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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

Not even two weeks in & getting another Nexus.

So long story short at the beginning of this month i called Verizon because i was having major issues with my Nexus and was able to get them to cough up a brand new one instead of refurbished device and was super excited, got the new phone and began having issues right out of the box. At first i thought it had to do with unlocking and rooting but found out soon enough it was something wrong with the device, i lost count on how many times ive gone back to stock and how many factory resets ive done.
Camera app would crash when i was focusing, zooming, turning flash on off & same with video record. I could only record for about 10 seconds (if that) before getting either a black screen or a beautiful force close screen and to top it off sometimes i would have to battery pull in order to even get the camera back up and running for another 10 seconds.
YouTube i couldnt watch more then 40 to 60 seconds of any video before it would completely just freeze except for the audio. I would force close this app and the audio would just keep going and this was no matter if i was on a call or not i could here the audio in the back round.
Other apps on the phone where behaving the same and today i finally was fed up so i made a trip down to the store and got the whole store involved with attempting to figure out what the hell was going on with it, manager said this is the first device since release that he or his employees have seen with this type of issue. What was even more shocking to him was that it was a brand new device and then he hit me with he couldnt give me another new one but a refurbished one that he could order so i decided to leave the store and come home to spend the last 45min on the phone with a VZW tech and finally i got him and his supervisor to budge, another new device should be here tomorrow and hopefully i wont have any issues with but only time will tell. My point of this post is to not only rant of course and get some feedback from members to see if anyone else out there is having or has had any issues like this??
I also thought about waiting for the supposedly 4.0.4 update to drop tomorrow but honestly at this point with how many factory resets ive done and have been running stock no unlock or root for two days i think its honestly something wrong with this damn phone i got rather then something wrong with permissions or anything like that. Anyhow so much for a short story let me know what you guys think.
Thanks.

Well...that just sounds like terrible, horrible luck...
Should have gotten an iPhone perhaps

the one u have should still be under warranty...send it back

Why do people say long story short... AND THERE STORY ISNT SHORT AT ALL.
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ÜBER™ said:
Why do people say long story short... AND THERE STORY ISNT SHORT AT ALL.
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Right? Lol.
...of the people, by the people, for the people...

I wanna hear the long version now.
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http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/412656/long-story-short

WiredPirate said:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/412656/long-story-short
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Exactly what I was thinking of HA!
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You are lucky that you got a new one. I am receiving my fourth refurbished "like new" Galaxy Nexus from Verizon this week. Every single one I get mutes the audio on the other caller's end, and one of these phones also would drop data when it went to sleep.
I get the feeling that people are turning in their Nexus phones because of the dropping audio problem, and then Verizon is sending them right back out because they can't find the problem in their testing. How in the world could I get 4 straight broken Galaxy Nexuses?
I really don't want to have to switch to a Razr...

Should have gotten the refurbed one, atleast that way a human was working on it, to see if it functions right.
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[Q] need some help going back to stock

OK so i know this info is scattered around, but frankly i am a little confused at this point. i'll start with my situation.
i'm running slick ricks AOKP JB rom. i was on build three for very long, skipping several updates until milestone 1.2. i did a dirty flash (right over build three) and it seemed to work, until i started to have battery issues. my phone would die if i used it for more than a minute anywhere under 60%, and was unable to power back on. upon plugging it in, the battery started charging right back up from 60% or whatever percentage it died at. i blame my dirty flash. i upgraded to 1.3 and it's even worse, it dies anywhere under 90% now.
so, i was thinking i need to just bite the bullet and start from el26 with cwm. but i started to get confused at about this point. if i'm using a jellybean rom, do i need to use "JB Touch-Wiz Based Kernels" or is it okay to flash from el26?
second, it has been very very long since i had to go back to stock and i was just gonna try and start from el26 and see how it went, without bothering yall. i clicked on the link in the sticky thread w/ all the kernels and get redirected to a new repository. can someone confirm that this section is what i want to be using? and the oneclick exes are probably most dummy proof, yes?
thanks in advance guys. i was never very pro at this, and now i'm just in need of some clarification.
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knew i was missing something... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1903252 flashing now and i'll report back.

