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[Q] Bricked Moto Defy

I have bricked my Motorola Defy.
I have tried flashing a new ROM using RSD Lite (following this guide). It says 'complete' but my phone will not turn on. Sometimes it will just show the Moto boot logo but never fully boot up. I can only open the boot menu.
The ROMs I have tried flashing can be found here (All UK 2.1 at the top of the page).
Background - I got into this mess by attempting to flash the Gingerbread UI ROM (here).
Does anyone have any ideas? I would really appreciated any suggestions.
Thank you.

Probably you have flashed a firmware which cannot be downgraded to eclair. Try to get again in the bootloader and flash a froyo build (the official french one, for instance).
Hope this helps
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but supposedly it is still an éclair ROM so it shouldn't be the reason... best thing would be to flash an original 2.1 rom, I'm sure you can find one on the development section. Make sure to have a fully charged battery though - charge it on someone else's phone, for example.

It's most likely a problem with cache. Power your phone with Volume Down holded, when in recovery press Volume Up + Down, clear data/factory reset, clear cache.

rafaccb said:
but supposedly it is still an éclair ROM so it shouldn't be the reason... best thing would be to flash an original 2.1 rom, I'm sure you can find one on the development section. Make sure to have a fully charged battery though - charge it on someone else's phone, for example.
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Hi, thanks for the reply.
I have tried using the UK ROMs here: h**p:// and-developers. com/sbf:defy but none have worked. Any other suggestions?
Thank you.

antony.ps said:
It's most likely a problem with cache. Power your phone with Volume Down holded, when in recovery press Volume Up + Down, clear data/factory reset, clear cache.
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Hey, unfortunately I cannot get into recovery, only the boot menu. Do you have any other suggestions?

Try flashing a JRDNEM_U3_2.59.0 sbf.

ABC_Universal said:
Try flashing a JRDNEM_U3_2.59.0 sbf.
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Thanks, I will try now. Any particular country?

ABC_Universal said:
Try flashing a JRDNEM_U3_2.59.0 sbf.
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Hey.
I have just tried this using the Australian version from here:h**p://and-developers.com/sbf%3adefy
Unfortunately, it did not work. I still cannot boot the phone.
Thanks for your advice, do you have any other ideas?

Have you tried one of the 2.51 version roms?
like JRDNEM_U3_2.51.1 Blur or
JRDNEM_U3_2.51.0 deblur.
Kaljam

kaljam said:
Have you tried one of the 2.51 version roms?
like JRDNEM_U3_2.51.1 Blur or
JRDNEM_U3_2.51.0 deblur.
Kaljam
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Hi, yes I have tried the UK JRDNEM_U3_2.51.1 from here. Is that the same as blur or deblur?
Thanks.

Just an update...
All ROMS I have tried have installed OK through RSD Lite. The result is always 'Finished' or 'PASS'. But then when I try to turn my phone on, it never boots up.
I really appreciate the replies so far. If anyone has any further ideas, I would love to hear them.
Thank you.

UPDATE
I have just flashed the latest froyo leaked ROM as suggested around the net. Slight progress, the phone now boots to the moto boot logo but no further?
Does anyone have any ideas from here?
Thank you.

you do know that after flashing an sbf it takes a very LONG time to boot the first time! I just hope you are not giving up after a a couple minutes of M logo and pulling the battery or something it literally takes like 5 minutes.
You said you are still able to enter bootmenu? That is not possible after flashing an sbf, as it wipes the bootmenu away! Are you talking about bootloader?
Pull the battery and immediately put it back in while holding vol down. If the phone does not turn on just by inserting the battery then continue to hold vol down and press the power button for about 3 seconds, do not let go of vol down. Continue holding vol down until stock recovery appears.
Once you're in stock recovery press vol up AND vol down at the SAME TIME. Now use the volume toggle to select wipe date/factory reset, use the power button to make your selection, then wipe cache partition. Reboot
Walk away for like 5-10 minutes and check back on it.. Theres no reason it shouldn't work

