So, I've been seeing A LOT of threads regarding bricked devices (be it soft or hard bricks). So, I decided to create this thread, so everyone with bricked devices post here for help, instead of filling our forums and XDA servers with a load of topics with the same stuff.
If someone knows of a general unbricking thread, please PM me or tag me with a link so I can post on this post.
I will PM a mod to pin this thread to top.
To all brickers,
Before posting, try this thread:{RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick
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Guys My ION LT28h got bricked during a recovery using CWM.
First It was a soft brick, i did something , random pressing of buttons made it worse. its on HARD BRICKED STATE now. Its been more than 5 weeks.
So after some research i found out that my Kernel is ****ed up. My phone is Boot loader Locked, so i cant flash the Kernel separately.
Now few of our fellow xda members told me to unplug the battery cable from the motherboard.
I have successfully disconnected the battery cable from motherboard, i kept it disconnected for one whole night.
Whats the next step ?
Will i be able to flash it with flash tool after connecting the battery to motherboard back ?
Will i be able flash the busted Kernel to a working stock kernel ?
Accidentally messed up and soft bricked Ion- LT28h.
xperia Ion LT28h
ROM: JB 4.1 Pure CyanogenMod Based on CM 10 FXP 218
kernel: GI Kernel v3 or v5
Recovery: TWRP and CWM
Rooted and Unlocked Bootloader
Hi guys, above mentioned were my previous settings. Had occassional reboots and sometimes it was kinda laggy that's why i decided to flash it to another ROM - supposedly to ParanoidAndroid. After following steps to install PA, my phone was on bootloops, was in a hurry then freaked out, i tried soft and hardreset, and tried booting on recovery both on twrp and cwm to flash properly as what was instructed however i may have flashed the wrong zips interchangeably with other roms and kernels resulting to a total messed up ion. i could have restored immediately to a saved CWM or TWRP backup right away however, i only stopped resetting when my phone suddenly stopped responding, no Sony logo, no Xperia logo, no boot, just backlight on, does not turn off, soft and hard reset no nothing. i guess until the battery went dead, then i charged it the whole night.
after reading most threads on recovering softbricked phone, mainly this {RECOVER SOFT-brick}[2012 XPERIA's]Recover ALL 2012 XPERIAs from SOFT-brick thread, and after a couple of days of red led, i constantly charged, i patiently waited(2days) still no green led, however i found out that i can access fastboot. (blue led).. i managed to get to this fastboot mode(blue led) ONLY after i soft reset or power+vol.up/1 vibrate the phone once the backlight lits up- on&off - for about less than a minute then it goes back to red led. (i'll be calling that stage as backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle) but then again if i go to fastboot, it will stay in fastboot mode during flashes and it stays there until the battery runs out and goes back to red led. then i charge my phone again, but
during fastboot mode, i have tried flashing the kernel, system and boot image. all via Fastboot command prompt.
and all were successful. there were combinations like, flashing only the kernel, tried flashing kernel and system, tried boot image only, tried all the same time, tried system only, tried different kernels, system and boot img, BUT STILL my phone wont even give me the sony logo screen.
then i thought i may need to wipe cache and userdata so i also erased cache and userdate a couple of times via fastboot mode command prompt. and yes fastboot does detects my phone. it can reboot to bootloader or just the normal fastboot reboot. so i have no issues regarding phone and pc via using fastboot command prompt. and Same thing - all flashes were successful,
i have flashed i think more or less than a total of 50 times, flashing different combinations. Still it goes back to brick mode.. backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle.
i'd like to add that i have also tried flashing via fastboot mode using Flashtool. (thunder icon+selecting 'fastboot mode'). i have flashed the kernel and system, tried kernel only, tried both same time, tried system with boot.img tried flashing kernel with boot.img too, tried different combinations. again, all were successful, but still same result.
it only goes back to backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle.
a couple of days after it went to green. flashmode finally! thinking everything will now be alright, i decided to flash it using flashtool via flashmode. I connected phone to pc, after the solid red led and after backlit-on&off-then-back-to-solid-red-led cycle. and the it goes back to red led then the backlit on&off cycle, after observing my phone for hours i then knew that after, i guess about a hundred cycle of backlit on&offs it really does go to green led by itself and if i'm connected to the pc and flashtool it stays on green led or flashmode, however if im connected only on a wallcharger it goes to green led but will only stay there for like 1-2 seconds then goes back to red led and then the backlit on&off cycle.
