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[Q] Phone does not boot, red light flashes, is it hard bricked?

Hi,
I woke up to find my note2 stuck on the samsung logo, so i went to the recovery menu and cleared the cache. When I went to restart the phone, it wont start up.
1) Nothing appears on the phone
2) When i press the power button, the red light on top flashes but thats it
3) it doesnt go to recovery mode with the power, vol+
4) it doesnt go to download mode with the power, vol-
5) Battery should be fully charged, when plug into the phone and the wall, nothing happens even when i left it there for half a day.
6) Switched out with friends battery and nothing happens as well.
7) Plug into PC Mac, multiple computers, nothing happens on the phone or computer. Nothing is detected on that usb port.
Anyone know what I can do to try and fix this before I send it to a repair shop?
Thanks

I think u r missing HOME button to press while going recovery or download

jdomadia said:
I think u r missing HOME button to press while going recovery or download
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Just tried both with home button pressed. Same thing, nothing happens but the red light flashes.
Thanks

Which firmware version was there?

jdomadia said:
Which firmware version was there?
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Sorry man, I have no idea. I rooted the phone when i first got it and i haven't change/update anything since then. Got the phone around December 2012 in Hong Kong.

lilming263 said:
Sorry man, I have no idea. I rooted the phone when i first got it and i haven't change/update anything since then. Got the phone around December 2012 in Hong Kong.
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In switched off condition, if it takes charge then it must be go to DOWNLOAD MODE (home+power+vol.down). Then restock through odin or use 'mskip toolkit'
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lilming263 said:
Hi,
I woke up to find my note2 stuck on the samsung logo, so i went to the recovery menu and cleared the cache. When I went to restart the phone, it wont start up.
1) Nothing appears on the phone
2) When i press the power button, the red light on top flashes but thats it
3) it doesnt go to recovery mode with the power, vol+
4) it doesnt go to download mode with the power, vol-
5) Battery should be fully charged, when plug into the phone and the wall, nothing happens even when i left it there for half a day.
6) Switched out with friends battery and nothing happens as well.
7) Plug into PC Mac, multiple computers, nothing happens on the phone or computer. Nothing is detected on that usb port.
Anyone know what I can do to try and fix this before I send it to a repair shop?
Thanks
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few days it happened to my phone also, follow thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351472
Good luck.

nitol said:
In switched off condition, if it takes charge then it must be go to DOWNLOAD MODE (home+power+vol.down). Then restock through odin or use 'mskip toolkit'
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The phone does not respond while the charger is pluged in and cannot go to Download mode.
apachiee_pk said:
few days it happened to my phone also, follow thread,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351472
Good luck.
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Thanks, Looks like I'll have to send it in.

[Q] hardbrick?

hey,
i was flashing a new Rom yesterday. everything was going smooth and when i was wiping the cache , the phone gets frozen and i had to unplug the battery .
now it doesnt boot anymore. ( not even in recovery or download) when i try to boot my phone everything what happens is that the approximate sensor flashes 1 time but the screen stays black.
my question now :
is this a sign for a hardbrick ?
will a USB jig helps me?
or does anyone have a tipp how to boot my phone into download or recovery ?

If you could explain more,which rom you installed in which step you were??? plug the phone to pc for any response??
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NewComer1234 said:
hey,
i was flashing a new Rom yesterday. everything was going smooth and when i was wiping the cache , the phone gets frozen and i had to unplug the battery .
now it doesnt boot anymore. ( not even in recovery or download) when i try to boot my phone everything what happens is that the approximate sensor flashes 1 time but the screen stays black.
my question now :
is this a sign for a hardbrick ?
will a USB jig helps me?
or does anyone have a tipp how to boot my phone into download or recovery ?
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well this cannot result to a hard brick rather a soft brick have u tried vol down+power+menu or try power on when it start booting kepp vol down and menu pressed.
see if it takes you to download mode