zyxwvut said:
you do know that after flashing an sbf it takes a very LONG time to boot the first time! I just hope you are not giving up after a a couple minutes of M logo and pulling the battery or something it literally takes like 5 minutes.
You said you are still able to enter bootmenu? That is not possible after flashing an sbf, as it wipes the bootmenu away! Are you talking about bootloader?
Pull the battery and immediately put it back in while holding vol down. If the phone does not turn on just by inserting the battery then continue to hold vol down and press the power button for about 3 seconds, do not let go of vol down. Continue holding vol down until stock recovery appears.
Once you're in stock recovery press vol up AND vol down at the SAME TIME. Now use the volume toggle to select wipe date/factory reset, use the power button to make your selection, then wipe cache partition. Reboot
Walk away for like 5-10 minutes and check back on it.. Theres no reason it shouldn't work
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Hey,
I have just got back from dropping of the phone with T-Mobile - Damm!!!!!!!
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I must have talking about the bootloader. Not the menu. I will head back to the shop in the morning and collect it back off them. Hopefully as it is a Saturday they have not sent it off?
Sooooo frustrating!!!!!!!!
I will update you when I have got it back and tested the above.
Thanks again,
Chris.

LOL I know what you mean... I had instant heart failure the first time I was stuck in a bootloop!!! Thought I wasted $400

I just panicked and gave up.. damm! Loads of people have said that its almost impossible to brick a defy. Fingers crosses thats true!! Lol

First, sorry for my english.
I have a similar problem. I flashed the official french froyo.
First it runs good. But today, two days later, the defy reseted automaticaly.
Several times.
Then I did a wipe. At the end the defy reseted automaticaly and stopped at the motorola logo. I flashed again. At the end of the flash, when RSD boots the defy, it stopped at the logo again. After...it must have been 15 minutes I pulled the battery and tried to get into the bootloader for a wipe.
But I can't enter the bootloader (vol up + power). The motorola logo appears and nothing happens. The last time I waited over 30 minutes.

OK, I have my phone back from T-Mobile...here it goes!!! (fingers crossed).
EDIT
Battery is out - will re-charge with the USB cable trick..

zyxwvut said:
you do know that after flashing an sbf it takes a very LONG time to boot the first time! I just hope you are not giving up after a a couple minutes of M logo and pulling the battery or something it literally takes like 5 minutes.
You said you are still able to enter bootmenu? That is not possible after flashing an sbf, as it wipes the bootmenu away! Are you talking about bootloader?
Pull the battery and immediately put it back in while holding vol down. If the phone does not turn on just by inserting the battery then continue to hold vol down and press the power button for about 3 seconds, do not let go of vol down. Continue holding vol down until stock recovery appears.
Once you're in stock recovery press vol up AND vol down at the SAME TIME. Now use the volume toggle to select wipe date/factory reset, use the power button to make your selection, then wipe cache partition. Reboot
Walk away for like 5-10 minutes and check back on it.. Theres no reason it shouldn't work
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Hey, I am still have issues...
I have charged it up but cannot access recovery. I have tried taking out the battery and putting it back in while holding vol down but no luck. I have also tried holding the power button as well like you said.
I am going to leave it charging even longer to see if that helps.

