I have a droid 4 that ended up with bad software. Simple issue is I got no bootloader, no power, no nada. When I connect a regular USB i get a green light in the corner but no activity and no detect. Needless to say, bootloader is corrupt at this point. Sent it back to Moto Repair and they claim physical damage (though I know for a fact there is none) so I'm looking to Flash the bootloader myself. I'm aware it's going to have to be a low level NAND flash. Anyone familiar with this process? Computer does not detect. Does anyone have the latest A.074 Bootloader file I can grab? Need to get this guy running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Oh, and yes I have a factory programming cable if I can make use of it somehow......
queberican351 said:
I have a droid 4 that ended up with bad software. Simple issue is I got no bootloader, no power, no nada. When I connect a regular USB i get a green light in the corner but no activity and no detect. Needless to say, bootloader is corrupt at this point. Sent it back to Moto Repair and they claim physical damage (though I know for a fact there is none) so I'm looking to Flash the bootloader myself. I'm aware it's going to have to be a low level NAND flash. Anyone familiar with this process? Computer does not detect. Does anyone have the latest A.074 Bootloader file I can grab? Need to get this guy running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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How did the bootloader get corrupted? I was under the impression the phone would not allow you to flash another bootloader unless it was signed... You should ask Moto what was physically damaged, if it was a simple flash they should be able to fix it easily for you.
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That was my thoughts exactly. But they claim liquid damage. I've since then opened the phone and inspected all the stickers....no sign of liquid damage. I would think a 2 minute bootloader flash wouldn't constitute this much despair (on Motorola's part) but such is life. Now I'm just looking to get the first couple Mb in a device dump so I can write it to an sdcard and attempt to boot from there and repair the bootloader. It has to be a device dump from a D4 running the a.074 bootloader. Any takers?
You could try looking in the fastboot files, they're on the Droid 4 development boards, they have both Gingerbread ones
D4 6.16.215 MBM files
Here are the D4 6.16.215 mbm.bin and other low level boot files from the leaked OTA update.zip.
I don't think they are going to help you given that there is no way that I am aware of to boot from the sdcard on a Motorola device.
There is a USB boot option for loading a factory I/O image(pre firmware basic input/output interface), but I don't know how you would initialize it nor do I have the factory image for the D4.
It is most likely a touchpoint on the board that needs to be shorted while the factory cable is inserted and that would bypass the EMMC and initialize the USB boot.
I am just guessing here...good luck!
if you somehow unlock it too, let us know what you did
SD Card boot didn't work and couldn't get it to detect on my windows or linux pc's. Therefore OMAPboot was out of the question. So I parted it out. I've acquired another D4 and I'm curious as to what if any advancements have been made on getting them to work on US GSM carriers? If we're still stuck I'm more than willing to jump into Dev on this and open to suggestions. My new D4 is running bone stock GB. I'm going to keep looking into the SD or USB possible fix's for hardbricks.
Thanx for the replies and thanx to [mbm], Jonpry, PhareignQ (think I mightta spelled that wrong), and HashCode for their knowledge, help, and suggestions along the way.
Hey man! You're the second one with same issue. I'm looking to buy new motherboard for droid 4 with same crapped bootloader + broken cdrom partition
For those who is interesting in, motorola factory cable doesn't work with droid 4 for some strange reason.
I can attest to the fact that the factory cable does, indeed, work with the D4 just like the Razr and other Motorola models.
I am not sure why yours doesn't or what condition your phone is in at this point, but the factory cable will power the device directly, bypassing the battery/charging circuit and allow you to flash it as long as the bootloader and mbmloader are not corrupt.
In that case, when the mbmloader fails, then nothing happens on the device at all unless a factory cable is connected, then it will flash the LED white just once as the cable is inserted and then loop continuously trying to load an interface and fails. The screen does nothing and the device is dead except pressing all 3 hardware buttons will arrest then restart the cycle of failed interface initialization once released.
I have a Razr in this state that I unfortunately attempted to flash some unknown files we received that we foolishly believed may have been an OEM bootloader unlock.
If you flash a corrupt image to the mbmloader the device is toast, AFAIK, although I do believe they have ways to recover them and in the past those methods often involved shorting a set of pads on the board with a paperclip while inserting the factory cable, initializing a timed event where the EMMC was bypassed and and factory I/O file could be loaded via a USB boot option.
