull battery and boom. What would be wrong in the custom rom for it to boot succesfully. Let me play around and then not start up again?
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Well if the phone was working, chances are that your phone is recoverable... But there are those times when phones just died.... But not from a battery pull... Just died and not turning on type of deal. Oh and you should just leave your battery out for like 5 minutes as opposed to 15 seconds. I know that worked for me when i had the amaze.
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Umm ive done that more than five times and got the same trouble but just do the button combination to get to cwm.. i did that and i always got in it... not sire if it was luck or nor but try it and if u get to it just factory reset dalvik cache bla bla... again... it worked for me somehow
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[Q] GS3 won't charge and boot loop...need help fast.

My wife is on vacation driving down to MS (from WV) and her phone died.
She was talking on it and co-pilot was running and then the phone shut off.
She couldn't reboot it, it would boot, then try and reboot and make a vibrate pattern like "beeeeeeppp beep beep" repeatedly and never boot. I told her (on the phone) that it might be that her battery was just dead.
So i had her turn the phone off and then put it on the charger.
Well, it's 10 hours later on a charge and the same thing is happening. She can't boot, she can't get into recovery, when she does the 3 finger salute the same thing happens....the vibration pattern.
She's been running aristodemos without problems up until now.
What do you think could be the problem? Battery? Charging port dead?
She said she's going to find an AT&T store while she's down there and tell them that her phone won't charge...could they charge her battery for her.
What do you think? Should we wait until she's back here and just put my battery in the phone? I ask because I don't want them to figure out that she's rooted and not help her.

rpavich said:
My wife is on vacation driving down to MS (from WV) and her phone died.
She was talking on it and co-pilot was running and then the phone shut off.
She couldn't reboot it, it would boot, then try and reboot and make a vibrate pattern like "beeeeeeppp beep beep" repeatedly and never boot. I told her (on the phone) that it might be that her battery was just dead.
So i had her turn the phone off and then put it on the charger.
Well, it's 10 hours later on a charge and the same thing is happening. She can't boot, she can't get into recovery, when she does the 3 finger salute the same thing happens....the vibration pattern.
She's been running aristodemos without problems up until now.
What do you think could be the problem? Battery? Charging port dead?
She said she's going to find an AT&T store while she's down there and tell them that her phone won't charge...could they charge her battery for her.
What do you think? Should we wait until she's back here and just put my battery in the phone? I ask because I don't want them to figure out that she's rooted and not help her.
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Sounds like what happened to my cousin's Note. I tried to root it and it did 3 beeps and boot loop. It might need recovery. If a nandroid is available on her phone then she needs to restore it if possible. If not, recovery via Kies is the next option. Unfortunately, Kies wipes everything.
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Sounds like what happened to my cousin's Note. I tried to root it and it did 3 beeps and boot loop. It might need recovery. If a nandroid is available on her phone then she needs to restore it if possible. If not, recovery via Kies is the next option. Unfortunately, Kies wipes everything.
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She can't get to recovery so how is she going to get to a nandroid backup?
How could she use kies if the phone won't even boot? Not understanding.

rpavich said:
She can't get to recovery so how is she going to get to a nandroid backup?
How could she use kies if the phone won't even boot? Not understanding.
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Sorry, I missed that somehow. A new battery might be worth a shot. Try yours when she gets back. AT&T will get another battery and see if it works.
It sounds more like a hardbrick. I hope it's not.
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Do you know if she can get into download mode?
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rail205 said:
Do you know if she can get into download mode?
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I don't think so...I'm not sure why but when she tries, nothing happens. I'm coaching her remotely so It could be that she's just not doing it right or that the battery won't even get her to that point....i'm not sure why but at this point, she can't.
If she could...we'd be in good shape, I'd have her wipe the phone and start over.
I'm not sure whether I should tell her to hold off until she gets home to try my battery or go to the ATT store...I'd hate for them to put a new battery in and have it do something that shows that it's running a leaked rom and rooted....though I'm not sure what they'd do.
Would they just tell her to go away or would they note it on the account like we were somehow not entitled to warranty assistance even if we put it back to stock?

