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Please post here if your i780 was bricked.
1)Symptoms before brick
2)Name of firmware (PDA/Phone)
3)Kind of repair after.
Thank you for helping community to figure out how to avoid this future
28/01/2010 SOLUTION:
If you have suddenly (or) after flashing of new ROM strange things:
read this post.
i have one bricked i780
hi heniken78,my bricked i780 as follow
1.when flash your 28008 rom dated 13.12.09,it cann't get into desktop suceesefully,and system goes very slow
2.firmware is PDXIB1
3.noway,because i cann't get in bootloader.even plug in charge cable,the led couldn't light on.
sunnyjiang said:
hi heniken78,my bricked i780 as follow
1.when flash your 28008 rom dated 13.12.09,it cann't get into desktop suceesefully,and system goes very slow
2.firmware is PDXIB1
3.noway,because i cann't get in bootloader.even plug in charge cable,the led couldn't light on.
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have you tried hardreset(red+green+power) or emergency(b/w+enter)mode?
might you can solve this way =)
hashtowent said:
have you tried hardreset(red+green+power) or emergency(b/w+enter)mode?
might you can solve this way =)
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No when led is not on anymore- you cant get in bootloader.
heineken78 said:
Please post here if your i780 was bricked.
1)Symptoms before brick
2)Name of firmware (PDA/Phone)
3)Kind of repair after.
Thank you for helping community to figure out this BLACK future.
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My phone was bricked two times
1) The phone rest stuck to Samsung screen when I open it
2) PDXIB1
3) Samsung Center changed the motherboard of the phone
Symptoms:
Every application will respond with message: Application is not signed or missing components (or something else). Only soft reset worked - but phone did a hard reset every time. Sometimes after hard reset contacts stayed as it was (everything else was deleted). These troubles last for 3 days for me until my phone died. Board is damaged and repair will cost 310,- €.
ROM version:
28205 @96 DPI made by ironeagle
Repair:
To buy a new board and a new battery (cause the old one has been damaged too - or just use a second battery instead).
how to execute emergency mode
hashtowent said:
have you tried hardreset(red+green+power) or emergency(b/w+enter)mode?
might you can solve this way =)
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i donn't know how to getin emergency mode,can you explain what i should to do
emergency mode is the mode u use when u flash a new rom
fn+enter+power(5 seconds).
Anyway, when my device bricked...it was almost 6 months back.
I used quite a bit of wifi, and left my device on the charger with wifi on accidentally. When i woke up a couple hrs later...the device seemed like it was in standby charging. Pulled off the charger, but the charging LED was still glowing! Device didnt respond to anything, pulled the battery out and put it back in....and boom! went totally dead...tried different batteries, tried soft reset, format mode, emergency mode...nothing. no sign of life!
mobo had to be replaced....got it done free as it was just abt 15 days old when this happened
I think its more of a hardware fault....some units being faulty waiting to blow in your face!
Just spoke to Samsung service about bricked phones: From their experience they have changed mobo only once, when 780 wasnt charging, but was working.
But they told that in case of fault of bootloader - thay DONT restore it, just replacing motherboard!
So there is chance to repair you phone by JTAG tool.
I hope trizzio that helps.
heineken78 said:
Just spoke to Samsung service about bricked phones: From their experience they have changed mobo only once, when 780 wasnt charging, but was working.
But they told that in case of fault of bootloader - thay DONT restore it, just replacing motherboard!
So there is chance to repair you phone by JTAG tool.
I hope trizzio that helps.
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hey dude - where could I get that JTAG tool?
trizzo said:
hey dude - where could I get that JTAG tool?
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Dude I advise you to visit http://www.omnia-repair.com/ and ask on forum if someone can do this for you. Tool is about 300 EUR and Omnia is top brick phone, so you should find services that already have it, it does support i780.
tip: use google search for more options.
Hey guys,
my phone was bricked: I'd flashed heineken's "i780 WM 6.5.3 ver.28205 DPI 96" rom. After two days some errors appeared and I flashed (&hardreset) the rom again. While connecting to ActiveSync the connection was broken after some minutes. Then I have disconnected the USB-Cable and the phone was frozen. No reaction. No hard-reset keys, no LED reaction while power-connector.
