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Hi there! First of all I don't speak english very well.
My Galaxy Nexus hard bricked yesterday.
tl;dr no boot animation, no recovery mode, no download mode, no response from computer.
I thought it had just a low battery level, I found it turned off. So I tried to recharge it but it gave no signals, no battery icon, nothing.
After an all night long recharge I tried to turn it on, to enter in download mode or in recovery mode but nothing works. I also tried to connect it with my computer with and without battery, no response, no "OMAP" device found, no sound from Windows for plugging it in, nothing.
I found this thread here in xda, many people has been redirected to it and found their solution to the brick problem.
I tried to follow all the steps but when I plug in the phone and start the .bat file nothing happens, just stuck on "Waiting for device".
The phone is unlocked and rooted. I'm running AOKP JB-MR1 Build 2 and Franco Kernel for a month, never had problems with them, never installed other ROMs after that.
What should I do now? Should I try to do something or just bring it to a support center? The phone is still in warranty, there would be any problem because it has a non-stock ROM?
I've red about a jig to force the Odin mode, should I buy it? (I found this one)
Thanks for the help.
Have you tried booting into Odin mode
ntb81 said:
Have you tried booting into Odin mode
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Yes, it doesn't work.
have you your warranty on it?
return it and get a new one
It's hard bricked and a JTAG unit may force it into download mode, if you send it in for warranty, chances are it won't be accepted as it was obviously tampered with and they would find out that your bootloader is unlocked and charge you more money than the device is actually worth to fix it.
I don't understand how it could of bricked if nothing has changed on the phone for a month or longer. Nothing was flashed recently so how can you hard brick the phone?
Beauenheim said:
It's hard bricked and a JTAG unit may force it into download mode, if you send it in for warranty, chances are it won't be accepted as it was obviously tampered with and they would find out that your bootloader is unlocked and charge you more money than the device is actually worth to fix it.
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Yeah, that's why I'm not sure to send it in for warranty. So have I to try with a JTAG first?
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I don't understand how it could of bricked if nothing has changed on the phone for a month or longer. Nothing was flashed recently so how can you hard brick the phone?
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I'm not understanding that too, I don't know what happened. Suddendly it stopped working. Maybe is just a battery problem, I'll try to use another one before bringing it to the shop where I bought it.
same happened to me, but I have an untouched phone with stock android. it worked well for over an year until today.
I see a lot of people having same issue, but they say that when connected to PC over USB the phone is recognized as OMAP.
for me the PC doesn't do anything...
any help? thanks
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galiganu said:
same happened to me, but I have an untouched phone with stock android. it worked well for over an year until today.
I see a lot of people having same issue, but they say that when connected to PC over USB the phone is recognized as OMAP.
for me the PC doesn't do anything...
any help? thanks
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so right after I wrote that I plugged my phone into USB of my PC without battery. when I inserted the battery it started showing me the battery sign and I could started the phone. 3 minutes later it went black again, but the trick didnt work again.
any ideas? thanks
Try This !!
Arrange a 4 ohm resistor and try to attach it in ur usb plug port of phone ..it 'll force the phon eto go in download mode or say Fastboot mode.
then follow a tutorial to flash any rom..
its quite easy else ping me !!
Tech.Nik said:
Arrange a 4 ohm resistor and try to attach it in ur usb plug port of phone ..it 'll force the phon eto go in download mode or say Fastboot mode.
then follow a tutorial to flash any rom..
its quite easy else ping me !!
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Please could you explain a bit more how to go about this? I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus in a somewhat similar condition. This one is recognised as an OMAP 4430 device. I downloaded OMAP Flasher, installed drivers and tried to bring it back to life but after running the batch file I get this error: Operation FAILED (Remote: : Driver init error 0x00FF8080 - MMC CONFIG FAILURE). Can the resistor trick work on this and if yes, how can I go about it? I am not faint-hearted; I think I can handle it if given the right instructions.
After I tried everything i could from the internet, I went to a shop and tested to see if the USB is broken - and indeed it was. I replaced the USB component of the phone and after that it started.
Thanks guys
galiganu said:
After I tried everything i could from the internet, I went to a shop and tested to see if the USB is broken - and indeed it was. I replaced the USB component of the phone and after that it started.
Thanks guys
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Yeah, the faulty USB port is a very common issue.
So today I tried flashing android 5.0 on my T-mobile LG G3 D851. I put it into download mode, started the flash and waited. My LG flash tool then crashed and closed. My phone was %6 through the installation however and was just left frozen after it crashed. I tried every way possible to restart it and get out of the screen while keeping it plugged in, but I couldn't...so I took out the battery and put it back in. Now nothing is turning on, I can't put it in download mode and the charging LED doesn't light up, etc. It's completely bricked....what do I do? I've already tried taking out the battery and waiting and plugging in the cord and then battery. Please help! I can't afford the insurance or another phone...