NewComer1234 said:
hey,
i was flashing a new Rom yesterday. everything was going smooth and when i was wiping the cache , the phone gets frozen and i had to unplug the battery .
now it doesnt boot anymore. ( not even in recovery or download) when i try to boot my phone everything what happens is that the approximate sensor flashes 1 time but the screen stays black.
my question now :
is this a sign for a hardbrick ?
will a USB jig helps me?
or does anyone have a tipp how to boot my phone into download or recovery ?
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if all fails just order a USB jig around 2 - 3 pounds had always forced my phones into download mode
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wada7o said:
If you could explain more,which rom you installed in which step you were??? plug the phone to pc for any response??
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i was installing the liquidsmooth rom v2.9 and all was fine. the problem came by wiping the cache. if i plug my phone to the pc there is no reaction.
shhbz said:
well this cannot result to a hard brick rather a soft brick have u tried vol down+power+menu or try power on when it start booting kepp vol down and menu pressed.
see if it takes you to download mode
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already tried this. nothing happens when i do this. screen stays black.
dead soul said:
if all fails just order a USB jig around 2 - 3 pounds had always forced my phones into download mode
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already used my usb jig a day ago. no reaction . screen stays black.
i think nothing works . i will send it to samsung tomorrow.

Ive seen this happen a few times and every time it was the wrong version of the rom being installed. For example, trying to install a international rom on a US phone. The phone had to be sent in for repair or exchange each time.

Try following Max's instruction on how to root or unbrick galaxy note 2 in YouTube.
His channel is galaxynote2root
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brick after antutu running in overclock

hi, today running antutu benchmack after a cpu and gpu overclock using epsilon project with viper kernel the phone suddenly turned off and now don't turn on. If i connect it to pc the screen turn on and appear the battery animation. After this the screen shutdown and the red led stuck flashing. the phone also enter in download mode, but i can't flash the firmware with kdz.
If i connect the phone to the wall charger the red led start flashing.
Have i burned something? The phone is dead or is there any solution?
thanks in advance.

ermoto said:
hi, today running antutu benchmack after a cpu and gpu overclock using epsilon project with viper kernel the phone suddenly turned off and now don't turn on. If i connect it to pc the screen turn on and appear the battery animation. After this the screen shutdown and the red led stuck flashing. the phone also enter in download mode, but i can't flash the firmware with kdz.
If i connect the phone to the wall charger the red led start flashing.
Have i burned something? The phone is dead or is there any solution?
thanks in advance.
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keep pressing power for extended time so it will shutdown proper, leave it as it for 10 mins or so.
plug in wall charger and if you get battery animation let it charge to 100
after that try kdz, if it still gives you error and you are sure you dont have drivers issue, than yes somethings wrong.

atifsh said:
keep pressing power for extended time so it will shutdown proper, leave it as it for 10 mins or so.
plug in wall charger and if you get battery animation let it charge to 100
after that try kdz, if it still gives you error and you are sure you dont have drivers issue, than yes somethings wrong.
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i have succeeded in flashing the rom, but after this the phone enter in bootloop. The bootloop stops when I disconnect the cable from the pc, but the phone stay off whatever key I press. It only enter in download mode. If I connect the phone to the pc appear the lg logo and restart bootloop.
I think that the phone is definitely dead.:crying::crying::crying:

ermoto said:
i have succeeded in flashing the rom, but after this the phone enter in bootloop. The bootloop stops when I disconnect the cable from the pc, but the phone stay off whatever key I press. It only enter in download mode. If I connect the phone to the pc appear the lg logo and restart bootloop.
I think that the phone is definitely dead.:crying::crying::crying:
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did you wiped after flashing kdz?
is your phone actually charged enough to boot?

atifsh said:
did you wiped after flashing kdz?
is your phone actually charged enough to boot?
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No I didn't wipe. Can you explain me how can i do to wipe from download mode?
I don't know if the phone is charge, i've leave it allnight under charge.
Thanks for the reply
Inviato dal mio Desire HD utilizzando Tapatalk

power off phone. pres vol down+power...a menu to reset will appear. pres power and that's it. a hard reset will be made. you will lose all files.

kimitza said:
power off phone. pres vol down+power...a menu to reset will appear. pres power and that's it. a hard reset will be made. you will lose all files.
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i can't do anything. I'm only able to enter in download mode. :crying:
Is there some method to recover data from internal memory in download mode? adb devices command don't see any devices connected

http://www.chip.de/downloads/Universal-ADB-Treiber_61437026.html
install adb driver!

