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[Q] Sprint Galaxy S III Rooted/Installed ROM... Now won't power on. Help!

Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum and I'm looking for a little help today.
I rooted my new Sprint Galaxy S III using Odin3-v3.04, and CWM_SuperUser_v3.0.7. Afterwards I rebooted and all was good.
I then downloaded I9300_Omega_v6.0_XXALF6 ROM and loaded on my phone and rebooted into recovery to install the ROM. I went through the install process, selected remove bloatware and installed. When finished I checked the reboot phone and clicked finish. The phone turned off and didn't ever turn back on.
I have pulled the battery and tried to power on using recovery, download mode and just power but nothing works.
Anyone have any idea what I can do?
Thank you for your time and help.

alexanderd said:
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum and I'm looking for a little help today.
I rooted my new Sprint Galaxy S III using Odin3-v3.04, and CWM_SuperUser_v3.0.7. Afterwards I rebooted and all was good.
I then downloaded I9300_Omega_v6.0_XXALF6 ROM and loaded on my phone and rebooted into recovery to install the ROM. I went through the install process, selected remove bloatware and installed. When finished I checked the reboot phone and clicked finish. The phone turned off and didn't ever turn back on.
I have pulled the battery and tried to power on using recovery, download mode and just power but nothing works.
Anyone have any idea what I can do?
Thank you for your time and help.
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development area has a thread for that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727171
ONLY use ROMs that you'll find here in these threads not the I9300; that s a different phone from ours.

Thanks I'll check there.

Honestly I was waiting for this to happen gid luck restoring it phone
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But seriously I hope you learned your lesson and will read and hope you get your phone fixed or replaced
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Epix4G said:
But seriously I hope you learned your lesson and will read and hope you get your phone fixed or replaced
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Hopefully this fail helps us all back from a potential brick. We live, flash and learn.
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New phone on the way!
I was able to get a replacement sent from Sprint. Had to go to a corporate store and have a tech look at the phone and they agreed it was toast...
Luckily they didn't know it was due to my failed attempt to load an unsupported ROM.
Lesson learned... new phone should be in by the end of the week.
I'll be waiting for a supported ROM this time.

alexanderd said:
I was able to get a replacement sent from Sprint. Had to go to a corporate store and have a tech look at the phone and they agreed it was toast...
Luckily they didn't know it was due to my failed attempt to load an unsupported ROM.
Lesson learned... new phone should be in by the end of the week.
I'll be waiting for a supported ROM this time.
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No wonder our insurance deductibles keep going up...

bizdady said:
No wonder our insurance deductibles keep going up...
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+1
Still sucks for op
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matrixzone5 said:
Honestly I was waiting for this to happen gid luck restoring it phone
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Oh man tell me about it, I almost stupidly went on to the CM9 nightlies and downloaded the I9300 version before I thought to myself, "well wait a minute, that's not my model number!"
Duh, shoulda had a V8.

I didnt install a GSM rom but still managed to brick somehow. Didnt touch any system files or do anything to where i should be bricked either. Any idea when a full stock Odin package will be made? My phone has been bricked for almost 2 days now
Edit: i started a tread here a few days ago -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731416 if anyone cares to look or has any advice for me
Thanks

pizzlewizzle said:
I didnt install a GSM rom but still managed to brick somehow. Didnt touch any system files or do anything to where i should be bricked either. Any idea when a full stock Odin package will be made? My phone has been bricked for almost 2 days now
Edit: i started a tread here a few days ago -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731416 if anyone cares to look or has any advice for me
Thanks
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What have you tried so far? Have you tried reflashing cwm recovery in Odin?

I did the same thing that the OP said, flashed that omega rom and now my phone wont turn on either.
I was going to try the jig method

taygutta said:
I did the same thing that the OP said, flashed that omega rom and now my phone wont turn on either.
I was going to try the jig method
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Have you tried mskip's fix??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727171

bizdady said:
Have you tried mskip's fix??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727171
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I want to do this but I somehow need to get the phone on. The buttons dont work.

Any luck?
My phone got stuck booting, so I tried to install the omega rom. The install worked well, and I clicked "reboot." Now the phone won't turn on. I can't get to ODIN or recovery anymore.
Did you guys find any fixes?

brickeds3 said:
My phone got stuck booting, so I tried to install the omega rom. The install worked well, and I clicked "reboot." Now the phone won't turn on. I can't get to ODIN or recovery anymore.
Did you guys find any fixes?
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What happened is that you flashed a rom that was meant for the international version of the S3 and your on the US version. The only fix I have found is to send it to mobiletechvideos.com. I did and they say they can fix it and maybe save my data I have on it ( I just sent it in)
My fingers are crossed for the data recovery but as far as the phone I am going to send it for a exchange anyway.

