My at&t Galaxy S3 appears to be hard bricked. I tried using the method of using an .img file to the external SD card, yet now I'm unable to boot using that image.
Previously I was able to boot using the .img file, I did a factory reset, and now I'm stuck.
Are there any options available to me or anything else I can try?
thanks for all your help.
Obsessive said:
My at&t Galaxy S3 appears to be hard bricked. I tried using the method of using an .img file to the external SD card, yet now I'm unable to boot using that image.
Previously I was able to boot using the .img file, I did a factory reset, and now I'm stuck.
Are there any options available to me or anything else I can try?
thanks for all your help.
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You would need to provide more information to let us know what went wrong and what fix to apply. What caused the brick in the first instance? After you booted the first time using the recovery image, did you do a firmware restoration which is the sure fix to getting your phone back in working order? The recovery image only lets you get the phone back into booting mode. Thereafter, you need to work your way up the rest of the food chain via full firmware restoration. If you did a factory reset/wipe without first restoring your firmware, it's possible you may have wiped the recovery image card clean. If that's the case, you would need to create a new image and repeat the process all over.
I bricked my dad's phone a while back. Couldn't get to recovery or anything. Just a blank screen, couldn't tell if it was even on or off. We ended up sending it to a guy on Ebay that has a JTAG and he was able to fix it for us. I think we only paid $25 too. Got it back working within the week.
If you would like the guys name I can find it.
ZS
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I bricked my dad's phone a while back. Couldn't get to recovery or anything. Just a blank screen, couldn't tell if it was even on or off. We ended up sending it to a guy on Ebay that has a JTAG and he was able to fix it for us. I think we only paid $25 too. Got it back working within the week.
If you would like the guys name I can find it.
ZS
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I believe an JTAG will be my only option if the USB jig doesn't work any magic. The only life I get out of my phone when plugged into my computer is the USB driver and if I pull the battery while plugged in the red light shines.
Yep. That is exactly what mine did.
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I got mine unbricked by making a dedrick sd card. I used a 32gb sd and partitioned it and it worked!
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Hello all hoping I can get some help or I'm screwed, I've flashed and tripped the counter so my warranty is void, and I have backups but they're on my computer or external sd card but I've gone and formatted system, cache, date, sd in addition to the regular wipes when flashing a rom I thought it would free me up and bring me back to 0 however it's brought me too far back and I can't install a rom or even restore my backups as the internal sd has been formatted. I'm hoping somebody can please help me with this asap I have the toolkit on my computer and hopefully anything else I'll need please let me know asap, my phone is a SGH-I747M but we knew that due to the forum.
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Hello all hoping I can get some help or I'm screwed, I've flashed and tripped the counter so my warranty is void, and I have backups but they're on my computer or external sd card but I've gone and formatted system, cache, date, sd in addition to the regular wipes when flashing a rom I thought it would free me up and bring me back to 0 however it's brought me too far back and I can't install a rom or even restore my backups as the internal sd has been formatted. I'm hoping somebody can please help me with this asap I have the toolkit on my computer and hopefully anything else I'll need please let me know asap, my phone is a SGH-I747M but we knew that due to the forum.
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You need to put your phone in download mode with volume down + home + power then flash the stock rom with the toolkit... use the appropriate rom, I don't know your carrier, just that you are I747m
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You need to put your phone in download mode with volume down + home + power then flash the stock rom with the toolkit... use the appropriate rom, I don't know your carrier, just that you are I747m
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I thought that would do it, the toolkit does not seem to pick up my phone any longer I thought about using odin not sure if I can do it just like that though. I've actually succeeded in flashing the stock recovery as per the toolkit once but nothing is actually happening my phone just stays at the boot screen. Should I try something else? I'm not sure what to do and I'm just making myself more and more frustrated. It goes to this boot screen now so that's an improvement over just samsung and the boot looping but now it's stuck here not sure what to do. I'm on telus as well fyi.
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I thought that would do it, the toolkit does not seem to pick up my phone any longer I thought about using odin not sure if I can do it just like that though. I've actually succeeded in flashing the stock recovery as per the toolkit once but nothing is actually happening my phone just stays at the boot screen. Should I try something else? I'm not sure what to do and I'm just making myself more and more frustrated. It goes to this boot screen now so that's an improvement over just samsung and the boot looping but now it's stuck here not sure what to do. I'm on telus as well fyi.