So... I'm not shure whether this problem is because of heineken's rom. But the good news are: Samsung support switched the motherboard because of 24month guarantee
SAM-123 said:
Hey guys,
my phone was bricked: I'd flashed heineken's "i780 WM 6.5.3 ver.28205 DPI 96" rom. After two days some errors appeared and I flashed (&hardreset) the rom again. While connecting to ActiveSync the connection was broken after some minutes. Then I have disconnected the USB-Cable and the phone was frozen. No reaction. No hard-reset keys, no LED reaction while power-connector.
So... I'm not shure whether this problem is because of heineken's rom. But the good news are: Samsung support switched the motherboard because of 24month guarantee
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Im sorry SAM.
This first version was really weird, I have changed algorythms of compile again in version 2.
But there is always way when you get starnge glitches before you get brick - to flash offical rom to avoid a brick.
As for me I never had any of symptoms..flashed 1001 time.
About bricks...
I have experienced described situations (sudden out of memory, unable to run any app becouse of errors, dissapearing data and so on) around ten times during my cooking/flashing adventures, with different ROMs from different developers. Sometimes at the begining, when weird behaviors of my i780 started, I tried flashing device with other unoficial images, but problems remained. I think I even posted about my problem somewhere...
And I could always recover my device doing one simple thing.
Flashing official PDXIB1.
But important thing is that YOU SHOULD USE OFFICIAL UPDATER from Samsung site (in my case Vista version), not a .bin under Mirage!!
I know it is stupid, but it works better (and if something looks stupid and works better, then it is not stupid any more; Murphy`s law)
In my case Mirage not always proved to be a sollution.
SO every time when that situation emerge, thats what I would do very quick:
1. Hard reset.
2. Flashing oficial Samsung Updater (tutorial on Samsung site)
About reasons bricks happens; I have found no pattern. It happens with WM6, WM6.1 and WM6.5 or WM6.5.x. Sometimes one and the same ROM works perfect two weeks and flashed next time generates bricks.
As someone noticed previously, it is probobly a hardware-software problem, some kind of memory /filesystem/ FAT? damage and it is possible to revert that by flashing official ROM..
I am not a computer scientist, but thats only pattern/mark I can see..
Hi,
I was flashing the UK Sbf on a unbricked phone using RSD Lite 4.9. During the flashing process, suddenly phone turned off and disconnected with RSD Lite displayed a message "Failed, Device disconnected error".
I actually had 40% battery b4 starting the process. is it the low-battery problem?? Now, I am not able to do anything with the phone. When I have plugged in for charging, it says nothing. Is it dead?? But, when I have connected to the USB, a white small light comes on the top.
How to get my phone back? My phone is from Honk kong and i have rooted it as well.
Would u please guide me if we can do something??
Many thanks in advance,
Regards,
Naga
Charge your battery in another phone or in an universal charger and try to flash once again. Or you can repeat flashing procedure on another PC.
nagnrik said:
Hi,
I was flashing the UK Sbf on a unbricked phone using RSD Lite 4.9. During the flashing process, suddenly phone turned off and disconnected with RSD Lite displayed a message "Failed, Device disconnected error".
I actually had 40% battery b4 starting the process. is it the low-battery problem?? Now, I am not able to do anything with the phone. When I have plugged in for charging, it says nothing. Is it dead?? But, when I have connected to the USB, a white small light comes on the top.
How to get my phone back? My phone is from Honk kong and i have rooted it as well.
Would u please guide me if we can do something??
Many thanks in advance,
Regards,
Naga
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Don't worry.
If the white led brights on the phone, it is possibly charging.
If not, read the following thread, there's the solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926012
BE CAREFUL WITH IT!
Well, thanks for the quick repsponse guys... I try this... Hope, it works...
I have tried it... no luck.... But, I am a bit sure I have connected those wires properly n mounted the battery..... I got this mobile from Honk-kong.. I was actually flashing a UK Firmware (SBF)... Does it matter?? I did not wipe or any resets prior to flashing.. I have successfully rooted the mobile after Hard trails... thought of flashing it to froyo... But, mistakenly did this... )..... It went well till 73% and suddenly disconnected error and phone turned off with a white light on the top..