Welp, I'm sad to say I just did the same thing too. Should have read. I'm a stinkin noob at this. I installed the I9300 version on a US version phone. Has there been any more development on this? Is the hardware fried, or is there a fix through that mobiletechvideos.com that was mentioned? What was the outcome of that, Taygutta, if you don't mind me re-bringing back up a potentially painful topic?? This thread made me a little sick, since it's my brother's new phone (someone else that knew what they were doing rooted it for him but he didn't like the rom, so I thought I would help him find a few other options to try flashing.)
Anyway, any confirmation that I'm buying my brother a new phone (so I can emotionally prepare for the purchase) or are there some other options?

There's one more thing you can try. There's a little device called a USB Jig. It was made for SGS-2 to clear the yellow triangle and reset flash counts in ODIN mode. It also puts your phone in ODIN mode by simply plugging it into the USB port of a powered down phone. Once in ODIN mode, you can reflash a stock ROM, recovery, etc. You can buy these for around $20 or less on the web.
If this does not work, I'm afraid nothing will.
Good luck.

6uPMAH said:
There's one more thing you can try. There's a little device called a USB Jig. It was made for SGS-2 to clear the yellow triangle and reset flash counts in ODIN mode. It also puts your phone in ODIN mode by simply plugging it into the USB port of a powered down phone. Once in ODIN mode, you can reflash a stock ROM, recovery, etc. You can buy these for around $20 or less on the web.
If this does not work, I'm afraid nothing will.
Good luck.
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Somewhere in the thread an answer exists. You are not the first to do this.
I think the jig is the best way.
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Sudden Boot Loops - I'm Lost

I've been using my Galaxy Nexus for a month or so, with the official JB ROM (JR30C or whatever, deodexed and rooted) and today I opened Gmail.
That's it. I opened GMail, switched accounts, and my phone has been bootlooping ever since.
I wiped everything in CWM multiple times and reflashed it, and I can't get the phone to do anything else.
Any clues?

Do you have a working nandroid? Have you tried flashing a different ROM?
Allons-y

Xfanatic said:
Do you have a working nandroid? Have you tried flashing a different ROM?
Allons-y
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I do not have a working NANDROID. I wasn't sure about the Internet policies at work, but it looks like I can at least make it on here, I'm not sure I'll be able to download another ROM.
I'm confused though, I mean I know it would help to try as many options as possible (to fix it) - but this ROM has been working for weeks. And the phone died randomly, not due to a recent file change or a botched program. The only boot loops I've experienced before were on the Nexus One, and it was always due to a buggy/bad flash or a corrupted ROM download - this one just developed epilepsy on its own...

Here's my plan, since these are the only things I can manage to download due to restrictions on Internet usage at work.
Factory 4.1.1 takju image from here : https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju
Modified ODIN software here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1586807
ODIN won't rewrite my bootloader, recovery, or userdata, since I already OEM unlocked, but will reflash a stock image.
EDIT: ODIN won't do anything with my device. Trying this ROM instead:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801664 was using bigxie OTA before.

is your (sd)storage recognized? thus is a similar symptom to when the stirage goes bad.

Hook the phone up to adb, boot it, and let logcat run. Maybe that will turn something up.
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simms22 said:
is your (sd)storage recognized? thus is a similar symptom to when the stirage goes bad.
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Hmm, you know, I'm not able to find the option to mount to USB in CWM...and just in case I forgot where that is, when I plug it in, I get the "hardware failed" noise from Windows and not the usual friendly "plug in" sound.
infazzdar said:
Hook the phone up to adb, boot it, and let logcat run. Maybe that will turn something up.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
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I'm at work, and I only have my work computer. Group/secpolicy won't allow me to install anything, no admin rights, etc.
Would it even do anything? The phone barely makes it through one second of the boot animation before it loops.

sheik124 said:
Hmm, you know, I'm not able to find the option to mount to USB in CWM...and just in case I forgot where that is, when I plug it in, I get the "hardware failed" noise from Windows and not the usual friendly "plug in" sound.
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you cant mount the sd card. there is no USB mass storage period. not in recovery or booted normally.