then i thought just maybe my battery really needs to die as mentioned, since upon plugging my phone on to a wall charger it goes immediately to red led and there's really no response on the phone except only if you gonna wait for the backlit on&off cycle the n press power + vol up then it will respond and go to fastboot mode or power+vol down which goes to flashmode. then i decided to reset the battery by carefully unplugging the ribbon cable and i did. well, initially it did (led was off for a moment then changed to blinking red then solid red) but i have to go to work that time and had to continue only after coming home from work, and that did not resolved it.
i may have flashed my ion a hundred times or so to this date, still no luck. i have finally decided to re-locked my bootloader- and yes it is successfully locked now. - thinking PCC/SEUS/SUS would get it back to life but i'm wrong - it just cant detect my phone. PC companion detects it as Phone/Tablet only then after selecting Ion on the phone list it always says my device is upto date and no available software. (sad)
I also noticed that flashtool does not detect my phone as LT28h. It only says that it is connected to flashmode. Is that an issue too. I have tried diff versions of flashtool from 9.6 to 9.11 all same. i have also installed fastboot and adb as well as flashtool drivers, it sayas all were successfully installed however if im connected via flashtool flashmode, none seems to be detected on device manager, tried reinstalling and manually installing the sony sa0103 adb interface driver however after installing i get an error unable to start device. even if my phone is connected still the device on devicemanager still has an excalamation point. i'm using windows 8. i have flashed successfully before when my phone was in good state, however now that im on brick mode it seems that all flashes i've done did not push thru. also those times that i have flashed my ion via flashtool it says something like:
phone should be connected with usb debugging on and enabled install on unknown sources. i have tried flashing it using win7 pc phone was not detected still, however flashtool stated and detected my device was connected on usb debugging mode, but have has errors during flashing though.
since my bootloader is now locked im unable to flash now via fastboot. before bootloader status says- rooted now bootloader status is- ROOTABLE.
i previously owned xperia neo and have managed to flash it successfully without any issues, also this is the 3rd time i had bricked my ion and managed to fix it before..
i also want to ask regarding flashing back to stock - does that mean any stock firmware can be selected? can be .233 / .68 /.20 or the latest ICS 6.1.E.3.7? coz i have basically tried to all of those mentioned. also is the reason that my flashes were not successful is it because i was currently on 4.1 JB ROM and im flashing 4.0 ICS stock? I also have TWRP and CWM backups on my PC and on internal SD card, is there a way for me to flash or restore those backups via flashtool?
I'm running out of options, i'm desperate and on the verge of giving up.
i dont want to believe that i have totally messed up and hard bricked my phone. I do believe that there is a solution to this, and my phone can be recovered without sending it over to repairshop.. Today is the 3rd week and still struggling to get my phone back to life (even just the sony logo) . any suggestions before i unlock again my bootloader? please help. Any help will be gladly appreciated, and many thanks to everyone for spending time on reading my messed up and soft/hardbrick ion experience.
If you brick your device while flashing kernel and device do not respond any way then follow this little difficult but 100% sure method.
- Dissemble your phone.
- Disconnect battery ribbon from motherboard.
- Reconnect battery ribbon.
- Fastly connect USB cable while holding vol +/-
- Flash Kernel or FTF FW.
Just looking for some direction on my Xperia Ion that recently got bricked while attempting to update to JB software.
Currently, it has no response except for plugging into charger giving a solid red light. I am unable to get it into flashmode and have already disassembled and disconnected/reconnected the battery to reset it.
Im gonna guess that the kernel is royally efed up at this point, Im unable to get it into a bootloop either.
What is the next step to solve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Droiiiiiiiiid said:
Just looking for some direction on my Xperia Ion that recently got bricked while attempting to update to JB software.
Currently, it has no response except for plugging into charger giving a solid red light. I am unable to get it into flashmode and have already disassembled and disconnected/reconnected the battery to reset it.