Any other way other than sending it to Motorola support... And I am in Dubai now.. this mobile is still not available here... so no local support from Motorola end. I have to pack it to either UK or HK...
Any trails???
Many thanks in advance.....
What .sbf are you flashing? The 2.34 or 2.5.1?
nagnrik said:
I have tried it... no luck.... But, I am a bit sure I have connected those wires properly n mounted the battery..... I got this mobile from Honk-kong.. I was actually flashing a UK Firmware (SBF)... Does it matter?? I did not wipe or any resets prior to flashing.. I have successfully rooted the mobile after Hard trails... thought of flashing it to froyo... But, mistakenly did this... )..... It went well till 73% and suddenly disconnected error and phone turned off with a white light on the top..
Any other way other than sending it to Motorola support... And I am in Dubai now.. this mobile is still not available here... so no local support from Motorola end. I have to pack it to either UK or HK...
Any trails???
Many thanks in advance.....
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Can you start it in flash mode or recovery mode?
(vol up + power or vol down + power)
Hi, I am not sure of this as I have downloaded too many files for rooting, froyo upgrade and other stuffs.. But the file name is "UK_rom.sbf" and size 370MB+. are there any consequences??
avers said:
Can you start it in flash mode or recovery mode?
(vol up + power or vol down + power)
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Yeah, I have charged it for sometime and trying to POWER+VOLUME-UP for boot loader only... It looks like dead, no repsonse from it... when I have put it for charging, it did not show any indication that it is being chraged.... anything went wrong???
nagnrik said:
Hi, I am not sure of this as I have downloaded too many files for rooting, froyo upgrade and other stuffs.. But the file name is "UK_rom.sbf" and size 370MB+. are there any consequences??
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Ok, go here http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy and download an sbf, I use 2.5.1, however once you flash it you cannot downgrade it,,, There is owever a lot of develpment more recently for it, im running a smooth froyo on it now.
Anways, pick one, extract that file to your RSD folder.
Open your RSD lite
Pull the battery from your phone, wait a few seconds, put it in, and boot into bootloader (vol up and power).
Plug the phone in, as long as the white light comes on you should be good...
select your new sbf file and hit start on RSD, you should work..
Now depending on what you had prior, your only option may be to flash 2.5 which is what I had to do.. Again, Id rather have a phone that turns on then complain about not being able to downgrade..
Let me know
good luck from my side
hint: never used a file called "UK_rom.sbf" - little unspecific ;===)
-nevermind- good luck once again, hope you bring it back to work!
Well, mobile it self is not turning on... It is a strange issue.. And fortunately, It has been launched here a 3 days ago in UAE.. I went to a store to check if the issue with the battery.. I have replaced and tested it out.. No luck.. I did not c the % of the charging. May be Bootloader requires more charging than normal powering... Anyways, I am decided to submit it to Motorola here, they must help us out...
Thanks everyone here for the wonderful support.... love XDA.... keep u posted as soon as it is fixed.... Many thanks again....
I deserve a beer for this!!!
Did the same goof up....got greedy for froyo and couldn't resist f&(*ing my defy........was cribbing for 8 hours while figuring out the solution.... escaped office for this.....but finally finally .......i saved it.......man.....if blood is the answer for blooood....then it has to be 2.51 for 2.51....
please click the link below for the only feasible 2.51 sbf....flash your defy in a standard manner and kabbooooom........defy reincarnated...
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hope it works for all the good people in need....it worked for me (Atleast my defy turned on still observing how it works)..
Defy 2.51 sbf
Sorry for being late to the party, but how did this turn out eventually?
Hi all.
I know there are many threads about this, but there was no solution for my problem anywhere out there
Yesterday I got my Defy back from repair (broken speaker) and switched it on - I wondered why there is the vodafone 360 (I'm in germany) logo coming up, because it was not there before I sent it to repair... I immediately switched it off, to flash the de-blurred version (JRDNEM_U3_2.34.1) from and-developers.com which worked on the device before, without any problems.