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Sounds like you've flashed the stock kernal, now you need to flash the stock ROM, you can use the rooted Telus image with Odin from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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Sounds like you've flashed the stock kernal, now you need to flash the stock ROM, you can use the rooted Telus image with Odin from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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Now I have to lol, it's funny but I just came to that conclusion after my previous post and am downloading the telus rom as we speak, great minds think alike then again I shouldn't of done this in the first place I'm not a total noob. I just wanted to try and get the phone back as close to the day I took it out the box on a custom rom of course lol, but I find that when I do the wipes I still don't have much space on my sd and everything is the same minus the cool rom, I really want to start from scratch just sucks I chose to do this in the middle of making my plans for the night so I'm screwed and some lady out there is gonna be alone lol.
I never make any backups or anything, but everything is there on my external SD to where if something did go wrong, I could fix it with without a computer...
Hey folks,
I was trying to flash a custom kernel (Phenomenal Extreme 4.0) from Clockworkmod on a rooted stock 4.1.2 rom and kernel. I placed the zips on my sd card, then flashed, but it was unsuccessful. Then, when I rebooted from CWM's main menu, the phone went dead. Nothing worked, no buttons, no nothing. Any combination I tried failed, from a simple reboot, to reboot into recovery, to a reboot into download mode. Took battery out, and placed it back in, still nothing.
I'd appreciate any help you can give me! If there's anything like a factory cable, that is still better than nothing. I think I bricked it, and no warranty (Samsung's 3 month is quite short). When I plug the phone in, the laptop responds with a sound but it's not the usual sound when you dock the device. A balloon says that device driver installation failed. Then nothing happens. In any case, I rooted it and there's a flash counter of 1 on it, even if I'm running stock everything. Again, I appreciate any help!
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Hey folks,
I was trying to flash a custom kernel (Phenomenal Extreme 4.0) from Clockworkmod on a rooted stock 4.1.2 rom and kernel. I placed the zips on my sd card, then flashed, but it was unsuccessful. Then, when I rebooted from CWM's main menu, the phone went dead. Nothing worked, no buttons, no nothing. Any combination I tried failed, from a simple reboot, to reboot into recovery, to a reboot into download mode. Took battery out, and placed it back in, still nothing.
I'd appreciate any help you can give me! If there's anything like a factory cable, that is still better than nothing. I think I bricked it, and no warranty (Samsung's 3 month is quite short). When I plug the phone in, the laptop responds with a sound but it's not the usual sound when you dock the device. A balloon says that device driver installation failed. Then nothing happens. In any case, I rooted it and there's a flash counter of 1 on it, even if I'm running stock everything. Again, I appreciate any help!
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What forum did you find that kernel? Hopefully it was made for d2tmo.
+Bound for Valhalla!
I just checked, it wasn't. It's actually made for the international version -- my fault. Oh crap, I'm totally screwed, aren't I? *rolling eyes and a long sigh*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917234 My question is, it failed regardless, and why would it die AFTER I reboot the phone? It should've died right when I tried to install it through CWM.
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I just checked, it wasn't. It's actually made for the international version -- my fault. Oh crap, I'm totally screwed, aren't I? *rolling eyes and a long sigh*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917234 My question is, it failed regardless, and why would it die AFTER I reboot the phone? It should've died right when I tried to install it through CWM.
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Google jtag repair.
That's an expensive paper weight.
|When Emotion Goes Up, Logic Goes Down|
I made a Nandroid before messing around.
Once I do the JTAG repair, can I restore using that Nandroid after re-rooting and flashing CWM? The guy who will be doing the JTAG said that it's dangerous because there's a risk of bricking involved.
I would just restore things individually, personally. I don't know what you had on there, but is there anything that you can't restore some other way ?
That happened to me when i flash wromg kernel. And I had a panic attack...but I somehow manage to go into recovery mod....if you can go into recovery mod...have no fear back up is there lol
Just wipe everything and restore your backup.
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seshaz said:
Send it back
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Hopefully you can get odin to recognise it...
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Hopefully you can get odin to recognise it...
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I had the same problem when I first got my S3. I flashed a file that was for my S2 not realizing and the phone responded the same way or didnt respond at all. Im not saying this will work but you can try. Do the proper button combo to get into download. It wont show anything on your scrren but the phone could still be in download mode. Go ahead and try connecting it to your computer and see if odin will recognize it. Make sure you have your drivers installed and dont forget to push volume up to get all the way into download mode. It worked for me once before and I hope to never have to try it again. If you have already tried this then your out of luck and will have to jtag.