[Q] Soft-bricked phone after installing custom kernel

Hi Everyone! I'm pretty new to Android stuff in general, and it looks like I soft-bricked my phone while trying to install a custom kernel.
Currently, my phone is running the latest beta of PA (pa_m8-4.6-BETA1-20140902).
I was trying to install custom kernel franco.kernel. Quick googling told me this is possible and the process was to boot into recovery (I'm using TWRP), make a backup, clear cache and dalvik cache, reboot into bootloader and then use fastboot to flash the new boot.img. Was this process correct, or was I already destined for failure?
After doing that whole process, the phone no longer boots properly. When powering on the phone, I see the initial HTC screen popup, and then the screen goes black. This stays this way forever unless I hold power + vol up, which will just restart the phone and the same thing happens. No other keys or key combinations do anything. Holding power or power + vol down does nothing. Holding power + both volume is the same as holding power + vol up. I have also tried holding the power button while holding the phone under a bright light; this has had no effect.
Unfortunately, I can't take a video of this behavior, however it appears this youtube video shows the same behavior:
CPCVecKSPAA (sorry can't post links because I'm new)
The only differences between my behavior and the youtube video are:
1. I am using AT&T instead of international version
2. At the initial screen, I see the red warning text.
Currently, my plan is to wait for the battery to die and then plug it in and try to boot into recovery with power + vol down. Does anyone know anything else worth trying?
Thanks !

Just refresh the rom... That will restore the PA kernel.

I was able to get my phone into bootloader via the following:
1. Plug phone into PC.
2. Press power + vol up + vol down.
3. As soon as charge LED turns off, release vol up.
Once I was in bootloader, I got my phone working by going into recovery and then restoring my backup.
crazymanjinn said:
Hi Everyone! I'm pretty new to Android stuff in general, and it looks like I soft-bricked my phone while trying to install a custom kernel.
Currently, my phone is running the latest beta of PA (pa_m8-4.6-BETA1-20140902).
I was trying to install custom kernel franco.kernel. Quick googling told me this is possible and the process was to boot into recovery (I'm using TWRP), make a backup, clear cache and dalvik cache, reboot into bootloader and then use fastboot to flash the new boot.img. Was this process correct, or was I already destined for failure?
After doing that whole process, the phone no longer boots properly. When powering on the phone, I see the initial HTC screen popup, and then the screen goes black. This stays this way forever unless I hold power + vol up, which will just restart the phone and the same thing happens. No other keys or key combinations do anything. Holding power or power + vol down does nothing. Holding power + both volume is the same as holding power + vol up. I have also tried holding the power button while holding the phone under a bright light; this has had no effect.
Unfortunately, I can't take a video of this behavior, however it appears this youtube video shows the same behavior:
CPCVecKSPAA (sorry can't post links because I'm new)
The only differences between my behavior and the youtube video are:
1. I am using AT&T instead of international version
2. At the initial screen, I see the red warning text.
Currently, my plan is to wait for the battery to die and then plug it in and try to boot into recovery with power + vol down. Does anyone know anything else worth trying?
Thanks !
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Touch screen not responsive after reboot

So my PIxel XL locked up (of course) and I had to soft reset it to come back. This time, however, the touch screen is 100% non responsive. Fingerprint is fine, other buttons are fine, but no touch screen. It happened to be in the middle of Play updates when it locked up - that may be related to the problem.
Anyway, I was going to try and reboot into safe mode,but I cant seem to get it into safe mode without a way to actually turn it off other than another reset, which just boots it again. I got it into recovery mode once but all I could do was reboot.
I;m reasonably savvy with the various tools, but since I can't unlock it I'm not sure where to go next.
And of course I absolutely need a working phone for work (and everything else in the world....) :crying:
Help?

mikeprachar said:
So my PIxel XL locked up (of course) and I had to soft reset it to come back. This time, however, the touch screen is 100% non responsive. Fingerprint is fine, other buttons are fine, but no touch screen. It happened to be in the middle of Play updates when it locked up - that may be related to the problem.
Anyway, I was going to try and reboot into safe mode,but I cant seem to get it into safe mode without a way to actually turn it off other than another reset, which just boots it again. I got it into recovery mode once but all I could do was reboot.
I;m reasonably savvy with the various tools, but since I can't unlock it I'm not sure where to go next.
And of course I absolutely need a working phone for work (and everything else in the world....) :crying:
Help?
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Factory reset.

toknitup420 said:
Factory reset.
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It sounds like his phone won't power off though. How do you get to the bootloader menu when holding down the power button automatically does a soft reboot of the phone? He might need to let the battery drain so the phone actually shuts off before he can get to the bootloader menu to do a factory reset.