I don't know if any of these methods could actually save any of our phones in this state, but I would like to believe its possible!
I just wanted to clarify about the factory cable.
Yup, what @Cellzealot said. I've removed the battery from the D4 and the factory cable works as intended. To be frank I had a moment of ignorance. I had just gotten my D4 (used) and was attempting to try and find a solution for the US GSM band unlock. In reading through the post about the Bionic I found that there was alot of talk about needing to be on bootloader 0A.72 or something to the fact of having success with that. The kid I got it from had already installed the ICS leak. So I paid no attention to the fact that the bootloader on MY phone was 0A.74....so I opened RSD and attempted to send mbm and mbmloader from 0A.72. It failed and that was the last thing ever "sent" to that phone. As soon as I disconnected it the phone powered down and never did anything after that.......
So I pursued the Boot from SD theory to no success, though I believe it is plausible, however probably still required a short to enable it. And Linux and Windows wouldn't even detect the OMAP4430 (as I've heard some people had luck with). So OMAPboot (boot from usb) was out too.
Finally got another D4, and being the phone soldier I try to be, Went right back to town attempting to get this thing to run on AT&T. So far no luck. I've been trying radio's and rom's from different devices and brandings that are running 2.3.6 (I left this one on the stock Gingerbread)
Willing to undertake any suggestions as long as "bootloader" is nowhere in the equation,
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Yup, what @Cellzealot said. I've removed the battery from the D4 and the factory cable works as intended. To be frank I had a moment of ignorance. I had just gotten my D4 (used) and was attempting to try and find a solution for the US GSM band unlock. In reading through the post about the Bionic I found that there was alot of talk about needing to be on bootloader 0A.72 or something to the fact of having success with that. The kid I got it from had already installed the ICS leak. So I paid no attention to the fact that the bootloader on MY phone was 0A.74....so I opened RSD and attempted to send mbm and mbmloader from 0A.72. It failed and that was the last thing ever "sent" to that phone. As soon as I disconnected it the phone powered down and never did anything after that.......
So I pursued the Boot from SD theory to no success, though I believe it is plausible, however probably still required a short to enable it. And Linux and Windows wouldn't even detect the OMAP4430 (as I've heard some people had luck with). So OMAPboot (boot from usb) was out too.
Finally got another D4, and being the phone soldier I try to be, Went right back to town attempting to get this thing to run on AT&T. So far no luck. I've been trying radio's and rom's from different devices and brandings that are running 2.3.6 (I left this one on the stock Gingerbread)
Willing to undertake any suggestions as long as "bootloader" is nowhere in the equation,
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Any solution on black screen and broken bootloader?
Here I have black screen with AC adapter connected. If I connect the phone to PC, I have green led indicator, but still black screen. Buttons have no reactions.
Anything new? Two users on a German bulletin board do have the same issue. I will get one Droid 4 of them in the next few days to have a look at it. But this thread sounds like there is no solution?
http://db.tt/u31VG45D
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055839
The first link is to the most recent level 4 bootloader repair kit that we have for the Maserati/Droid 4 which is 0a.6c from pre ICS builds.
It is possible you may be able to use the pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin from those files with the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin from a more current build to restore your device.
Again, these files are a year old now and may not work but you have little to lose in trying.
Use the method in the second link in Linux to try to restore your bootloader with the omapflash-lnx binary from that thread.
This is very likely to fail if the device has a recent firmware build on it but we don't have any of these repair kits for the newer bootloaders.
Good luck!
Thanks.
I got one of these phones. But it isn't even recognized via USB So I can't use these tools...
Is there any way to flash it via JTAG/ISP/...? Maybe this is the last chance - or this phone is dead ^^
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Hi guys, I want to change my phone bootloader and also to a friend of mine. But I have some nasty experience with bootloader upgrading so I though that a discussion here would be good, so everyone know what to do in the future.
For example, I use ODIN for firmware upgrades, but as you all know it has a quite big rate of failures, caused by different reasons. On the other hand, we have Heimdall which is supposed to be safer and has more options than ODIN (bootloader flash only and such things).
The point is, while we are in download mode, and the flashing of bootloader fails, after restart... well... there won;t be a start anymore. The phone will be dead. What I was thinking is: what if we don't thick restart on ODIN or Heimdall and if flashing the boot loader fails, the phone will remain in download mode. Couldn't this be the opportunity to try again? After all, all we need is download mode.
