Hi all, I managed to brick my Optimus G E975 (international version) - the inside of the phone shows E975K.
I have it running the stock ROM for over a year (rooted) and lately I am looking into flashing with custom ROM (KitKat). I have not even flash the phone, I just installed ROM Manager app (pro) and used it to boot to recovery. It won't boot to recover, so I use ROM Manager app to install TWRP (to replace clockmodwork). I booted to recovery and I got the fastboot but could not do anything so I rebooted to normal and install clockmodwork again. There was an option to Flash clockmodwork which I think I chose and I assumed that was installing clockmodwork. But when I booted to recovery, my phone never turned on anymore.
While I got my phone working, using ROM Manager I tried few times to make a back up of the current ROM but it was never succeeded. The phone just rebooted normally.
I opened my phone and disconnect the battery as some people suggested. But I still can't turn on the phone. I got flashing red led when I press the power button (with or without the vol up/down).
Please help. I hope I can unbrick my phone as the warranty is over.
Any info and help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Hi guys, hope you can help me I`ve tried everything I can.
Following a mishap yesterday, my Note 2 which was successfully running Resurrection Remix Android 5.1 for the past 6 months has now been bricked, i think is the term.
My son accidentally updated the RR5.1 to a newer version then the phone went low batt. I restarted the phone and got the message Encryption Unsuccessful --> Reset your phone, which i did. (I read somewhere afterwards that it might have been a mistake to hit reset.)
Now my phone is stuck in Teamwin screen mode which is flashing and it does nothing. I restarted the phone into Android Odin mode, Vol- + Home + Power button and it says "Downloading.... Do not turn off target!!" which has been now showing on my phone for more than 5 hours.
To top this wee problem, since I could use Odin on my laptop to mount a Teamwin Loader and flash a new ClockworkMod 5.1.1 OS on it which I have BUT...............and heres the big BUT.....
None of my USB ports recognize my phone, installed 2 versions of the Samsung USB drivers and still nothing. So WHAT can I do other than what I already have been doing.
And a reminder before anyone tells me to enter this and that on my keypad...... PHONE STUCK IN ODIN and TEAMWIN splash screen.
Cheers and hope someone gets back to me,
Hello everyone, so I've ran into a big issue and need your help.
So I've been using my phone when the apps just started crashing normally (I run LineageOS 03/13 build so it's not perfect yet). I decided to restart my phone and after that it just doesn't want to work any longer. I can't access Recovery Mode, when I try to turn it on or plug it into charging literally nothing happens, phone just vibrates and that's it. It doesn't even show the boot screen where it says Galaxy S4 Mini. I can however access Download Mode. I've tried to install stock firmware through Odin but it's just stuck I don't know what happened.
I hope some of you could help me out. Thanks in advance.
Hello, everyone!
The problem is that when booted, the phone only vibrates and turns off immediately. The screen never enables, LED for charging never enables. When connected to a charger, just vibrates. Tried to follow the steps here : installed the Soc driver, plugged the phone, tried to power it off - device manager recognized the phone for a couple of seconds and then it's gone.
Long story short: I tried to install official firmware upgrade using TWRP > Install > .zip. The installation was going on for a couple of minutes and then the screen blacked out. Since then, the phone does not boot.
So, I got bored of my Android 5 and decided to install a custom ROM, but I had to upgrade official firmware before that.
At first, I dove into how to install custom ROM tutorials, so I did the rooting first:
I downloaded a BootLoaderUnlocker program from the official Asus website and unlocked the BL. Then, I followed a tutorial for one-click-root, and succeded. Then I installed TWRP and flashed the Recovery to the latest available img for my phone and tried to install the Lineage OS 14.1 but got status 7 error, meaning something is incompatible.
This post states, that in order to install Lineage OS 14.1 I have to have a firmware at least MM 4.21.40.xx which is Android 6, so I went to the official Asus website and downloaded the Firmware upgrade. Since, I probably had the wrong BL at that point, I flashed the bootloader with TWRP for Z00A (Lollipop) 2.8.7.3 from here, which is the same website from which the post suggest to download a BL for MM (Android 6). I thought, since I currently have the Lolipop, should install the BL for that, just to be sure. Then I started the firmware upgrade, which rebooted the phone into the BL, I didn't think, and just pressed Normal Boot and the phone booted as usual in the old Android. Then I tried to initiate the instalation again but couldn't (it's supposed to auto-detect the file in the storage root), so I got an idea to just boot the Recovery, maybe it will continue. So, I did that, and the TWRP showed up (I forgot about it already and thought that the instalation would just continue), so I just pressed Install and chose the firmware upgrade zip manualy. The installation was going on for a couple of minutes and then the screen blacked out.
Since then, the phone does not boot. If I try to, it vibrates like it is going to boot, but then nothing happens (not even a logo).
I even tried to disconnect the battery: removed all the screws, removed the back panel and manually disconnected it. When I put it back the phone vibrated like it was going to boot, but nothing happened again.
P.S. I tried to boot into the Recovery, but that just does not work, and even did not work before the firmware upgrade (I googled, that I must press power and volume up and hold until the logo appears, but that doesn't happen).
upd: plugged into the charger, periodically shows the battery icon on the screen.
upd: I went to a service and the dude said I might have screwed up the `preLoader`, so some might say it's a disastah
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3452785
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So, I went to a service and turns out I messed up the PreLoader, that boots the BootLoader. Sometimes this cannot be restored and costs a bunch of money to replace the memory block, but I got lucky and got the phone repaired.
P.S. Do not install official firmware with programs like TWRP, use only your manufacturer's SoftWare
As you see my redmagic 5g was rooted when i bought it from my friend he told me that it is rooted but i bought it anyway.
i tried to update my system but i couldn't because it was rooted. Then i tried to update it manually from the recovery mode. I followed the instructions in the official site from redmagic but i wiped everything but mistake including the system it self which means the system is gone and i couldn't boot the phone. I could only proceed to that menu that told me to boot to recovery mode, fast boot, edload etc...
i went to edload but the screen turned black and nothing shows i turned off the phone and turned it on back hoping it will turn on but no response the screen still black but when I connect it to computer usb connecting sound appear but no files shown.
Any help with my problem please I tried to contact the support for this problem but they keep asking me the same questions ?
you need to downgrade the system as i think it is now bricked.
majed96 said:
As you see my redmagic 5g was rooted when i bought it from my friend he told me that it is rooted but i bought it anyway.
i tried to update my system but i couldn't because it was rooted. Then i tried to update it manually from the recovery mode. I followed the instructions in the official site from redmagic but i wiped everything but mistake including the system it self which means the system is gone and i couldn't boot the phone. I could only proceed to that menu that told me to boot to recovery mode, fast boot, edload etc...
i went to edload but the screen turned black and nothing shows i turned off the phone and turned it on back hoping it will turn on but no response the screen still black but when I connect it to computer usb connecting sound appear but no files shown.
Any help with my problem please I tried to contact the support for this problem but they keep asking me the same questions ?
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When the system is not written correctly it soft bricks the phone.
when you pressed edload, the screen goes black, because EDload needs a PC. the screen is not active during EDload mode.
you can get the unbrick tool from my thread. use it to restore the phone while in EDload mode.
then when you've gotten the phone to boot. install the latest rom for your region from the links in my thread also.