rpavich said:
I don't think so...I'm not sure why but when she tries, nothing happens. I'm coaching her remotely so It could be that she's just not doing it right or that the battery won't even get her to that point....i'm not sure why but at this point, she can't.
If she could...we'd be in good shape, I'd have her wipe the phone and start over.
I'm not sure whether I should tell her to hold off until she gets home to try my battery or go to the ATT store...I'd hate for them to put a new battery in and have it do something that shows that it's running a leaked rom and rooted....though I'm not sure what they'd do.
Would they just tell her to go away or would they note it on the account like we were somehow not entitled to warranty assistance even if we put it back to stock?
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They might report it, but when I had a hardbrick on my Atrix, I took it there. They didn't report it. If all else fails, report it lost and get another one. The best way to know is wait for her to get back.
Does the phone even turn on for a split second?
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Apocalypse487 said:
They might report it, but when I had a hardbrick on my Atrix, I took it there. They didn't report it. If all else fails, report it lost and get another one. The best way to know is wait for her to get back.
Does the phone even turn on for a split second?
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It turns on but tries to boot....black screen and vibrations is all that happens. When that has happened to my phone I just recovered it so I'm not sure why hers isn't recoverable...operator error or it's just bricked.
I guess I'll just tell her to wait until she gets back unless someone has a better idea.

rpavich said:
It turns on but tries to boot....black screen and vibrations is all that happens. When that has happened to my phone I just recovered it so I'm not sure why hers isn't recoverable...operator error or it's just bricked.
I guess I'll just tell her to wait until she gets back unless someone has a better idea.
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If it turns on even for a second there might be a good chance to save it. Best thing to do is to wait. You can probably recover it using odin. My cousin's Note did that too, but he got lucky. I managed to fix it using Kies. I hope it works out.
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I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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escocrx said:
I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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You can get 2 batteries and charger for $24. It's on Amazon
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escocrx said:
I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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Are you saying that your phone won't charge now? You have to take the battery out? Or are you saying that once you got it above 0v then you were back to normal?

OK.....situation solved!
Here is what happened:
She was using Co-Pilot and talking on the phone with the phone plugged into the charging jack in the car. It wasn't charging fast enough to keep up with usage, so it went dead dead dead.
So after she hooked it up to the charger...it still didnt' charge fast enough to get enough charge in the phone to enter recovery.
She got to the motel, plugged it in and left it overnight. Rebooted into recovery this morning and did a factory wipe and all is well.
Thanks for the help guys.

The phone was unable to charge it. The stand alone battery charger could. I just dont let it go zero anymore
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rpavich said:
OK.....situation solved!
Here is what happened:
She was using Co-Pilot and talking on the phone with the phone plugged into the charging jack in the car. It wasn't charging fast enough to keep up with usage, so it went dead dead dead.
So after she hooked it up to the charger...it still didnt' charge fast enough to get enough charge in the phone to enter recovery.
She got to the motel, plugged it in and left it overnight. Rebooted into recovery this morning and did a factory wipe and all is well.
Thanks for the help guys.
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Good to hear. Keep a spare battery as back up I guess.
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Soft Bricked

So, my LGOG is soft-bricked with a dead battery (happened during a twrp backup, although i swear it was at least 60% when i started). I can get to fastboot by holding vol up and power, and then plugging it in (i lgnpst'd teenybin), but when i try to load recovery it shows a black screen that says google and has an unlocked padlock at the bottom for an instant, then dies.
Everyone on IRC has been very helpful, especially autoprime. When i plug it in, the cap button lights and the red led flash. I plugged it the wall in for about 30 minutes, no heat, nothing. So I am just going to leave it unplugged for the night in hopes something will reset or die enough that the battery charges next time i plug it in. Otherwise I will try a battery pull, and go from there.
If anyone has any insight on getting my battery charged via another method, it is certainly welcome and appreciated.