Literally ALL android devices can be forced to shutdown or to restart in a similar fashion to pc's. literally just hold the power button.
In the pixels case, holding the power button for 15 consecutive seconds will force the phone to reboot.
press and hold power, start counting to 15, as soon as your about to hit 15 seconds go ahead and mash down the volume down button with it. this should get you into fastboot where you can access recovery or fastboot flash a image.
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It sounds like his phone won't power off though. How do you get to the bootloader menu when holding down the power button automatically does a soft reboot of the phone? He might need to let the battery drain so the phone actually shuts off before he can get to the bootloader menu to do a factory reset.
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This causes a full reboot on my current and previous pixel, not a soft reboot, ive used this method to save my arse many times. i hold it down, and it restarts all the way to the unlocked bootloader screen
I had a situation where as soon as the phone booted i would get all sorts of errors that prevented me from using the phone or even accessing the power menu, and this is the savior.
possibly try holding it more than 15 seconds? maybe let it cycle twice before attempting to enter fastbppt

LG G4 wont boot in recovery mode

Hi,
I have a bootloop issue (I was using LOS official and it crashed when I answered a call) and when I try booting in recovery mode it just starts normally.
I do the Power + Vol down until I see the LG logo then release both for a short time and hold them again but it starts the LOS bootanimation..
What I am doing wrong ?

Emin3ms said:
Hi,
I have a bootloop issue (I was using LOS official and it crashed when I answered a call) and when I try booting in recovery mode it just starts normally.
I do the Power + Vol down until I see the LG logo then release both for a short time and hold them again but it starts the LOS bootanimation..
What I am doing wrong ?
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The G4 has a really stupid way of entering the recovery. I couldn't get in for a while too. Try again making sure you are actually pressing the buttons together at the same time. That means having just one click. They have to be clicked down at the exact same time.
Also, the instructions you've seen (first Google result) may not be the best. This is what I do WITH a custom recovery (TWRP).
1. Power off completely
2. Holding power and volume down at the exact same time until the lg logo appears.
3. Continue holding the volume down button but release the power button for a second.
4. Press and hold power and volume down again.
5. When asked if you want to wipe the device, select yes. This won't wipe the device but will take you to TWRP (if you installed it). Otherwise, it wipes the device.

htr5 said:
The G4 has a really stupid way of entering the recovery. I couldn't get in for a while too. Try again making sure you are actually pressing the buttons together at the same time. That means having just one click. They have to be clicked down at the exact same time.
Also, the instructions you've seen (first Google result) may not be the best. This is what I do WITH a custom recovery (TWRP).
1. Power off completely
2. Holding power and volume down at the exact same time until the lg logo appears.
3. Continue holding the volume down button but release the power button for a second.
4. Press and hold power and volume down again.
5. When asked if you want to wipe the device, select yes. This won't wipe the device but will take you to TWRP (if you installed it). Otherwise, it wipes the device.
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Same Issue here, I was on Genisys opened whatsapp cuause I had a new message and phone rebooted.
after that it just stay on LG logo.
I followed your steps and got to the option of factory reset but after I hit ok with the power button phone just reboots back to the LG logo.
I think mine is the genuine bootloop issue.

htr5 said:
The G4 has a really stupid way of entering the recovery. I couldn't get in for a while too. Try again making sure you are actually pressing the buttons together at the same time. That means having just one click. They have to be clicked down at the exact same time.
Also, the instructions you've seen (first Google result) may not be the best. This is what I do WITH a custom recovery (TWRP).
1. Power off completely
2. Holding power and volume down at the exact same time until the lg logo appears.
3. Continue holding the volume down button but release the power button for a second.
4. Press and hold power and volume down again.
5. When asked if you want to wipe the device, select yes. This won't wipe the device but will take you to TWRP (if you installed it). Otherwise, it wipes the device.
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Ok after a few tries I managed to do it this way