ok. i'm on gingerbread for now. gosh touch wiz is sooo ugly why samsung....
anyway the battery is still out of control. the black gaps are where it dies.
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husker apollo said:
ok. i'm on gingerbread for now. gosh touch wiz is sooo ugly why samsung....
anyway the battery is still out of control. the black gaps are where it dies.
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Before you do anything else please pull the battery and try to spin it on a flat surface.
$100 says it spins... and all your problems are due to a bad battery.
Exchange it, replace it.. and those problems will go away. :angel:

garwynn said:
Before you do anything else please pull the battery and try to spin it on a flat surface.
$100 says it spins... and all your problems are due to a bad battery.
Exchange it, replace it.. and those problems will go away. :angel:
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wow i have been wanting to just throw my phone at a wall for like 2 weeks now. it does spin, and it's noticably bloated looking and i never even thought to look at it like that... OOOMMGGG. haha. ok. so i have a spare battery but it's only 1500 mah so i usually keep it swapped out. going to do some testing here. this is nuts. so its possible i never even truly needed to go back to stock even...
but yea it spins on both sides. my extra is totally flat. that's amazing.
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so i pay the 8 bux a month or whatever, on my bill, thru sprint for the warranty. is the battery covered? anyone know if its worth going to a store to try and get a free replacement?

husker apollo said:
wow i have been wanting to just throw my phone at a wall for like 2 weeks now. it does spin, and it's noticably bloated looking and i never even thought to look at it like that... OOOMMGGG. haha. ok. so i have a spare battery but it's only 1500 mah so i usually keep it swapped out. going to do some testing here. this is nuts. so its possible i never even truly needed to go back to stock even...
but yea it spins on both sides. my extra is totally flat. that's amazing.
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so i pay the 8 bux a month or whatever, on my bill, thru sprint for the warranty. is the battery covered? anyone know if its worth going to a store to try and get a free replacement?
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Go in and show them it spins. Any store supporting TEP should replace it for free. If you have time call ahead and make sure you get that same answer as well as a name to hold accountable. Should avoid most hassles that way.
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garwynn said:
Go in and show them it spins. Any store supporting TEP should replace it for free. If you have time call ahead and make sure you get that same answer as well as a name to hold accountable. Should avoid most hassles that way.
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just reporting in 24 hours later, my spare battery has no issues. it's very likely i never had to go thru the hassle of going back to stock. i'm on slick's 1.3 build again and happy happy happy. hopefully this info helps out anyone else with bizarre power issues. i'm going to go into a sprint shop over the weekend and see if i can't get a free replacement for the samsung battery, i'll let y'all know how that goes.

Red screen please read

I have bought this phone new about 10 days ago, and I had used official ICS, Cyanogen 10.1.3 and I switched back to stock ICS again. Cyanogenmod had problem with games for me. When I put it on ICS again, besides random reboots, sometimes phone just turned off and when I pulled the battery and put it back to turn on the phone, a red screen appeared, like red halo or something, and it dissapears over time, also when that happens the battery falls down drasticaly. It was turned off for like 15 minutes and when I turned it on the battery went from 100% to 83%. Should I return it since it is under warranty? Or is this another issue with ICS?

kirov37 said:
I have bought this phone new about 10 days ago, and I had used official ICS, Cyanogen 10.1.3 and I switched back to stock ICS again. Cyanogenmod had problem with games for me. When I put it on ICS again, besides random reboots, sometimes phone just turned off and when I pulled the battery and put it back to turn on the phone, a red screen appeared, like red halo or something, and it dissapears over time, also when that happens the battery falls down drasticaly. It was turned off for like 15 minutes and when I turned it on the battery went from 100% to 83%. Should I return it since it is under warranty? Or is this another issue with ICS?
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Sounds like a hardware defect to me. Just make sure it is 100% stock for the warranty.
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Swetnes said:
Sounds like a hardware defect to me. Just make sure it is 100% stock for the warranty.
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I have found some threads where people said they had that red screen issue on official ICS. But since I have returned to Gingerbread (though rooted one) it seems that issues have gone away. Well the warranty is 2 years so I have some time to decide Thanks for reply...