JTAG is no scam. It is a VERY reliable source! Go for it.
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Never mind, warranty exchange. I don't want to send my phone to strangers, even if it's legitimate. Still $45-$60 on the credit card.
I have a question though, as long as the phone is under warranty, I can exchange for a replacement an unlimited number of times, right?
Warranty Exchange!
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Never mind, warranty exchange. I don't want to send my phone to strangers, even if it's legitimate. Still $45-$60 on the credit card.
I have a question though, as long as the phone is under warranty, I can exchange for a replacement an unlimited number of times, right?
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Yes you can...I did it with my S2 until I got one that did'nt have any signs of being refurbished. It looked brand new! I have even told them that something was wrong with the phone (hardware issue) when there was nothing wrong just because the one year warranty was about to run out and it had a few cosmedic blemishes..I have given them a lot of money in the past 9 years so I do'nt feel too bad... I did it with my Vibrant as well.
I've done my fair share of searching and I couldn't come up with much so I strongly believe I have a unique problem. I hope someone can point me in the right direction
Im have a rooted GS3 747 running Paranoid Android. A couple days ago the phone wouldn't charge. I tried different cables and batteries and after some testing with other GS3's I realized that my phone's charging port was broken. As a result I couldn't even connect my phone to the computer to unroot it with odin. I want to unroot so I can send in the phone for repair under warranty. So I downloaded mobile odin pro and proceeded to unroot my phone. I copied the original rogers rom to the external sd, followed the instructions and started the process. Everything looked like it was going fine until I got stuck on the samsung screen. Did some more research and learned that I had to do a factory data restart by booting into recovery mode. Did that. By now I'm feeling pretty good about all this. I followed the instructions all the way and I'm thinking that I'm gonna get a stock phone shortly. Wrong! The phone was still stuck on the samsung screen.
Now since I cant connect my phone to the PC cuz the charging port is broken I dont know what to do. I would have just flashed Clockwork Mod like I did when I first rooted and started all over but I cant.
If no one has a solution then Im just thinking of sending it in as is. Maybe they wont be able to see that the phone is rooted since they wont be able to connect it their PC without swapping out the motherboard to fix the problem.
I should add that I went to a repair store to try and fix it and they told me that the only way would be swap out your mobo.
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I've done my fair share of searching and I couldn't come up with much so I strongly believe I have a unique problem. I hope someone can point me in the right direction
Im have a rooted GS3 747 running Paranoid Android. A couple days ago the phone wouldn't charge. I tried different cables and batteries and after some testing with other GS3's I realized that my phone's charging port was broken. As a result I couldn't even connect my phone to the computer to unroot it with odin. I want to unroot so I can send in the phone for repair under warranty. So I downloaded mobile odin pro and proceeded to unroot my phone. I copied the original rogers rom to the external sd, followed the instructions and started the process. Everything looked like it was going fine until I got stuck on the samsung screen. Did some more research and learned that I had to do a factory data restart by booting into recovery mode. Did that. By now I'm feeling pretty good about all this. I followed the instructions all the way and I'm thinking that I'm gonna get a stock phone shortly. Wrong! The phone was still stuck on the samsung screen.
Now since I cant connect my phone to the PC cuz the charging port is broken I dont know what to do. I would have just flashed Clockwork Mod like I did when I first rooted and started all over but I cant.
If no one has a solution then Im just thinking of sending it in as is. Maybe they wont be able to see that the phone is rooted since they wont be able to connect it their PC without swapping out the motherboard to fix the problem.
I should add that I went to a repair store to try and fix it and they told me that the only way would be swap out your mobo.
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You will want to be sure that your flash counter says 0. This can be found by entering download mode (vol down, home, power) and you will see "custom binary count". that is how they will tell that you have rooted. Have you entered recovery and done a factory reset to get past the boot screen? If you can full wipe/ factory reset and get back into Android, I recommend you use "triangle away" app to clear your flash counter.
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You will want to be sure that your flash counter says 0. This can be found by entering download mode (vol down, home, power) and you will see "custom binary count". that is how they will tell that you have rooted. Have you entered recovery and done a factory reset to get past the boot screen? If you can full wipe/ factory reset and get back into Android, I recommend you use "triangle away" app to clear your flash counter.
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I entered download mode and dont see flash counter anywhere. I got the warning screen were you have the option to restart or download.
Ya I entered recovery and did a factory reset but nothing. Really cant do anything with charging port broken.