Im gonna guess that the kernel is royally efed up at this point, Im unable to get it into a bootloop either.
What is the next step to solve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Did you try SUS ? Official update service ?
Droiiiiiiiiid said:
Just looking for some direction on my Xperia Ion that recently got bricked while attempting to update to JB software.
Currently, it has no response except for plugging into charger giving a solid red light. I am unable to get it into flashmode and have already disassembled and disconnected/reconnected the battery to reset it.
Im gonna guess that the kernel is royally efed up at this point, Im unable to get it into a bootloop either.
What is the next step to solve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I think that you should charge it more to be able to go into flashmode. Maybe until the red light will go off or it'll turn into green. Then try to go into flashmode. Good luck
MozzieZ said:
Did you try SUS ? Official update service ?
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I was going to but that requires my device be in Flashmode.
Droiiiiiiiiid said:
I was going to but that requires my device be in Flashmode.
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Read this, maybe it will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344896
This is my first time got hard brick on my phone. I'm flash wrong ROM (it made for S but I flash it on SL) now my phone totally dead. When I put on wall charger it show constant red led and off several minutes later, try disassemble phone and disconnect and connect ribbon doesn't help to get flashmode and fastboot mode. Any help would be very appreciated.
EDIT: After disconnect ribbon battery I got notification on flashtool "device connected with usb debugging off" but led remains on constant red. Should I try rubber band tricks?
ahlulnugraha said:
This is my first time got hard brick on my phone. I'm flash wrong ROM (it made for S but I flash it on SL) now my phone totally dead. When I put on wall charger it show constant red led and off several minutes later, try disassemble phone and disconnect and connect ribbon doesn't help to get flashmode and fastboot mode. Any help would be very appreciated.
EDIT: After disconnect ribbon battery I got notification on flashtool "device connected with usb debugging off" but led remains on constant red. Should I try rubber band tricks?
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After disconnecting and connecting back the battery cable , you wont get access to flashboot/flashmode instantly. disconnecting the cable will reset the phone.
If you are getting red led means , its charging on low power. You should keep on wall charging for some hours , say 12 + hours.
After that try flashing the kernel alone , first . you will have to hold the flash mode button for sometime. say 5-10 minutes. then if u have enough charge in your phone it will flash the kernel alone. if u are successful in flashing the kernel, then charge again for some hours , 2-4 hours then try to flash the entire ROM.
Read the Thread Recovering Bricked Phones. This will help. I recovered my phone following the method shown in that thread.
Be patient bro, you can recover your phone, just that it will take some time
Captain Droid said:
After disconnecting and connecting back the battery cable , you wont get access to flashboot/flashmode instantly. disconnecting the cable will reset the phone.
If you are getting red led means , its charging on low power. You should keep on wall charging for some hours , say 12 + hours.
After that try flashing the kernel alone , first . you will have to hold the flash mode button for sometime. say 5-10 minutes. then if u have enough charge in your phone it will flash the kernel alone. if u are successful in flashing the kernel, then charge again for some hours , 2-4 hours then try to flash the entire ROM.
Read the Thread Recovering Bricked Phones. This will help. I recovered my phone following the method shown in that thread.
Be patient bro, you can recover your phone, just that it will take some time
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Thanks for your fast reply, but I'm already put on wall charger 1 day, and the red led got turn off (no led at all). I think I'll try rubber band trick tonight and leave it till morning.
Hey guys I'm having a problem with my Acro S... It's bootloader is unlocked.
It was soft bricked due to a command I ran on Terminal Emulator (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0). After inputting that command I safely turned off the phone (Long press Power button, Choose Power off). After turning off, phone was completely dead, no response. It was on 80% battery for sure. It happened last week Saturday (July 20). I then charged my phone for 2days+. On the first day (July 21), no red LED appeared, on the 2nd day (July 22), constant red LED appeared, 3rd day (July 23), red LED disappeared. I then prepared my flashtool for flashing the JB firmware .211 KERNEL ONLY. So I plugged in my phone with volume down pressed, I pressed it for 15mins! My finger was f*cked, after 15mins... nothing happened, RED LED just disappeared and I just heard the Windows USB sound. Flash process didn't start, phone didn't give me a GREEN LED. I tried it again and again and miserably same thing happens, can't go to flash mode. Tried the same with volume up button for fastboot mode but still nothing happens, the RED LED just disappears!