After flashing it with RSDlite and got a PASS, it did not reboot - but it was still recognized by the Computer (USB-connecting sound on Windows) and RSDlite! So I tried to flash it again, but the problem persists. I already tried the McGyver-USB-cable-method and various battery-out-pressing-button-battery-in-again solutions... no chance. After a few hours testing, the phone stopped being recognized by the computer, too! I did not flash again and the white LED is still lighting up, when I plug the cable into the computer.
I left the phone with the USB-cable plugged into the computer over the night (6 hours), hoping it will charge (assuming I got the battery drained by testing too much) but the situation is still the same this morning.
I think I REALLY bricked it and have to send it to the shop, which also fixed the speaker (which I did not get to test yet ) - I would like to see a different approach, because I know I will get that ****ty vodafone 360-ROM on my phone again
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
hitti
They have updated your software to 2.51 when they gave it back. It is foolish of you not to even check before flashing it. Flash the 2.51 or chinese froyo sbfs.
Sent from my MB525 using XDA App
Yes, that's right - I should have checked it before.
I can't flash anything, because my computer does not "see" the phone anymore
Edit:
I sent it back to that shop, which repaired it before - hoping they get it fixed.
But u cud just flash 2.51. Well, anyway.
Sent from my MB525 using XDA App
Turn off your phone (by pulling battery if necessary). Press and hold the volumn up button and turn on the phone to open the boot loader page. Then plug in the usb cable and flash the 2.51 rom.
ABC_Universal said:
Turn off your phone (by pulling battery if necessary). Press and hold the volumn up button and turn on the phone to open the boot loader page. Then plug in the usb cable and flash the 2.51 rom.
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ABC is right..the problem is you might just get a blank screen but it gets detected by RSD. This happened to me before and thought I bricked my Defy, which almost made me shat bricks! But since you sent it in already..hopefully they fixed it if not, you can do it yourself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884105
download and flash....it worked for me...
I tried all kinds of combinations of pushing buttons and putting batteries in and out - it was not recognized by the computer or RSDlite at all. Thanks for helping, anyway
Maybe the battery is discharged
Do you know any person who has a Defy to let you the battery, and then reflash?
Hi,
I was flashing a new CM7 theme on my 2 weeks old DZ (with CM7 RC 2 running fine) but the phone got stuck at the CM bootscreen. I tried rebooting multiple times by repeatedly pushing the power button and holding it. After a few failed attempts I pulled out the battery, and after putting the battery back in and trying to power it on the phone did nothing. No matter which buttons I pushed or held in.
I tried plugging it in to the power adapter, but the Power LED's don't even go on (neither the orange or the green one). The battery was at approx. 60% when I rebooted into recovery to install the theme zip, so there should be enough power left in the battery.
When I plug the DZ onto my PC (Windows 7 OS, with eclipse and Android SDK installed and working), the PC looks for a QHSUSB_DLOAD driver. I tried looking for the device through ADB but it doesn't see it.
Please help me guys, I've had the device for only two weeks now.
PS: I'm a noob
Oh dear, that doesn't sound promising. Good luck!! We feel for you.
Anyone knows what steps to undertake to maybe revive the phone. I don't think it's totally dead since it's somehow still being detected by my PC. I just can't find that so called QHSUSB_DLOAD driver.
If I can just somehow get it to connect to ADB then I might be able to get into Hboot or recovery.
Have you checked http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html ?
Perhaps, donno for sure, it could help you
HLeenders said:
Have you checked ***** ?
Perhaps, donno for sure, it could help you
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I hadn't, but already had these drivers on my PC. And before it got bricked my DZ connected fine with the PC (I flashed it using ADB and had setup Hboot and recovery). My PC just can't seem to find any drivers for this so called QHSUSB_DLOAD. It doesn't matter wich folders I choose to look for drivers. Nothing is available through internet either.
im having the same problem ... i tried several times but no luck... no LED... but u shud try pulling off the battery then put it in then press volumeUP+power button ..it will vibrate and red LED will start blinking .. i dont knw wat is it .. i connected it to PC ....windows asked for qualcom MSM driver .... i dont knw wat to do ..nd how to get bootload loader bak :S
if it does this, send it back to HTC.
the eMMC chip has failed (an unfortunately reasonably common situation, happened to me twice so far)
They'll fix it regardless of what roms you had on it etc. (unless you've done some hardware mods) i sent it in with cyanogen mod and s-off, they fixed it anyway
hope this helps!