Zepius said:
you cant mount the sd card. there is no USB mass storage period. not in recovery or booted normally.
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Oy. Then how do I get another ROM on here? fastboot/adb?

sheik124 said:
Oy. Then how do I get another ROM on here? fastboot/adb?
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Adb push.
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Zepius said:
you cant mount the sd card. there is no USB mass storage period. not in recovery or booted normally.
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sheik124 said:
Oy. Then how do I get another ROM on here? fastboot/adb?
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Got more than one additional ROM on there via adb/recovery - my clue that CWM hasn't actually been able to do anything since the phone start looping is I'm still getting my custom boot animation.
I'm using the toolkit to reflash a stock image now. What a mess.
Even reflashing a stock image via fastboot did nothing. WTF happened to my phone? Won't stay on long enough to get a logcat

I'm having the same problem as this guy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827685&page=2
I just got finished trying to flash 4.1.1 using ODIN. It still shows me the custom animation from bigxie's ROM (which has supposedly since been overwritten 2-4x times).
Screw you Samsung...this phone is a month old, I flashed -once- to rooted Jelly Bean, and the phone dies when I open the GMail app.
EDIT: WTF - I write screw you Samsung, it boots to the Welcome screen! Just long enough for me to see that my files aren't on it anymore, then it bootloops again. And again. Now it's re-stuck in a bootloop.
And now I'm at the homescreen. I can't rely on this thing like this...is my flash dying or something?

Nobody?
It worked long enough for me to re-enter all of my different Google account information and now it's dead again. Now it only flashes the boot animation for a split second for bootlooping.

I'm thinking of a hardware defect.
Beamed from my Grouper

Mach3.2 said:
I'm thinking of a hardware defect.
Beamed from my Grouper
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Mee too. As you can see from my signature, I gave up and bought a One S yesterday night from Craigslist. Feels like a true successor to the Desire / N1. It's nice to finally have an AMOLED screen that actually seems color calibrated after the ugly mess that was my RAZR and my less than perfect GNex. It's a damn shame how much more painless flashing a recovery was on this thing.
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Help! phone won't turn on (t959d koodo)

Hi,
I just got the phone and flashed a custom recovery. I flashed a new rom (liquidsmooth) and it looked like it was successful. I selected reboot and the screen shut off. Now, It won't turn on. It's possible that the battery died but shouldn't it turn on again once I plug in the usb cable? Is it possible to brick the device from cwm?
thanks

Dear lord I hope that's a typo because this is the t989(d) forums. If it is a typo and you're using a t989 then you probably need to wipe cache/dalvik.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989

As Mr. Mintharis said... I'm hoping as well that you had a typo and you didnt flash a T989 (GALAXY S2 TMobile) rom on a (GALAXY S) device. If so your probably hard bricked. If that was a typo and you did flash a rom and it wont turn on then there may be a few problems that are solvable. I got a few questions.
1. DId you do a factory reset before installing? Did you wipe system?
2. Can you get into CWM?
3. Can you get into Download Mode?
If you cant get into download mode, recovery, or get the phone to boot then you are in serious trouble because the phone is a a fancy paper weight. If you can however, you could try doing a full reset on all the settings and deleting cache/dalvik and then reflashing and trying again. However you may be in luck since you said you just got the phone. I'm assuming you got it from your carrier (I'm guessing its T-Mobile, idk any other carriers for this device) and they will replace a broken device (that does not have extensive physical damage or water damage) within 20 days of purchase date. Since your phone is hard bricked they will do it completely for free with no charge (usually... if they do.. it will be about 5$) and then you're good. They will overnight a phone to you and you just send your old one back when you get it (MAKE SURE TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PROPERLY SEND IT BACK!).
Sorry for the long post but wanted to be through and give you alot of answers in 1 time so we dont drag this post out.

That's my mistake, it was supposed to read t989d.
1) I did do a factory resets
2) & 3) I can't turn on the phone or get into download mode
I bought it from koodo (carrier in Canada) yesterday. I'm going to try to exchange it today; hopefully they'll do it. For future references, is there a specific way I should be flashing? I used to have a t959, the t-mobile vibrant, and never had any issues with cwm because it never touched download mode. Anyways, thanks for the replies.
Edit: I did flash using odin which hung a couple of times. Regardless, i eventually got it back to original condition by flashing the custom recovery (by odin with green pass) and doing a nandroid backup. The bad odin flashes should have been negated when I did nandroid backup, no?