I sent it in anyways for repairs. Hopefully they just replace it
I'm having the same problem with my Gs3 with CM10 4.2.2 running. Thought this would help.
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I tried downloading files in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2788357 and attempted to flash both the modem and stock ROM using TWRP. The modem flashed successfully but the ROM failed, so I restored to a Nandroid backup I made on CM M6.
I immediately received a message telling me to insert my SIM card. Thinking this was a weird error, I tried to reboot into Recovery and restore again. Only this time my phone did nothing. It's not turning on when it's off and plugged into a power source, it's not turning on in Download mode, it's not booting into recovery, nothing.
I don't know how to fix this without resorting to a JTAG recovery method and was wondering if anyone might have any ideas on how to help me since I don't feel like taking this thing apart.
I know this may be a long shot, but I've seen it work numerous times. Have you tried removing the battery and leaving it out for a longer time than a few minutes? Worth a shot while waiting for more pro user answers.
Do you have access to a USB jig? I'm not sure that it will work in your case but it's cheaper than using a jtag service.
mine just bricked for the same reason. same symptoms and everything... ugh
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I tried downloading files in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2788357 and attempted to flash both the modem and stock ROM using TWRP. The modem flashed successfully but the ROM failed, so I restored to a Nandroid backup I made on CM M6.
I immediately received a message telling me to insert my SIM card. Thinking this was a weird error, I tried to reboot into Recovery and restore again. Only this time my phone did nothing. It's not turning on when it's off and plugged into a power source, it's not turning on in Download mode, it's not booting into recovery, nothing.
I don't know how to fix this without resorting to a JTAG recovery method and was wondering if anyone might have any ideas on how to help me since I don't feel like taking this thing apart.
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The thread posted by Enewman does contain a 4.4. debrick image for the i747. Have you tried writing this image to a (micro) SD card and booting from the card? If this works, you could try firmware restoration after booting from the card. If it doesn't work, then you could try the 4.3 debrick image from the link below. With luck, this could still work since the firmware flashing failed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068
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The thread posted by Enewman does contain a 4.4. debrick image for the i747. Have you tried writing this image to a (micro) SD card and booting from the card? If this works, you could try firmware restoration after booting from the card. If it doesn't work, then you could try the 4.3 debrick image from the link below. With luck, this could still work since the firmware flashing failed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068
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how do you get the phone to turn on if it's bricked? sorry in all of my years of using android i've never bricked.
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Jakeuten said:
how do you get the phone to turn on if it's bricked? sorry in all of my years of using android i've never bricked.
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If you get a sign of life outta your phone, it's "soft-brick". Otherwise, no sign of life (at all) = "hard-bricked" and a jtag is needed to push the bootloaders back into it.
A jig quite often boots the device in download mode even when people think they hard-bricked (often a miss-interpretation). And if there's a sign of life, it's easily recoverable!
As for turning on while bricked, you need intact bootloaders to boot from.
FYI
Flashing the 4.4.2 modem on 4.3 firmware will hard brick the device. To check for sure, plug into a pc and check in device manager. If it says QHSUSB_DLOAD, you are hard bricked. The debrick.img is posted in enewman's thread, but if you guys need the other firmware files for the 2 sdcard method let me know and ill post them for you.
Ive also posted a script in the debrick thread someone can flash to create a new debrick.img in case the current one doesn't work, and if any I747M users want to be proactive and create one for each of their variants.
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Flashing the 4.4.2 modem on 4.3 firmware will hard brick the device. To check for sure, plug into a pc and check in device manager. If it says QHSUSB_DLOAD, you are hard bricked. The debrick.img is posted in enewman's thread, but if you guys need the other firmware files for the 2 sdcard method let me know and ill post them for you.
Ive also posted a script in the debrick thread someone can flash to create a new debrick.img in case the current one doesn't work, and if any I747M users want to be proactive and create one for each of their variants.
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Thanks for your reply. I was able to flash the modem and update from enewman's thread last night and it booted up once but had no cellular so I turned it off and it was hard bricked
I have DL'd the debrick file an put it on a 16BG card but it will not boot at all, I have tried many times.
Is there anything else that I can do? / If by some chance I get it into DL mode what would my next step be?
I know that the system is on 4.4.2 since I saw it booted up so I don't want to flash 4.3 on it.
Thanks
Ill be posting more info in the debrick thread shortly. Make sure you check there. Also post there for anything else you need while trying to fix this. That way everything is in one thread and it makes it a lot easier for others to assist you.