We could try second time with Heimdall, or another full firmware with odin... what do you say guys?
Remaining in download mode gives us a second chance to bootloader writing?
Sorry if I've been really fuzzy in my ideas but I'm very sleepy right now.
Crysis21 said:
Remaining in download mode gives us a second chance to bootloader writing?
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Unfortunately no. If a flash fails it's because the phone has stopped responding to commands. The phone won't continue responding to commands until you've booted into download mode again. It's for this very reason I don't actually have a "no reboot" option for Heimdall, it would be pretty much pointless.
However luckily if you're just flashing a secondary bootloader the device can still be booted up using a custom jig. This is because devices store a backup secondary bootloader that can be used if the first one is corrupt. A custom jig seems to cause the device to boot using this backup secondary bootloader.
However as far as I can tell if you stuff up the primary bootloader then you're toast. This would require a JTAG fix. I'm not actually sure if this has ever even happened though.
The thing is, 4 months ago I ended up on JTAG. After messing the bootloader I managed to get download mode with custom JIG. But after that I don;t know exactly the mistakes I've made, but I ended up with a dead phone. No JIG working, nothing. So... yes it happened. I am toasted already with bootloader changing) that's why I was asking if remaining in Download mode helps with somthing.
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Sorry I should have been clear. I know there are cases where users have hard-bricked their phone and not even a custom jig would help so JTAG was required.
During the early stages of Heimdall's development, prior to the custom jig discovery, I bricked my device to the point of not being able to charge. This was because either boot.bin or params.lfs failed to flash due to a bug in a alpha release of Heimdall. We didn't know about custom jigs then so I was unable to actually test if it was recoverable.
However, all the hard-brick cases that I've heard sufficient detail about, turn out to be a result of users flashing a primary bootloader that was not designed for their device. So what I should have said is that I'm not sure if anyone has ever actually failed to sucessfully flash a primary bootloader (other than me with an alpha build).
Anyway unfortunately there's not a whole lot that can be done to 100% remove the risk of bricking. Either the secondary bootloader USB control software is buggy or the hardware itself is crap and sometimes it doesn't get on well with some people's USB ports. Unless we come up with a way to easily replace the bootloaders from the device itself then the best thing you can do is use a reliable USB port.
Thanks for the information...
Ok guys ... this is the problem ...:crying:
I have (had) a Droid Bionic running ics leak 232 in Brazil (GSM/UMTS ... thanks to xda developers - "bionic in t mobile" thread).
While messing around with the phone connected to linux (baaad idea) at some point I deleted the bootloader ("happy finger" + lack of knowledge os linux).
Now, my phone doesnt power up and RSD Lite doesnt recognize it when connected but, when I connect it to the PC, a green light lits at the top right corner of the phone and Windows recognize it, at the device manager, as a OMAP4430 USB under TI Board tab. This leads me to think that some kind of life still exists down there or, the hardware is alive and waiting for the right software.
After a long quest for a solution, I found this: "forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f634/unbrick-dead-samsung-gt-i9250-galaxy-nexus-gt-i9100g-via-usb-cable-freeeeeeeeeeee-1465412/index9.html".
Now I think this is the way out of this mess (is the same hardware, OMAP platform from Texas Instrument), if exists any, but this was made for Samsung, by Samsung technicians, and doesnt apply to Motorola. :crying: again.
So, is there anyone who can help me, or have any idea of what can be done (other than trow it away or use it as a paper weight)?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Regards
I saw you haven't had any replies yet. My roommate had a similar problem, he managed to mount his system partition automatically and thought his SD card was partitioned into 10 or more partitions.
So he reformated the mount and had a dead phone right after, said he only got a small white light on his notification light when plugged in.
I didn't get a chance to check it out before he took it to Verizon for a refurb, so sadly I'm not much help. Just thought I'd input anything I knew since you still had an empty thread. Hope it comes back alive!
Sent from my kitchen toaster.
Have you tried using the command line version of moto-fastboot? It might work, but might not work... I think you need to boot into fastboot mode, but I could be wrong... Either way it's worth a try.
Also, does anything happen when you try to hold down the vol+ and VOL- buttons when powering on the phone?
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
its dead
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Have you tried using the command line version of moto-fastboot? It might work, but might not work... I think you need to boot into fastboot mode, but I could be wrong... Either way it's worth a try.
Also, does anything happen when you try to hold down the vol+ and VOL- buttons when powering on the phone?