EDIT: Also the battery does have charge...although I don't know how long it will last.
EDIT 2: I just realized this flash was for the 855 variant..not 851. Does this mean that I am just screwed?
It means that you got expensive brick.
You cant enter into download mode or recovery?
Probably only help is jtag. Find someone who can do that.
Sounds like someone has learned a very expensive lesson! Have you tried to factory reset it?
Yeah JTAG is all you got if no download mode
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joshmccoyy said:
So today I tried flashing android 5.0 on my T-mobile LG G3 D851. I put it into download mode, started the flash and waited. My LG flash tool then crashed and closed. My phone was %6 through the installation however and was just left frozen after it crashed. I tried every way possible to restart it and get out of the screen while keeping it plugged in, but I couldn't...so I took out the battery and put it back in. Now nothing is turning on, I can't put it in download mode and the charging LED doesn't light up, etc. It's completely bricked....what do I do? I've already tried taking out the battery and waiting and plugging in the cord and then battery. Please help! I can't afford the insurance or another phone...
EDIT: Also the battery does have charge...although I don't know how long it will last.
EDIT 2: I just realized this flash was for the 855 variant..not 851. Does this mean that I am just screwed?
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Did you manage to unbrick your G3?
Neurom707 said:
Yeah JTAG is all you got if no download mode
Sent from my LG-D855 using XDA Free mobile app
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Not necessarily. This might work in his situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
itsbighead said:
Not necessarily. This might work in his situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
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The linked solution works only if the device shows some signs of life - atleast a boot logo.
i have a D851 that a friend bricked. She tried upgrading to Lollipop and flashed the AT&T baseband on this TMobile version. The result is a hard bricked device which does not even seem to power on. Shows no signs of life, except when connected to a windows pc. It shows up as 'LG Androidnet USB modem' in the device manager. No boot logo, recovery, or download mode. Fortunately she has IMEI and twrp backups for this phone (boot, efs1, efs2, radio, rpm, tz). I did some research on JTag solutions. Unfortunately, none of the boxes support the D851, yet.
Any ideas on how to recover this device would be greatly appreciated.
majesticpark said:
The linked solution works only if the device shows some signs of life - atleast a boot logo.
i have a D851 that a friend bricked. She tried upgrading to Lollipop and flashed the AT&T baseband on this TMobile version. The result is a hard bricked device which does not even seem to power on. Shows no signs of life, except when connected to a windows pc. It shows up as 'LG Androidnet USB modem' in the device manager. No boot logo, recovery, or download mode. Fortunately she has IMEI and twrp backups for this phone (boot, efs1, efs2, radio, rpm, tz). I did some research on JTag solutions. Unfortunately, none of the boxes support the D851, yet.
Any ideas on how to recover this device would be greatly appreciated.
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If OP at least get QHUSB_BULK when he plugs it in it's better that he tries it
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itsbighead said:
If OP at least get QHUSB_BULK when he plugs it in it's better that he tries it
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Nope. Only LG Androidnet USB modem'
While I was using SM-N910P 5.1.1 N910PVPU4COG5_Deodexed Rom, I changed SecContacts_Note_USA.apk file and it turned into Hard Brick.
It's a typical Hard Brick Hard Brick symptom in which nothing shows up on a screen even I pressed a power button and there is no vibration on the phone.
If I connect it to a computer, QHSUSB_BULK pops up.
After I setup a driver, it connects to Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008.
As I was searching for some information, I could find a solution for Note3 Hard Brick.
However,I do not have unbric.img file as it says on the solution.
I need unbric.img file.
Help Me
Can you get into download mode? Vol down+home+power. Seems odd that just changing that apk would brick your device, trust me I swap files in and out all the time but never had that issue.
Could be your battery is dead too
Rom issues
bcxv said:
While I was using SM-N910P 5.1.1 N910PVPU4COG5_Deodexed Rom, I changed SecContacts_Note_USA.apk file and it turned into Hard Brick.
It's a typical Hard Brick Hard Brick symptom in which nothing shows up on a screen even I pressed a power button and there is no vibration on the phone.
If I connect it to a computer, QHSUSB_BULK pops up.
After I setup a driver, it connects to Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008.
As I was searching for some information, I could find a solution for Note3 Hard Brick.
However,I do not have unbric.img file as it says on the solution.
I need unbric.img file.
Help Me
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Just install the ROM again it wont change anything besides having to reinstall xposed if you use that, or audio mods like viper.
ianmb said:
Can you get into download mode? Vol down+home+power. Seems odd that just changing that apk would brick your device, trust me I swap files in and out all the time but never had that issue.
Could be your battery is dead too
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Impossible
battery full
Iceburn1 said:
Just install the ROM again it wont change anything besides having to reinstall xposed if you use that, or audio mods like viper.