Should I just leave my phone charging on the wall socket even if the RED LED disappeared? To get green LED?
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME! I NEED MY PHONE SO BAD! :crying:
i was installing the prerooted/deodexed stock lt28h rom through cwm in the middle of instalation my phone rebooted and came into a sony bootloop i forced it shutdown by pressing power and volume up now its not starting not even charginig what to do please help :crying::crying:
Flash Tool
Be calm and sit back now put your phone to charger for whole night and then next day download flashtool and a firmware for you device and fladh it your device will breath again.......
tejasvi1 said:
i was installing the prerooted/deodexed stock lt28h rom through cwm in the middle of instalation my phone rebooted and came into a sony bootloop i forced it shutdown by pressing power and volume up now its not starting not even charginig what to do please help :crying::crying:
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we have desame problem my phone is not charging no ligths/led and cant power on after pressing power and up because im stuck in boothllop after afgrading via OTA.
theprint said:
we have desame problem my phone is not charging no ligths/led and cant power on after pressing power and up because im stuck in boothllop after afgrading via OTA.
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thks for sharing but i have alraedy solved my hard brick problem my phone is back and running normally
Problem SOLVED!
Thank you all!
Hi ClarkOwen, would you care to share what happened and how to solve it? My Optimus G won't boot with red flashing led.
What rom are you using?
I tried to boot into safemode by turning on with power button + volume down button and holding it till it boot up then I uninstalled framework and gravity box as i think they are preventing my phone to boot up and then I rebooted my phone and it worked
What exactly did you do with your phone? What caused it not to boot up anymore?
There are senarios where you do get to restoer your phone using kdz but then it still wont boot up with red led blinking which basically means the battery needs to be hardware reset - taken out of the phone which would require you to open up your phone which is difficult. Thats why I need to know first what happened which prevents your phone to boot up.
ClarkOwen said:
There are senarios where you do get to restoer your phone using kdz but then it still wont boot up with red led blinking which basically means the battery needs to be hardware reset - taken out of the phone which would require you to open up your phone which is difficult. Thats why I need to know first what happened which prevents your phone to boot up.
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Thanks for your reply. I run stock ROM and was preparing for flashing with CM11. I installed ROM Manager and updated my clockmodwork recovery. Then I boot to recovery when this disaster began. The phone just wont boot.
I followed the instruction found in this forum to unbrick using kdz updater and LGNPST and yes I needed to disconnect the battery first. Open up the battery cover was difficult but I managed to to it. After numerous attempts I managed to complete the step for both kdz updater and LGNPST but that still wouldn't boot the phone. Not even into recovery. I could get to the download mode though.
The last successful attempt with KDZ updater (successful means completed steps) has caused my phone totally dead. Now it won't respond in anyway. No flashing led, nothing. I suspect the battery could be dead.
Is it true that we can't charge the battery when the phone is (soft)-bricked?
Anyone knows how to charge LG Optimus G battery in the case of emergency? Ie. not through the phone? I read post about charging using stripped-out USB cable but I don't know where is the +/- of the battery.
The phone is showing black screen after i flashed exitrecovery.zip file since i got stuck into a recovery bootloop and right after when i pressed reboot button in twrp phone died. Have i got the phone hard bricked?? :crying:
What i have tried so far is pressing various keys combination and nothing is happening, tried to get into download mode but right after putting the usb cable connected with pc into phone it gives a notification sound but doesn't shows anything on phone screen :crying:
I also tried to flash the stock rom with lg flash tool 2014 with kdz file but it reaches to a point in the beginning and it gives an error message that the "phone isnt connected pull out the cable and retry" and after pressing retry few times it gets stuck at 60%
Please help, is there a way to get out of this :crying:
When something similar happened to my Galaxy S4, I charged it to 100% first. Then I tried flashing the stock image back to it twice. The first time did not seem as if it completed. Second time was the charm. I know the phones are different but the symptoms are identical.