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
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Thank you for your answer danifunker;
The phone is dead. Pressing buttons does nothing. The only thing that happens is to lit the notification green light at the top right corner of the screen WHEN a plug it in my PC and windows keep telling me this is a unknown device. I unsuccessfully used OMAPFlash, but installing the usb drives that came with it, when I plug it to the PC, windows device manager shows me a new device "OMAP4430 USB" under a new tab "TI Board" , whitch is not recognized by RDS lite or adb or fastboot. Is only recognized by OMAPFlash. If you dont know about OMAPFlash, I found it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701471 , but this procedure is for a Samsung, witch uses the same platform (OMAP4430), but I dont have the right configurations for the Droid Bionic.
Just the same
chrisp6825 said:
I saw you haven't had any replies yet. My roommate had a similar problem, he managed to mount his system partition automatically and thought his SD card was partitioned into 10 or more partitions.
So he reformated the mount and had a dead phone right after, said he only got a small white light on his notification light when plugged in.
I didn't get a chance to check it out before he took it to Verizon for a refurb, so sadly I'm not much help. Just thought I'd input anything I knew since you still had an empty thread. Hope it comes back alive!
Sent from my kitchen toaster.
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Thank you for your interest.
If you have any further notice about your roommate problem, please let me know.
And, if you manage to post a reply from your kitche toaster, I am sure you will be able to help in this problem. looking forward for that. :laugh:
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Thank you for your interest.
If you have any further notice about your roommate problem, please let me know.
And, if you manage to post a reply from your kitche toaster, I am sure you will be able to help in this problem. looking forward for that. :laugh:
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Can you explain exactly how you deleted the bootloader off of the Bionic? Knowing EXACTLY (what you ran, what you typed) what you did will help us help you.
As an aside, I had no idea there was a SGSII-OMAP variant, but I am not big on the Samsung phones, just assumed they've only been using their own SoCs for a while now...
Hi podspi.
Sorry for the delay.
As a matter of fact, wasnt me that bricked the phone. A friend o mine tryed to flash a gelly beam version, and did it via Fastboot,, under Linux (of witch I know almost notingh).
He told me that the problem was that he made:
fastboot erase mbm
and then
fastboot reboot bootloader
and so the bootloader was lost. He missed a step.
Any help will be greatly aprecieted.
Regards
IOW, since the mbm has been erased, and the mbmflashable hasn't been flashed, there is no way to get it into the bootmenu sceen anymore, right?
Hmmm. Let me ask some other folks too.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Infinity Running Tapatalk.
I wonder if a factory cable would work to get it to flash mode? Why would you even mess with the bootloader trying to install ICS? You do that through recovery, not fastboot.
I was on ICS ... This was an attempt to get it to JellyBeen ... I, also, dont know why. I was perfectly happy with ICS working in GSM/WCDMA. This is why I am so sad ... It was a very stupid thing to do ... As a matter of fact, I will get a factory cable, but I dont think this is gonna help. Anyways, I am keeping it by side to remember me not to mess with things that are working fine. I'm kind of losing hope that it can fixed.
Regards
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I was on ICS ... This was an attempt to get it to JellyBeen ... I, also, dont know why. I was perfectly happy with ICS working in GSM/WCDMA. This is why I am so sad ... It was a very stupid thing to do ... As a matter of fact, I will get a factory cable, but I dont think this is gonna help. Anyways, I am keeping it by side to remember me not to mess with things that are working fine. I'm kind of losing hope that it can fixed.
Regards
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I think we need to figure out how you flash mbm back onto there. Actually, I think it's mbmloader that you need on there...
mbm = Motorola Boot Manager (?) maybe.
After reading this page: http://omappedia.org/wiki/Bootloader_Project
I believe, mbm = uboot, mbmloader = x-loader
Just found this page... http://www.droid-developers.org/wiki/How_to_load_mbmloader_from_SD_card
download the SBF and grab the mbmloader for ICS. See if you can get a little further...
SamuriHL sHouse of Bionic restored mine when all I could get was fastboot.