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recovery mode, download mode Impossible
Ok, for one thing, changing that file will not hard brick your phone.
You either did something else to cause this issue or your battery is drained or kaput... It's not unheard of around here.
Just out of curiosity how do you know the battery is full if you can't get anything from the screen?
jhill110 said:
Ok, for one thing, changing that file will not hard brick your phone.
You either did something else to cause this issue or your battery is drained or kaput... It's not unheard of around here.
Just out of curiosity how do you know the battery is full if you can't get anything from the screen?
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Charging the spare battery
bcxv said:
Charging the spare battery
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Ahh...
How old is the phone?
jhill110 said:
Ok, for one thing, changing that file will not hard brick your phone.
You either did something else to cause this issue or your battery is drained or kaput... It's not unheard of around here.
Just out of curiosity how do you know the battery is full if you can't get anything from the screen?
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I would definitely agree with this. That file alone wouldn't brick your phone. Trust me, as many different files I swap in and out on a daily basis I've never had that happen.
jhill110 said:
Ahh...
How old is the phone?
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Production date April 2015
ianmb said:
I would definitely agree with this. That file alone wouldn't brick your phone. Trust me, as many different files I swap in and out on a daily basis I've never had that happen.
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No charge to phone
Charged with a charger
Same problem here,any solutions? Throw it away?
Hard bricked Note 4
Same as above. No power, nothing. Get the Qualcomm when connected to pc. Any ideas?
sshea72 said:
Same as above. No power, nothing. Get the Qualcomm when connected to pc. Any ideas?
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Check if this helps...
http://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/
Having problems with mine too please help
I have a note 4 from sprint....i havent used it in years but i try to turn it on and it dose and restarts when ba k up aging on the sprint spark screen and keeps doing that i changed batteries and nothing....i try going to recovery mode but just flickers on and off where the android picture but cant do nothin.......i cant rememeber if i was trying to root it or unroot it bt i think i was tryin to root it when the problem started......i try to connect it to the computer to root it and den unroot it but the computer cant get the drivers to find it....so i 2ant to know what can i do
texasrejects91 said:
I have a note 4 from sprint....i havent used it in years but i try to turn it on and it dose and restarts when ba k up aging on the sprint spark screen and keeps doing that i changed batteries and nothing....i try going to recovery mode but just flickers on and off where the android picture but cant do nothin.......i cant rememeber if i was trying to root it or unroot it bt i think i was tryin to root it when the problem started......i try to connect it to the computer to root it and den unroot it but the computer cant get the drivers to find it....so i 2ant to know what can i do
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If you are for sure that your drivers are installed. (Double check our reinstall ). Plus make sure your using a Samsung usb cord (musty be a good one)
But if all that stuff is correct. Then you might have a failing battery or phone. That's about all the help i can provide.
If you could at least get the phone booted into download mode and pc to reconize it. Then i would Odin a stock firmware.
sooo, I gues something went wrong... since the new marshmallow images was posted today, there was a thread on reddit on how I can just download the image and rename it and flash it as OTA. The phone reconginzed the image and went half way through the install and then went black. now it wont even buzz or register the charger. Does nothing when connected to the computer either so I assume there is nothing that could be done. Quite a shame, the phone worked quite nicely until is killed it . Anything I can do?
Did you install it thru TWRP?
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sooo, I gues something went wrong... since the new marshmallow images was posted today, there was a thread on reddit on how I can just download the image and rename it and flash it as OTA. The phone reconginzed the image and went half way through the install and then went black. now it wont even buzz or register the charger. Does nothing when connected to the computer either so I assume there is nothing that could be done. Quite a shame, the phone worked quite nicely until is killed it . Anything I can do?
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There is one thing I recommend trying as there is a bug in official firmware where the phone when connected to a computer can turn off randomly and not charge or boot. What you need to do is disassemble the phone and unplug the connector at the top of the phone to disconnect the battery and then plug it in.
krazy23 said:
Did you install it thru TWRP?
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no, the phone picked up the update from the internal storage
dc959 said:
There is one thing I recommend trying as there is a bug in official firmware where the phone when connected to a computer can turn off randomly and not charge or boot. What you need to do is disassemble the phone and unplug the connector at the top of the phone to disconnect the battery and then plug it in.
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thanks, I'm aware of that. Some folks experiencing the same issue tried that with no success. My phone is still under warranty and the screw securing the backplate has a seal on it that I dont want to tamper with.
I guess I'll be sending the phone for to Asus for repair...
Don't lose hope.
My phone was in a similar predicament.
No response to any buttons, nothing on screen, no buzzing or LED's at all.
I was able to get it recognized in the xFSTK Downloader and showing up in windows device manager as a Moorefield device.
I tried many times to get it to put the images on the phone through the xFSTK tool and it failed many times.