Lol, I thought my topic died.
Since you guys revived it, might as well tell you what happened. I contacted T-Mobile and sent the Desire Z in for repair and it got repaired for free since I'd only had for two weeks back then .
After I got it back I rooted it and restored a NAND backup and everything 's been working fine since then.
they repaired it or they replaced it ?
desirezbilal said:
they repaired it or they replaced it ?
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They repaired it.
ok thats great
i have 1 stupid question, can you tell me did they open your phone or not
noboby solved this problem?
well i guess i keeep screwing my self over from one problem to another
but after i found a way to install a root without phone being able to load completely i think i bricked my phone here is why
my phone doesnt want to charge n when i try to power on it doesnt vibrate ... but i do see a dim red light when usb is on when its off it goes away n my laptop makes the noise when i connect it
Can you give us a more thorough explanation please. Don't understand properly.
Sent from a Time Lord, using his TARDIS.
Not much info given so i'll start with the most basic question.....
Have you got HTC Sync installed on your pc? And a battery of about 70%?
If you do try installing the latest RUU posted in a few topics under this page....
likewise im bricked
i tried to update my hboot but it frooze n my phone cut off and has no led light when i try to connect thru usb but i hear the beep on my laptop when i try to power nothing or try to boot into hboot nada is that good enough?
can i restore in android recovery? what update file in need to?
bumppppp please help
restore nandroid backup
firth999 said:
restore nandroid backup
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He can't the device won't power on
Sent from my HTC_A510c using Tapatalk
I tried to unlock the bootloader on my device a little over a week ago - bricked it completely.
Had updated HBOOT and everything went fine - 'success' message appeared, etc.... Then my handset died and it wouldn't switch back on; it just flashed on and off repeatedly when powered on and I couldn't stop it, unless I pulled the battery. Couldn't access bootloader, couldn't do anything.
Took it to the local Three shop and they wouldn't touch it. So, I chanced my luck with HTC and was upfront about what had happened, i.e. I'd started the bootloader unlock process using their own HTC Dev software.
I've just got the 'phone back and they had to replace the motherboard. Haven't charged me for picking it up, via UPS, the repair OR sending it back to me, also via UPS.
I had hoped they'd ship back with the bootloader unlocked but they haven't! Doh.
Ah well, can't complain. HTC have definitely earned my gratitude, though, and I'll no doubt stick with them in future. I've just got to remove all the crappy pre-loaded software again.
so i basically have a bricked phone damn i needed it only phone i have n probably will have for awhile i had so much important #'s , notes , ext... im clueless to either tell HTC the truth or just buy another android phone idk :/
any ideas?? is it bricked or not i just need help why isn anyone paying this post any attention .. where is all the pros?
I'll swap your bricked wildfire s with a working desire z?
einstein.frat said:
I'll swap your bricked wildfire s with a working desire z?
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if you would be willing to do so i would greatly apreciate that ... question is what would u do with a bricked wildfire s lol ?? but inbox me so we can work this out.. and what service?
bump!! still need an answer :/
Hello Im new here and Im noob in this stuff.I want to root my Htc wildfire S but im scared that Im going to brick it .So I have a few questions.
If mobile is bricked is it possible to restore old options.(is it possible to save it)
After few ROMS is it possible to restore everything like in begging if I dont like it.
Do you lose your guarantee after rooting.
Please someone help
Recovery
Take out your battery, put it back in Hold volume button down and press power button, does this do anything?
pxed322 said:
so i basically have a bricked phone damn i needed it only phone i have n probably will have for awhile i had so much important #'s , notes , ext... im clueless to either tell HTC the truth or just buy another android phone idk :/
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You haven't even given details. Did you root? Custom ROM?
Try flashing an RUU.
My experience
This weekend I bricked my phone almost also.
Just installed a new version of my ROM to test and then it hanged or so.
When trying power on (normally and with volume down), nothing happened and I got the 3 vibrates.
I removed my SD card and then the phone would boot again
I really hope I don't get that anymore
BTW: my SD card is really old, around 2 years or more (so that may be the cause)
Format your SD card, then see if that works
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