The issue is because the phone go on deep sleep but start overheating... So when you pull the battrry thr screen is already hot..
Happen here a lot of time with different phone( i'm at my 4th phone under waranty)
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Trying to revive the dead...
Hello friends..
I have owned a LG Nitro HD since April 12. From 7- 8 months since owning the phone (after upgrading to official ICS), one fine day got a dark red screen (sort of a halo). After that started getting different design patterns on the phone. But the phone used to start even after that. This occurred few more times and the phone refused to boot at all.
Since the phone was in warranty, got it replaced.
Fast forward to September-13 with the replaced phone. I had rooted the phone and had tried different ROMS too. The phone was working fine.
Again, one fine day, I saw that dreaded red screen halo......and thats the end of it. Since then the phone has not booted. When trying to boot, it shows the LG logo, but then the screen just fades away. However i am able to go to the factory reset screen using the volume and power key.
Took the phone to ATT, they said it seems to be an hardware issue. And the phone was out of warranty, so bad luck...
I tried using the unbricking methods mentioned, but since the phone is not detected on PC nor able to do anything from the phone, so I have lost any hopes to revive.
Wanted to post since about a month, but was reluctant. Just saw this thread and thought of seeking if there is any sort of solution to this.
Here is the one of the pattern screen that i see on my phone.
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Replacement phone modified?

I just got an I there s4 from tmobile because my charger port was loose. The new s4 is on mk2 modem and 4.3 bootloader. If I hit update software in the settings I get 'your phone is modified and cannot get updates' . I haven't even installed a single app yet. Should I return this one too?
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PostMeridianLyf said:
I just got an I there s4 from tmobile because my charger port was loose. The new s4 is on mk2 modem and 4.3 bootloader. If I hit update software in the settings I get 'your phone is modified and cannot get updates' . I haven't even installed a single app yet. Should I return this one too?
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It's a refurbished phone that the factory didn't wipe properly. It had been rooted and the factory just did a full wipe. (Someone got lazy)
If it's on 4.3 it's probably got the Knox bootloader, meaning you can't just Odin it back to stock and make it like nothing happened. You can check this by booting into download mode (power and volume down) and seeing if it says it in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
Personally though, since you just got the phone and it's clearly not been properly refurbished, I'd send it back. Even if you can fix the software issue there is obviously something wrong with it because someone has already sent it back and you know it wasn't properly refurbished. So you might run into another problem later.
I'd tell T Mobile to send you a new one, and make it clear that you're not going to pay the $20 for shipping since they sent you a broken phone.

Skipjacks said:
It's a refurbished phone that the factory didn't wipe properly. It had been rooted and the factory just did a full wipe. (Someone got lazy)
If it's on 4.3 it's probably got the Knox bootloader, meaning you can't just Odin it back to stock and make it like nothing happened. You can check this by booting into download mode (power and volume down) and seeing if it says it in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
Personally though, since you just got the phone and it's clearly not been properly refurbished, I'd send it back. Even if you can fix the software issue there is obviously something wrong with it because someone has already sent it back and you know it wasn't properly refurbished. So you might run into another problem later.
I'd tell T Mobile to send you a new one, and make it clear that you're not going to pay the $20 for shipping since they sent you a broken phone.
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Thanks man, took your advice and they are sending another free of charge. I never knew they sent refurb phones back if your new one breaks. Always thought they sent brand new phones. I guess that's why they only send the phone with no battery or back cover.
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PostMeridianLyf said:
Thanks man, took your advice and they are sending another free of charge. I never knew they sent refurb phones back if your new one breaks. Always thought they sent brand new phones. I guess that's why they only send the phone with no battery or back cover.
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Yup. And you're going to get another refurb too to replace that last one.
The easy was to tell is the label under the battery. If it's a new phone the label looks like this...
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If it's a refurbished phone the label is different. It's a little thinner as I recall. (Sorry, I couldnt' find a picture of one.)
The refurb facility is not the manufacturing plant so they have slightly different stickers.
Usually the refurbs are fine. I wouldn't worry about getting the next one. I had a refurbed S4 for a while and it was better than the new one I had originally. (It didn't survive being dropped onto the granite sink in my bathroom, then subsequently the tile floor. But it was better before that!)
You just got a bad one from a lazy worker at the refurb place who didn't do a thorough job. As soon as you get the new one though test it thoroughly. Make sure every system works. Bluetooth, GPS, LTE, GSM, every spot on teh touchscreen, etc etc etc