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It won't help this. It needs to be flashed at the omap level and since moto isn't about to release the configuration files for the Bionic you can consider this one permanently bricked.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk 2
I tend to agree with SamuriHL. I was thinking that the configuration souldn't be so diferent than others (like Samsung) that uses the same platform (omap). I know that it's naive, but what else could I do. Also, I need the signed files for x-loader and u-boot, of witch I think danifunker is right, this means mbm and mbmloader, that I have, but they came in bin format and not image format (.img). I will try to convert them to .img, but I am at the end of my resources (not that they are so many), and will give up shortly. At this point (giving up), I will buy another cellphone AND IT WONT BE A MOTOROLA, Probably a HTC or a Samsung. But I will keep Bionic at my desktop, as a paperweight, to remind me how I liked it, how I mess things up.
Anyways, if I manage to solve this problem, I will post here, and I wish to thank everyone that spare their time to try to help people. If anyone have any suggestion, I'll be glad to follow.
If you modify them in any way they'll no longer be signed and won't work. Someone else already went through several weeks of trying to fix their phone that had similar issues. He's well connected and still couldn't get the necessary files. Don't necessarily give up on Moto, though...it's not their fault we're stuck with locked bootloaders. Blame VZW for that one. Even Samsung was forced to lock the S3 on VZW. Things may change some day. We'll have to wait and see.
You can always get RAZR i with the unlockable bootloader! that might make things a bit easier...
IT'S DONE!!!!!!!!!
IT'S DONE ....... IT IS ALIVE AGAIN :highfive:
Guys. My phone is alive again. Thanks to FRAGULINA and PICGRABBER for their unvaluable help. It is now running GSM with data enabled (3G) with ICS 232, rooted, thanks to FRAGULINA and HTCFlyerX ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31101192&highlight=build+prop#post31101192).
Well, I'm attaching 2 zip files. One is omapflash and the other is "THE FILES", and instructions on the "release_notes.txt". This works on LINUX.
And works like a charm. Took me (much) less than 5 minutes to get me from a dead phone to bootloader fastboot. And the rest is history. Well known procedures.
Thanks to all of you that helped or tryed to help.
Enjoy.
To those who have an interest in new challanges (as I know you are), i'm opening a new quest and would appreciate your thoughts.
I have at hand an atrix 2 and I want to find where in hell is the subsidy code writen at and how can I read it. This new quest will be at the proper location at the atrix 2 forum.
I think we won this challange. Lets go for another.
Any doubts I am available to help.
Regards.
Holy.....uh, well, WOW! I'm in awe here on this one. WELL DONE!!!!!!!
SamuriHL said:
Holy.....uh, well, WOW! I'm in awe here on this one. WELL DONE!!!!!!!
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Can we use this method to flash any firmware to the phone? Lets say you load the latest ICS, maybe we use this method which restores the most original bootloader to the phone and then flash to any version?
Which version did you fastboot to?
pjcw said:
IT'S DONE ....... IT IS ALIVE AGAIN :highfive:
Guys. My phone is alive again. Thanks to FRAGULINA and PICGRABBER for their unvaluable help. It is now running GSM with data enabled (3G) with ICS 232, rooted, thanks to FRAGULINA and HTCFlyerX ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31101192&highlight=build+prop#post31101192).
Well, I'm attaching 2 zip files. One is omapflash and the other is "THE FILES", and instructions on the "release_notes.txt". This works on LINUX.
And works like a charm. Took me (much) less than 5 minutes to get me from a dead phone to bootloader fastboot. And the rest is history. Well known procedures.
Thanks to all of you that helped or tryed to help.
Enjoy.
To those who have an interest in new challanges (as I know you are), i'm opening a new quest and would appreciate your thoughts.
I have at hand an atrix 2 and I want to find where in hell is the subsidy code writen at and how can I read it. This new quest will be at the proper location at the atrix 2 forum.
I think we won this challange. Lets go for another.
Any doubts I am available to help.
Regards.
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This is unbelievable. After talking with you on Gtalk, I thought this was a permanent brick. Thanks for the files...I have a guy on gtalk right now who can benefit from these.
Actually my friend bricked his phone, he flashed the 5.1 bootloader and radio.then somehow he flasheed back to 5.0.1 stock. then he flashed Euphoria again. The phone rebooted fine and he went to sleep. Then woke up and found out his phone was dead. And all buttons combo didn't work at all. It's just a piece of dead body.When plugging into the PC, it shows qhsusb_bulk. There were devices that had same problems but they managed to unbrick it, But those methods don't apply to Shamu. Odd thing is I did the same thing so far my Nexus 6 is fine .I've started worrying, tho. We bought it from amazon.fr and I'm sure i dont want to send it back all the way from China to France.