Hi there. My fire TV is rooted and has the following installed:
clockwork mod custom recovery
51.1.4.0_514006420 updated 10/30/2014 Custom rom
I was initially experiencing strange behaviour with my external hard drive converting to a read only drive after a while for no apparent reason so decided to do a factory restore
I tried to factory restore the device but for some reason after the factory restore and watching the funny cartoon on set up the device said I only had 2.5gb of hard drive space left of the 5.5 gb available so I decided to try formatting the data on the clockwork mod restore but it still didn't work so I then formatted the sd but as soon as I did this I thought that can't be right as surely the recovery image is on that but it was too late. After it rebooted the fire TV no longer works. It just hangs on the White amazon logo. I've tried the "ALT-PRNT SCREEN-I" option to try get it to restore but with no luck, it just constantly stays on the White amazon logo so I'm kinda thinking I've totally wiped the fire TV and have therefore bricked it. It does respond to "control-alt-delete" but that just reboots the device.
Can anyone advise if this is indeed the case so I don't waste any of my time trying to fix this. I can't return the product as I purchased it on a recent holiday to usa and I'm from uk so a bit gutted.
Many thanks in advance
Paul1672
Sounds like you wiped your /system. If so, then yes you are soft bricked.
I have soft bricked this unit before and managed to restore it but that was before I installed the clockwork mod and custom rom.
If it is soft bricked surely I would be able to restore it still? I have tried several times to get it to return to the clockwork mod restore using the "ALT-PRINTSCREEN-i" method but all I get is the constant white Amazon logo. It feels like I've totally wiped the entire system including all sign of clockwork mod
Can anyone advise if I have indeed totally messed it up or is there any hope for me?
Paul
Anybody got any advice or opinion be it good or bad?
Before I bin the unit
Paul
Paul1672 said:
Anybody got any advice or opinion be it good or bad?
Before I bin the unit
Paul
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Yes, I have some advice. Don't do that crap again. Be smart. And I'm a bit curious, you talk about an external harddrive and you then talk about wiping the SD card. You mean the /sdcard directory in the AFTV? Seriously? If that is the case, I have some better advice for you. Don't tinker with stuff you don't understand.
So I can assume from your reply I have indeed wiped the entire system and there is in fact no way to repair/restore the device? Totally agree with all you said and I did realise my error literally as soon as I did it a harsh lesson learnt I think and believe me it's not one I will be repeating.
Was just hoping I may be lucky and find someone who has a way of solving my issue but it appears not
Paul
Hi
What's your suggestion or advice be to resolve the problem that was presented.
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Yes, I have some advice. Don't do that crap again. Be smart. And I'm a bit curious, you talk about an external harddrive and you then talk about wiping the SD card. You mean the /sdcard directory in the AFTV? Seriously? If that is the case, I have some better advice for you. Don't tinker with stuff you don't understand.
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So I can assume from your reply I have indeed wiped the entire system and there is in fact no way to repair/restore the device? Totally agree with all you said and I did realise my error literally as soon as I did it a harsh lesson learnt I think and believe me it's not one I will be repeating.
Was just hoping I may be lucky and find someone who has a way of solving my issue but it appears not
Paul
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Naw, you didn't brick you device. Sorry, was in some sort of mood when posted.
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-unbr...ry-mode-and-factory-reset-the-amazon-fire-tv/
That link gives information. You need to get into recovery mode and a factory restore. If the factory restore doesn't work, then just use the same firmware you had before you deleted the stuff. You can put any firmware on a usb stick and read it from that.
Most of this has been covered in the various threads, I suggest you browse thru them, lots of good stuff.
good luck, and sorry I didn't include this in my last post, i should of.
Are u sure mate? I've tried the Alt-prntscreen-I method without any success. The fire tv won't boot into the clockwork mod recovery at all and I'm wondering if I've formatted it somehow. I guess until I get into the restore screen I can't do a thing I did have clockwork mod installed and a custom rom, wud that make a difference as I did indeed format the fire tv sd partition.
Appreciate your help
Paul
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Are u sure mate? I've tried the Alt-prntscreen-I method without any success. The fire tv won't boot into the clockwork mod recovery at all and I'm wondering if I've formatted it somehow. I guess until I get into the restore screen I can't do a thing I did have clockwork mod installed and a custom rom, wud that make a difference as I did indeed format the fire tv sd partition.