rigerp said:
The phone is showing black screen after i flashed exitrecovery.zip file since i got stuck into a recovery bootloop and right after when i pressed reboot button in twrp phone died. Have i got the phone hard bricked?? :crying:
What i have tried so far is pressing various keys combination and nothing is happening, tried to get into download mode but right after putting the usb cable connected with pc into phone it gives a notification sound but doesn't shows anything on phone screen :crying:
I also tried to flash the stock rom with lg flash tool 2014 with kdz file but it reaches to a point in the beginning and it gives an error message that the "phone isnt connected pull out the cable and retry" and after pressing retry few times it gets stuck at 60%
Please help, is there a way to get out of this :crying:
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jmacguire said:
When something similar happened to my Galaxy S4, I charged it to 100% first. Then I tried flashing the stock image back to it twice. The first time did not seem as if it completed. Second time was the charm. I know the phones are different but the symptoms are identical.
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ok let me try it out, please stay in touch?
Hello
I am new to working on these phones so I apologize in advance if I don't properly state any processes or terms correctly.
I have a stock non modded Verizon LGG3 VS985 that experienced problems with WiFi and Bluetooth not working and significant battery drain. This happened right after a recent update to marshmallow. I tried cache clearing, safe mode, hard reset and nothing solved the problem. I decided I wanted to take the phone back to factory condition. I started with the LG flash tool that uses the .tot and a .dll. I ran the flash and when the program got to approx. 80%(at checking mini os phase of the flash) the phone began to reboot and only got as far as the LG logo and after about 2 min of the phone trying to reboot the flash program said fail, usb connect or something like that. At this point the phone will only start and go into a loop that includes the vibrate and the LG logo. and that will cycle until I believe the battery would die if allowed. I then found a link here at XDA (https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/guide-flash-to-stock-10b-kdz-method-t2928140) that uses the KDZ method, was well written and easy to follow. I ran it on the phone and it was going great. The flash program got to 88% and the phone went into the boot loop with the vib and LG logo . The flash program continued to run until it was complete while the phone was in the boot loop and it got to 100% and said that the software installed. I powered down the phone via battery removal and now when it tries to boot it vibes, shows the lg log and then the green android symbol shows for about 2 seconds and then it does it all over again. I have tried a hard reset and nothing changes. I appreciate any ideas any of you may have on what I can try to get this resolved. Thank you.
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Hello
I am new to working on these phones so I apologize in advance if I don't properly state any processes or terms correctly.
I have a stock non modded Verizon LGG3 VS985 that experienced problems with WiFi and Bluetooth not working and significant battery drain. This happened right after a recent update to marshmallow. I tried cache clearing, safe mode, hard reset and nothing solved the problem. I decided I wanted to take the phone back to factory condition. I started with the LG flash tool that uses the .tot and a .dll. I ran the flash and when the program got to approx. 80%(at checking mini os phase of the flash) the phone began to reboot and only got as far as the LG logo and after about 2 min of the phone trying to reboot the flash program said fail, usb connect or something like that. At this point the phone will only start and go into a loop that includes the vibrate and the LG logo. and that will cycle until I believe the battery would die if allowed. I then found a link here at XDA (https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/guide-flash-to-stock-10b-kdz-method-t2928140) that uses the KDZ method, was well written and easy to follow. I ran it on the phone and it was going great. The flash program got to 88% and the phone went into the boot loop with the vib and LG logo . The flash program continued to run until it was complete while the phone was in the boot loop and it got to 100% and said that the software installed. I powered down the phone via battery removal and now when it tries to boot it vibes, shows the lg log and then the green android symbol shows for about 2 seconds and then it does it all over again. I have tried a hard reset and nothing changes. I appreciate any ideas any of you may have on what I can try to get this resolved. Thank you.
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U try to go back to stock by shutting the phone down then hold the volume up button then plug in the phone to get into download mode
Sent from my LG-VS985 using Tapatalk
djevil said:
U try to go back to stock by shutting the phone down then hold the volume up button then plug in the phone to get into download mode
Sent from my LG-VS985 using Tapatalk
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Not sure I understand the question completely, but I did place the phone in download mode as per the method you mention prior to both attempting the KDZ method and the TOT method of going back to stock.