Also , i read some dudes encountered the same problem after flashing Cm12 with 5.1 BL. I really need your help.
I tried Nexus Root Toolkit to flash the factory image, it didnt work. It's still using the fastboot, and ofc i don't get to go there.
I've installed the Qualcomm_QHSUSB_driver, but it doesn't seem to fix anything.
no one?
Mine has done the same thing. Went to flash 5.1 nexus image from the google dev site. The flash did boot and radio and failed size on system ( even re-downloaded). I plug my N6 into my linux machine and this what I get on lsusb "Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)". I am also in need of help.
This updates been a nightmare
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Mine has done the same thing. Went to flash 5.1 nexus image from the google dev site. The flash did boot and radio and failed size on system ( even re-downloaded). I plug my N6 into my linux machine and this what I get on lsusb "Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)". I am also in need of help.
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So you're like me, no way to enter bootloader right? I've seen some other phones with the same problems but they figured a way out to solve it. I don't know we'll get that
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This updates been a nightmare
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I'm not sure it has anything to do with the update. My friend didn't flash the 5.1 google factory image . He flashed the 5.1 BL on a 5.0.2 aosp based rom then went back to stock 5.0.1 then flashed the same 5.0.2 aosp rom. Now it ends up dead.
This happened on Samsung devices too and it was a emmc issue, so the internal drive among others was no longer readable and writable and hardware like buttons was not working either. Unless someone comes with the golden tip you`ll have to turn it in for repair. Good luck guys
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So you're like me, no way to enter bootloader right? I've seen some other phones with the same problems but they figured a way out to solve it. I don't know we'll get that
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doing some reading and it seams to be a broken bootloader.
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doing some reading and it seams to be a broken bootloader.
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I'm also a g2 owner, some just broke their devices and ended up sth similar. But they managed to unbrick it. I don't know if we stand a chance to bring it back to life.
I'm still stuck. Any progress ?
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doing some reading and it seams to be a broken bootloader.
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Any progress? I tried several ways and none of them worked
I had to RMA
randy6644 said:
Actually my friend bricked his phone, he flashed the 5.1 bootloader and radio.then somehow he flasheed back to 5.0.1 stock. then he flashed Euphoria again. The phone rebooted fine and he went to sleep. Then woke up and found out his phone was dead. And all buttons combo didn't work at all. It's just a piece of dead body.When plugging into the PC, it shows qhsusb_bulk. There were devices that had same problems but they managed to unbrick it, But those methods don't apply to Shamu. Odd thing is I did the same thing so far my Nexus 6 is fine .I've started worrying, tho. We bought it from amazon.fr and I'm sure i dont want to send it back all the way from China to France.
Also , i read some dudes encountered the same problem after flashing Cm12 with 5.1 BL. I really need your help.
I tried Nexus Root Toolkit to flash the factory image, it didnt work. It's still using the fastboot, and ofc i don't get to go there.
I've installed the Qualcomm_QHSUSB_driver, but it doesn't seem to fix anything.
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Something should be able to be done using QPST (i.e., to force flash the bootloader), but that is above my level of knowledge.
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Something should be able to be done using QPST (i.e., to force flash the bootloader), but that is above my level of knowledge.
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I'm going through similar with a dead Nexus 7. I think the eMMC died in it though, as it just went out without any tinkering. No sign of life on the device, but is picked up as a Qualcomm modem port and detected by QPST in download mode. I don't have/can't find the hex files required by QPST to flash it though.
I theorize that if a working device can be put in QPST "diag" mode, then QPST will allow exporting the storage contents in a flashable hex file, and that file could be used to restore the boot partitions on the dead device. I haven't been able to find information about this "diag"nostic mode, however.
Same issue guys, Upgraded to 5.1 OTA rooted and flashed cm12 tried to reboot. Nothing. Stuck in "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" QPST will recognize it in Download mode. If we can get these Hex files I will give it a shot. Thanks!
http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7863761
found sth here dont know if its useful, all written in Chine
randy6644 said:
http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7863761
found sth here dont know if its useful, all written in Chine
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Cant find much relating to our issue but there may be relevant info there, we cant download or make an account on that site due to our american IP anyway.
i will upload them when im home. i read sth about qc diag interface,qcn stuff. but this thread is a tutorial for cracking the China Telecom band. Dont know if theres anything useful
randy6644 said:
i will upload them when im home. i read sth about qc diag interface,qcn stuff. but this thread is a tutorial for cracking the China Telecom band. Dont know if theres anything useful
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If you are able to export the Hex file with everything we need to restore through QPST you will be saving alot of peoples ass as the number of hard bricks are growing hourly now! Or at least the threads being started about hard bricks are! Appreciate the help brother. AdA
im not sure if i can find the useful files you need. just trying my best to contact that op , if he knows sth. my ass will ne saved. but its 1 .30 am in China.i dont think hes awake. i will keep an eye on that.