The phone is resurrected. I just disconnected and reconnected the battery.
Thanks to all
Inviato dal mio LG-E975 utilizzando Tapatalk

I have faced a weird problem with antutu. During the test, my phone reboots, then got stuck in bootanimation. After turning it off, then restarting it, it is fine. So it is antutu problem.

HTC won't boot

I tried to root my HTC Desire 820. While rooting it with supersu i checked reboot system instead of wipe cache/delvik (which is probably why it wasn't detected as rooted). I noticed it, so I went back in, and while choosing .zip directory i went away for ~5mins and now my phone doesn't boot (LED doesn't blink either); battery is well over 80% and charging. What should I do?

savagecheeze said:
I tried to root my HTC Desire 820. While rooting it with supersu i checked reboot system instead of wipe cache/delvik (which is probably why it wasn't detected as rooted). I noticed it, so I went back in, and while choosing .zip directory i went away for ~5mins and now my phone doesn't boot (LED doesn't blink either); battery is well over 80% and charging. What should I do?
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Reboot a couple more times, or is that blank screen caused by the TWRP screen saver?

iXaidyiu said:
Reboot a couple more times, or is that blank screen caused by the TWRP screen saver?
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Well if I had to guess I'd say it's a screensaver because I didn't really press anything; I can't access it in anyway, unless there is a special type of button combination?

savagecheeze said:
Well if I had to guess I'd say it's a screensaver because I didn't really press anything; I can't access it in anyway, unless there is a special type of button combination?
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Try holding power and VOL+ together for some times. It should then bring up the HTC boot screen. Then the device should start boot normally again.
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iXaidyiu said:
Try holding power and VOL+ together for some times. It should then bring up the HTC boot screen. Then the device should start boot normally again.
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So I guess Volume down doesn't work that way? I tried pressing vol- and power but it didn't work, haven't thought about vol+. Thanks a lot for saving my ass.

savagecheeze said:
So I guess Volume down doesn't work that way? I tried pressing vol- and power but it didn't work, haven't thought about vol+. Thanks a lot for saving my ass.
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You are welcomed?.
For most of the Android device that has a non-removable battery (not by screws), VOL+ and Power button is a universal trick to force reboot/shutdown your device.
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i have question if im tired of this save screen becouse ii failed root phone, how to fix this? i can't enter on recovery mode its annoying...

Black screen FIRMWARE UPDATE

I cleaned my phone from water i dried it up after half an hour I kept my pixel 2 xl on charging, it was locked after 5 mins when i looked at my phone..
The screen was black (may be in recovery mode not sure) qon the top its written firmware updating press power button 8 time to reboot your deviceq. Do not unplug your usb blah blah and below was status bar showing 0%
I unplug the cable and device restarted i dint pressed any button
Any one experienced the same or any one knows what it is ?

If you try to power the thing off and back on and it says that it is probably damaged the board. Unless maybe you had flash a ROM of some sort before. But it sounds like you have stock firmware. Even if it did enter recovery or stock recovery you should be able to hard reset it to get it to boot into the ROM

Think that's download mode if you shut the phone off and hold Volume down and plug a data cable in it t will boot in to download mode. like other LG phones. I found it on this phones by mistake once.
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666syco said:
Think that's download mode if you shut the phone off and hold Volume down and plug a data cable in it will boot in to download mode. like other LG phones. I found it on this phones by mistake once.
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Thanks that what it is.

Are there any tools we could use to flash firmware in this mode?