I was about to give up and tried again this morning and miraculously the writing succeeded and now my phone is in a bootloop (I think the battery may have been completely drained with my attempts to save it's life.)
I have it on charge currently so hopefully when there is enough juice I should be able to flash the raw file and be back up and running.
I see, you can follow the unbricking tutorial in the general section. Works fine for me and saved me from sending it to the service center.
krazy23 said:
Did you install it thru TWRP?
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I did! And now my phone is dead! But it buzzes when I press the power button for some seconds.. But it's always black
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I did! And now my phone is dead! But it buzzes when I press the power button for some seconds.. But it's always black
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That's what happened to my phone, you can follow this thread this worked for me. Unbricking Method
krazy23 said:
That's what happened to my phone, you can follow this thread this worked for me. Unbricking Method
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do you lose the data this way?
thekingestkong said:
do you lose the data this way?
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Unfortunately, yes. Because I ticked the "wipe data" checkbox in the ASUS Flash Tool. Not sure what will happen if I don't. :fingers-crossed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/general/guide-brick-soft-hard-bricked-zenfon
I also bricked my phone and used the method to fix my phone. Make sure you have all the required drivers installed in your pc/laptop before doing this. I took help of DriverMax to solve the drivers related issues. Make sure before installing and running the XFTSK tool all the drivers and everything is installed otherwise you will see blank forms in the Tool.
Hi everyone
I having this problem with my lg g3 d855 ... My phone was at 5% then i wanted to remove kingroot because i wanted to flash super su. After uninstalling kingroot (in the app) the app crashed ant after few seconds my phone turned off... i was thinking my phones battery just died, but i was wrong. My phone wont turn on now :/... Only response i get from it then i plug it in the charger without battery (it show no battery error)... then i put battery in, screen goes blank.
And also i installed twrp using app from store (Forgot the name, but for d855 model)
*LG G3 D855 Android 6.0 official* (if needed.)
i tried:
holding power button for 15sec without battery and then charging it... Didn't work :/.
Putting another battery (Galaxy s3... Charged to 30% at least. I don't have another lg battery ), same result.
New battery also doesn't do anything...
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i tried method in http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359 but i can't find nor make .tot file :/ anyone can link mby?
and there's exclamation mark near Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008(COM13) in device manager. Maybe there's a problem with that?
Help guys
EDIT V2!!:
Thanks for nothing
i fixed my lgg3 with this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359
and flashed files in this order http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...very-guide-t3132359/post65291398#post65291398
after that i put phone into download mode and flashed kdz file i had
at least someone responded to this post :/
It works now!..
The problem was autorec... i tried to install recovery using autorec for lollipop and that screwed everything
I have exactly the same problem.
Hamtero said:
I have exactly the same problem.
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i fixed my lgg3 with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/general/guide-fix-hard-brick-recovery-guide-t3132359
and flashed files in this order http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...very-guide-t3132359/post65291398#post65291398
(i installed slb1 without battery and then unpluged phone, put battery, hold volume up, putted usb back into phone and tried to put phone into download mode. IT WORKED!! )
And Thanks for replay
I was in the middle of unbrick my g3 from hard brick to soft brick. I flash firmware using lg up at 99% then the phone died as it tried to reboot. It won't boot at all. As you said when remove the battery and connect charger, i can see my motherboard working with exclamation mark. As soon as i put the battery, motherboard out and no sign of life. Is this sign of bad battery or what. I don't have spared battery
I recommend first, to users with similar problems, to try first my guide in following link and after the pins in motherboard-tot files
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/root-twrp-marshmallow-d855-30b-t3286268/page116
Superuser_ said:
I recommend first, to users with similar problems, to try first my guide in following link and after the pins in motherboard-tot files
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/root-twrp-marshmallow-d855-30b-t3286268/page116
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I have D858HK hard bricked for 2 month and i use v10d to flash every partition. Then it won't boot into recovery. When i use v985 .tot, it successfully boot into recovery. Also on LG Smart Board diagnostic, my model not detected. Even if i manually select, nothing happen when it reboot. Right now, i have no idea whats wrong as i spent countless of hour on google and XDA.
anip_aniki said:
I have D858HK hard bricked for 2 month and i use v10d to flash every partition. Then it won't boot into recovery. When i use v985 .tot, it successfully boot into recovery. Also on LG Smart Board diagnostic, my model not detected. Even if i manually select, nothing happen when it reboot. Right now, i have no idea whats wrong as i spent countless of hour on google and XDA.
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Have you try my guide?
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Have you try my guide?
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I already follow your guide. The thing is, my device not detected on LG Smart Board Diagnostic. When i manually select my device, everything ok then it boot with blank screen with red and blue led. I can't even enter download mode. I use win 10 64bit with all driver installed and disable integrity checks and everything