Appreciate your help
Paul
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You should be able to get to a recovery screen from what you did, I would think, unless maybe if you deleted everything from the root directory, not the sdcard directory. I am not an expert on that though. It's our thanksgiving holiday here in the states, so the peeps that know might not be around.
Sorry I can't be more helpful then that.
You copy your recovery.img to the sdcard only as an interim step for flashing. It then gets stored in a separate partition that CWM won't wipe. If you have done the changes you mention from CWM, then CWM is still present on the device. I had to get in to my system with the alt-prtscreen-I method as well, and it took a few tries, spamming the keeps after unplugging and replugging the device. Also if you are using a k400 or some other keyboard with a FN key you may have to push that as well to make sure it gets the proper key sequence. I'm fairly confident your device is only softbricked and can be recovered. you may need to adb sideload or copy a zip to usb to load the firmware, but it should be doable.
well, I've tried constantly rebooting and pressing alt-printscreen-I simultaneously for the last half hour with no luck wotsoever all I get is the constant white amazon logo. in fact, the logo appears as soon as I connect the power lead and just hangs there until I either remove the lead or press control-alt-delete at which point the device reboots.
something tells me I've done something a lot more serious than just wipe the sd partition but I'm a little surprised if clockwork mod would allow it.
kinda giving up now as I have soft bricked the device before but that was before I installed clockwork mod and it went to factory restore just fine doing the alt-printscreen-i method that time.
thanks for all the advice guys. I really do appreciate any help I have had. I'm willing to try anything to try get this unit to work. the way I see it, I have nothing to lose right now. just seems strange the unit no longer shows any sign of changing from the constant white amazon logo. there's definitely no sign of the colourful amazon logo that usually appears at some point during the boot process which kinda gives me the impression I've somehow completely wiped the whole system.
is that even possible guys?
If you are saying that ctrl-alt-del reboots your box then the alt -sysrq-i should get you to recovery. Try using a wired keyboard and maybe a different keyboard than you have been using.
Ive tried a wired keyboard and now when I press ALT-PRNTSCREEN-i the fire tv just reboots. I've followed the guide that is in a previous reply which I have been able to do on a previous unrelated soft brick I managed but this time each time I do the ALT-PRINTSCREEN-i combo it just reboots and nothing else. Just a white AMAZON logo. I have done the method like 5 times and still no joy
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Ive tried a wired keyboard and now when I press ALT-PRNTSCREEN-i the fire tv just reboots. I've followed the guide that is in a previous reply which I have been able to do on a previous unrelated soft brick I managed but this time each time I do the ALT-PRINTSCREEN-i combo it just reboots and nothing else. Just a white AMAZON logo. I have done the method like 5 times and still no joy
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Call Amazon and play stupid saying it just hangs at the logo, I did that once and they send me a replacement free of charge.
Wish I could but i purchased it whilst on holiday in Florida and I'm from the uk
Anybody got any more advice? It seems really strange that I can't get the factory reset to work. Still stuck on the White Amazon logo which boots instantly as soon s I power the device. I've managed to get the device to power cycle using ALT-PRNTSCREEN-i method bit it's does it going on 20 times with absolutely no sign of the failed update screen so it looks like the device just doesn't have anything on it. Is it possible I've somehow completely wiped the clockwork mod recovery? And if I have shud the device revert back to factory restore or may I of wiped that too?
Paul1672 said:
Anybody got any more advice? It seems really strange that I can't get the factory reset to work. Still stuck on the White Amazon logo which boots instantly as soon s I power the device. I've managed to get the device to power cycle using ALT-PRNTSCREEN-i method bit it's does it going on 20 times with absolutely no sign of the failed update screen so it looks like the device just doesn't have anything on it. Is it possible I've somehow completely wiped the clockwork mod recovery? And if I have shud the device revert back to factory restore or may I of wiped that too?
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no its not possible that you wiped recovery from what you did in cwm.. its located on a different partition, if you cant connect via ADB or cant get recovery to load your out of luck.. so did you install the newest prerooted rom? what about the boot menu?
I had the following pre-rooted rom installed:
51.1.4.0_514006420 updated
Sounds like I've messed it up then
Paul1672 said:
I had the following pre-rooted rom installed:
51.1.4.0_514006420 updated
Sounds like I've messed it up then
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no need for the boot menu on that update iirc. i think you need to just keep trying to get to recovery, i think its still there.. the key command is just not registering.. keep trying i guess.