You said you had the problems after you flashed liquidsmooth? Exactly which file did you download and flash from the site?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

Ok, just figured it out. I flashed wrong version of liquid smooth. The link in their thread goes to their facebook page and I clicked on the first link like an idiot. I got it exchanged a few minutes ago so all's well that ends well. Thanks all for the replies.
Lesson of the day: Don't be stupid.

mani_is_ms said:
Ok, just figured it out. I flashed wrong version of liquid smooth. The link in their thread goes to their facebook page and I clicked on the first link like an idiot. I got it exchanged a few minutes ago so all's well that ends well. Thanks all for the replies.
Lesson of the day: Don't be stupid.
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Read read read.. If you are not 100% sure what you are doing just ask someone.. Sometimes you will get flamed for it but it's better than getting a bricked phone lol and you'll most likely get an answer..
I'm glad you got it replaced
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[Q] Greetings, I understand I have a hard brick?

I first rooted and flashed a KANG JUGGERNAUT ROM 2 years ago, back when I first got my phone.
Just two days ago, a friend recommended flashing CM10 cause it's nearly up-to-date and stuff.
Was instructed to flash CM10 then GAPPS and wipe after; did so, boot loop.
Told me that I was supposed to wipe beforehand? Wish I known, still had soft bricks / boot loops.
Kept restoring and re-flashing; came to a point CWM became super slow, kept hanging when trying to restore/wipe.
Then I chose to flash ROM again, this time it kept rebooting/looping into installation process, hang, fail then rebooting to continue this cycle.
Told friend about it, said he'd look at it when he came over; cause my Odin kept crashing for some unknown reason.
He couldn't get it to stop boot looping so he offered to take back home where he said he had all the stuff he had installed on his PC/MAC.
After awhile he said it wouldn't boot anymore, hard brick.
Afterward he returned it to me, I confirmed a hard brick according to what I have searched/researched online.
Plugging into the USB gives me a connection beep but hitting the power button, gives a disconnect beep? So unable to go into download mode.
I have looked around and found a couple of possible solutions: JTAGGING and USB JIGGING
I'm not sure but I kept seeing a lot of testimony that jigging it wouldn't work on a hard brick phone, can anyone confirm this?
Not sure what JTAG is but apparently is the sure-fire way to get the device in working condition again; is this something I can do by myself?
I see the costs range from $50-100 but I'm not sure if I can afford that right now/tight pockets/strapped4cash/whatever as an unemployed student from LIF with other crazy stuff to deal with.
Worst come to worst, I will probably opt for this JTAG thing.
EDIT: I have this QHSUSB_DLOAD shown in the device manager as I connected the dead device; while searching/looking around, someone said it was fixable but it wasn't in the T989 thread so I'm unsure.
Is this really fixable? and if so, what would this exactly permit me to do after?
Any insight as what options I have? I really would like to get this resolved ASAP.
Thank you for reading; I am also located in NYC, if any locals can help.

Jtag
Hey buddy i recent hard bricked mine last month got it back today PM this guy tomy1986.nt only charged 25$ and had it back in 7 days sucker working good now hes in texas only cost me 5.80$ shipped from Phx Az hope that helps Sounds like a defint hard brick!!!

JahJahLoO said:
I first rooted and flashed a KANG JUGGERNAUT ROM 2 years ago, back when I first got my phone.
Just two days ago, a friend recommended flashing CM10 cause it's nearly up-to-date and stuff.
Was instructed to flash CM10 then GAPPS and wipe after; did so, boot loop.
Told me that I was supposed to wipe beforehand? Wish I known, still had soft bricks / boot loops.
Kept restoring and re-flashing; came to a point CWM became super slow, kept hanging when trying to restore/wipe.
Then I chose to flash ROM again, this time it kept rebooting/looping into installation process, hang, fail then rebooting to continue this cycle.
Told friend about it, said he'd look at it when he came over; cause my Odin kept crashing for some unknown reason.
He couldn't get it to stop boot looping so he offered to take back home where he said he had all the stuff he had installed on his PC/MAC.
After awhile he said it wouldn't boot anymore, hard brick.
Afterward he returned it to me, I confirmed a hard brick according to what I have searched/researched online.
Plugging into the USB gives me a connection beep but hitting the power button, gives a disconnect beep? So unable to go into download mode.
I have looked around and found a couple of possible solutions: JTAGGING and USB JIGGING
I'm not sure but I kept seeing a lot of testimony that jigging it wouldn't work on a hard brick phone, can anyone confirm this?
Not sure what JTAG is but apparently is the sure-fire way to get the device in working condition again; is this something I can do by myself?
I see the costs range from $50-100 but I'm not sure if I can afford that right now/tight pockets/strapped4cash/whatever as an unemployed student from LIF with other crazy stuff to deal with.
Worst come to worst, I will probably opt for this JTAG thing.
EDIT: I have this QHSUSB_DLOAD shown in the device manager as I connected the dead device; while searching/looking around, someone said it was fixable but it wasn't in the T989 thread so I'm unsure.
Is this really fixable? and if so, what would this exactly permit me to do after?
Any insight as what options I have? I really would like to get this resolved ASAP.
Thank you for reading; I am also located in NYC, if any locals can help.
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Got your phone this morning, an it is already fixed. Restore it to stock rom 4.1.2 everything is ready to go.
Will ship it tomorrow morning.
Thanks choosing my service.