Did it charge? I'm curios if you fixed it.
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ABurningFalcon said:
Did it charge? I'm curios if you fixed it.
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No, but I have not done the battery pull yet.

rumgool said:
No, but I have not done the battery pull yet.
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It may have just been my luck, but when this happened to me, I put the phone into download mode by plugging into a USB port while holding volume up and volume down. After that, I unplugged and powered off, then plugged back in to normal ac charger, and it began to charge, as it showed the battery icon. Left it for a bit, then booted it up no problem. Might be worth a try before opening the phone.
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outerpip said:
It may have just been my luck, but when this happened to me, I put the phone into download mode by plugging into a USB port while holding volume up and volume down. After that, I unplugged and powered off, then plugged back in to normal ac charger, and it began to charge, as it showed the battery icon. Left it for a bit, then booted it up no problem. Might be worth a try before opening the phone.
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Well, when i unplug mine from download mode, it dies immediately, so i don't think I am getting an opportunity to power it off to reset, but I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion!
UPDATE: I tried, but with no avail, it just goes back to flashing alternately between the cap lights and the red led. I am going to try flashing zv9 stock in lgnpst, to see if maybe i can get into stock recovery.

maybe try charging from download mode? only thing i can think of

Battery pull LGOG worked
Well, battery pull worked! As soon as I flipped that battery bracket back down, the phone powered up and booted fine.
Now here is the interesting part... my phone powered back up and the battery was at 69%. It was not by any means dead. I even left it off the charger for a while to confirm. So, something happened during my TWRP backup that tripped a fault. Could allowing the screen to timeout in TWRP have caused this?
Either way, I want to thank autoprime again for helping me get to this point. My LGOG is back!

rumgool said:
Well, battery pull worked! As soon as I flipped that battery bracket back down, the phone powered up and booted fine.
Now here is the interesting part... my phone powered back up and the battery was at 69%. It was not by any means dead. I even left it off the charger for a while to confirm. So, something happened during my TWRP backup that tripped a fault. Could allowing the screen to timeout in TWRP have caused this?
Either way, I want to thank autoprime again for helping me get to this point. My LGOG is back!
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Sounds like a corrupt restore!

hooover said:
Sounds like a corrupt restore!
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Well since I LGNPSTd back when jelly bean leaked and I flashed the update, I have not done anything but root. In fact, I had just installed FreeGee and installed TWRP 2.5 and was doing my first backup. So, something must have gotten corrupt during the backup; possibly because I was on the flashed update vs the OTA, idk...

apparently letting your rooted and unlocked LGOG die results in a brick.

my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?

85gslse said:
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
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Happened to my wife's phone, i had enough charge to where I could get into the bootloader and do a reboot and plugged the charger back in and it booted up and charged. It almost happened again tonight, the screen was dark when she plugged it into the charge then 5 mins later the charging indicator on the screen popped up. You can def get it to work again just try to get into your bootloader and do a reboot. Just make sure you have the charge plugged in because the first time i encountered this it booted up but turned off and soft bricked again.

85gslse said:
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
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Lgnpst is the easiest fix. Can also force it to turn off by holding power, then put in fast boot mode.
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Lgnpst worked after about everything that could have gone wrong did and then some what a headache, definitely not worth the root. Anyone wanna buy a lgog? I need a more dev friendly phone

85gslse said:
my phone died and i went to charge it and got soft bricked, anyone have this happen?
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I've had mine die a few times with no problems. At least three instances on zvb and once on EOS. Just my two cents.

I believe what you need next time is to use the sbl unlock in free gee next time. That fixed this issue for me.
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xboxfanj said:
I believe what you need next time is to use the sbl unlock in free gee next time. That fixed this issue for me.
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I used the that unlock method, I had been rooted with ZERO issues for a month and my phone had died at least 3 times before that, i was really baffled that it bricked, I am back to stock for now, might build the courage to do it all over again, pissed me off though i lost so much stuff. :crying:

i had the same issue, all i did was just plug into the charger let it sit then hit the power button. when the phone shut off it showed the charging icon on the screen. i ended up waiting it out and the device fired up with 2% battery then i put the phone to sleep and charged the rest of the way.

I have this issue every time my phone dies. It doesn't brick.
If I plug the phone in the screen will just light up but won't charge properly. I have to let it charge up enough. Then go into the bootloader and reboot from there. Let it turn on. Then charge it while it is on.
Try it. I'm pretty sure you aren't soft bricked.
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eyeisdasteve said:
I have this issue every time my phone dies. It doesn't brick.
If I plug the phone in the screen will just light up but won't charge properly. I have to let it charge up enough. Then go into the bootloader and reboot from there. Let it turn on. Then charge it while it is on.
Try it. I'm pretty sure you aren't soft bricked.
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The nexus sbls are really helping me.
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