Hi guys, today I've managed to brick my G4 so it doesnt boot neither to recovery nor fastboot nor download mode. It just loops the LG logo as you can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gm0dh6bLp4
Any ideas how to recover?
Thank you

Jirrick said:
Hi guys, today I've managed to brick my G4 so it doesnt boot neither to recovery nor fastboot nor download mode. It just loops the LG logo as you can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gm0dh6bLp4
Any ideas how to recover?
Thank you
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If you don't remember doing anything that might have caused this, then it may be the LG G4 bootloop bug.
I'd put the phone in a zip lock back, in the freezer overnight and then back up all my data as quickly as possible. You're phone may be dead.

htr5 said:
If you don't remember doing anything that might have caused this, then it may be the LG G4 bootloop bug.
I'd put the phone in a zip lock back, in the freezer overnight and then back up all my data as quickly as possible. You're phone may be dead.
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I'm sure I've bricked it while flashing LOS (regular dirty flash of new weekly like i do nearly every week), this time just went something wrong...
As far as I can tell from some YT videos my reboot pattern is different from regular G4 bootloop

Thx for your replies, I managed to revive my phone after whole day of tinkering. Had to overcome some issues so I've posted the solution: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73539738&postcount=1

htr5 said:
The G4 has a really stupid way of entering the recovery. I couldn't get in for a while too. Try again making sure you are actually pressing the buttons together at the same time. That means having just one click. They have to be clicked down at the exact same time.
Also, the instructions you've seen (first Google result) may not be the best. This is what I do WITH a custom recovery (TWRP).
1. Power off completely
2. Holding power and volume down at the exact same time until the lg logo appears.
3. Continue holding the volume down button but release the power button for a second.
4. Press and hold power and volume down again.
5. When asked if you want to wipe the device, select yes. This won't wipe the device but will take you to TWRP (if you installed it). Otherwise, it wipes the device.
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OH MY GOD. It still doesn't work, I am tired and out of my mind, I tried many many times, Idk what else to do. I will try again and again but I am just becoming more mad instead of fixing the problem. DAMMIT

Eldpool said:
OH MY GOD. It still doesn't work, I am tired and out of my mind, I tried many many times, Idk what else to do. I will try again and again but I am just becoming more mad instead of fixing the problem. DAMMIT
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Hmm, wait, ok. I did it finally, you just need to press them simultaneously and then when LG logo appears just release the power button for literally 1 second and then press and continue to hold both of buttons. That's it.

Eldpool said:
Hmm, wait, ok. I did it finally, you just need to press them simultaneously and then when LG logo appears just release the power button for literally 1 second and then press and continue to hold both of buttons. That's it.
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This actually worked!!!!....The 1 Second is crucial in the process, I did it on my first try after reading post

I did the procedure but it went to a page that said clear your phone or not! Just it, and there is no option to clean cache partition or any other

Bricked

My friend has a Pixel 2 XL which has been bootlooping ever since he wiped everything in TWRP. He can't turn it off nor go into fastboot, so I don't know what to do.

If totally unresponsive your only option is a hard reboot. Either pull the battery or let it discharge until it shuts down.
Then reconnect the battery or charge it a bit to see what it does...

I believe that an extremely long press of the power button (around 20 seconds) will force it to shutdown, and then do a proper boot where fastboot should be accessible through the key combination. It is almost impossible to break fastboot (unless there is a hardware error), so don't give up!

Thank you! We tried to install TWRP earlier, but it said the partition (recovery) didn't exist. But when we booted it into recovery, TWRP was magically there. So, he rebooted into the OS, and it was there, magically working again. -Sam
runekock said:
I believe that an extremely long press of the power button (around 20 seconds) ll force it to shutdown, and then do a proper boot where fastboot should be accessible through the key combination. It is almost impossible to break fastboot (unless there is a hardware error), so don't give up!
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If totally unresponsive your only option is a hard reboot. Either pull the battery or let it discharge until it shuts down.
Then reconnect the battery or charge it a bit to see what it does...
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