Praise!
tomy1986.nt said:
Got your phone this morning, an it is already fixed. Restore it to stock rom 4.1.2 everything is ready to go.
Will ship it tomorrow morning.
Thanks choosing my service.
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All praise Tomy for his swift and kind work in helping a poor Samaritan. Thoust good deed shant go unnoticed.

How do I prevent these bricks? Just bricked mine and getting it back from JTAG
I'M BATMAN

-DarkKnight- said:
How do I prevent these bricks? Just bricked mine and getting it back from JTAG
I'M BATMAN
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Good morning guys

tomy1986.nt said:
Good morning guys
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How would I prevent my device from getting bricked?
I'M BATMAN

-DarkKnight- said:
How would I prevent my device from getting bricked?
I'M BATMAN
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Do not flash modified Rom. :laugh:

tomy1986.nt said:
Do not flash modified Rom. :laugh:
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What do you mean "modified"
Would I have to compare the md5 or what?
I'M BATMAN

-DarkKnight- said:
How would I prevent my device from getting bricked?
I'M BATMAN
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What do you mean "modified"
Would I have to compare the md5 or what?
I'M BATMAN
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Alway flash phone with Stock rom.

tomy1986.nt said:
Alway flash phone with Stock rom.
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What about custom ROMs like cm10.1 or JediMindTrick?
I'M BATMAN

The note 1 SGH-i717 of Keith_Dallas,TX member has already fixed today give it back only about a hours.

[Q] fastboot doesn't wipe nor flash anything

Hi, I have a problem with my galaxy nexus: one day it began rebooting continuosly as soon as android started. I could not restore it to factory settings since I have no time to reach the menu before it restarts
I decided to wipe it through fastboot but it did not work: I tried many times, the terminal says "OKEY finished" but then the device is just like before, nothing wiped, nothing flashed
I cannot understand what's happening, everything I do seems to be restored to previous state after It reboots
Just one detail one time after rebooting it managed to connect to the internet and on the notification box it appears something that was quite similiar to a spam but I could not read it completely since it rebooted
It was totally stock before the error: neither rooted nor custom rom
thanks for any help!

Hi, i have the same issue here. Yesterday it began rebooting continuously and the factory reset doesn't do anything. It says "data wipe complete" but when i reboot the system it's still my acount and still rebooting.
Any ideas?

Even I'm having the same problem since yesterday. It just started randomly rebooting. Boots up and after around 30 seconds reboots. I was running CM11 - M7. The weirdest part is that even factory resets from recovery isn't wiping anything. Also flashing a new bootloader also didn't work out. The phone is always in the same state when it boots up.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/help/gnex-rebooting-flashed-stock-rom-rom-t2841605
Sorry to bring the bad news guys.
Seems like alot of galaxy nexus are dying like this lately.

DR3W5K1 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/help/gnex-rebooting-flashed-stock-rom-rom-t2841605
Sorry to bring the bad news guys.
Seems like alot of galaxy nexus are dying like this lately.
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Damn. This sucks.:crying:
Thanks for telling me. And you're sure that nothing can be done no?

rohitvarkey said:
Damn. This sucks.:crying:
Thanks for telling me. And you're sure that nothing can be done no?
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No. The only solution is a new board (the NAND is fried and that's soldered on the board..). As said you are not the only one. It sucks though..
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