I've been running NG3 rooted for 2 years w/ T-Mobile. Due to recent changes on the Tmobile network (they dropped 1900 and switched to b12 = 700a which the 870 can't acquire) I've been forced to move to ATT. When their SIM was loaded I could get 4gLTE so data and text worked, but couldn't make or receive any calls. The signal would drop entirely - no 4gLTE or bars.
I decided I'd try to reload the full NE4. The PC wouldn't recognize the phone via USB (new and old drivers tried). I tried 3 PC's same issue device unknown regardless of Samsung driver age. My wife has the same phone and same issue. Since USB wasn't being recognized (nor on my wifes 870) ODIN was out so I booted and tried loading via the SD card. Well I apparently bricked my phone attempting this. It won't boot beyond the SAMSUNG logo (thereabouts). I can't access the phone via USB. I can however use the bootloader (?) (v-up + pwer + home) and attempt to load from the SD card. I have several stock roms but I receive errors attempting to load these - " footer wrong" and " signature verification failure". I tried Downloading them again but md5 is good on them all
I'm not having fun... . Does anyone know how I can get my phone to load from the boot screen without these errors? I need to get my wife's 870 working too. Her phone can text but no calls (same scenario only I didn't mess here's up just yet). The boot screen on my phone still shows last up date NG3.
I 'm not concerned about being rooted or which version I land on anymore, I'd just to get it working again. Any help is much appreciated - thank you
for what it's worth talking to myself ... the USB cable I've been using for years and has always worked. Tried it on my wife's phone and didn't work but still thinking it's the PC unable to load the USB drivers. Bought 2 new phones. Tried the cable on the new phone - no drivers. Tried the new USB cable that came with the new phone and it worked fine. Used the new USB cable on my soft bricked phone and drivers loaded. I was able to use Odin to upload the OF3 revision to my G870 successfully. Now I'm looking for a way to root it.
any links please?
You can search for "wonder share mobile go" and find how to root with it.
OMG - That was amazing. It rebooted a few times but "SUCCESS". I can't believe all the steps we go through on XDA (and I love XDA) to root a phone but this was 1 click = done. The OF3 can easily be rooted with this software. I uninstalled it (cause I don't trust it) but the root remained and I'm rocking and fat happy.... AND the KNOX = 0
ON THE OTHER HAND - the software soft bricked my Moto G5 Plus. It's not all it's cracked up to be. I contacted the company and it really seemed to me the person responding couldn't read English. Their responses were incoherent and didn't approach the subject at all. Like they were from another country. Yeah.. one of those companies who rely on foreigners to handle their tech support. I'll never use that software again - not trust worthy and the techs are clueless
Thank you very much
Hey guys, second time this issue has happened now for me but seems worse now. I used posts from here to resolve back in March when device got stuck in a boot loop after an OTA update, I managed to use Odin and a firmware from Sams Mobile to flash the phone and get it working again.
This time seems different though, I haven't tried the above steps yet, but none of the drives are mounting in the android recovery menu, which makes me think the device is going to need replacing. Anyone else come across this?
Seems different?
Well I would try Odin and an official ROM anyway, no pain no gain right?
What exactly were you doing before this occured?
You try the old delete usb driver, restart computer, install usb driver then restart computer and restart phone and try again.
SirDigbyCC said:
Hey guys, second time this issue has happened now for me but seems worse now. I used posts from here to resolve back in March when device got stuck in a boot loop after an OTA update, I managed to use Odin and a firmware from Sams Mobile to flash the phone and get it working again.
This time seems different though, I haven't tried the above steps yet, but none of the drives are mounting in the android recovery menu, which makes me think the device is going to need replacing. Anyone else come across this?
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there is never a bricked device for good just keep searching using very device speacific info, check on youtube and search the names exactly as the ypop up there will always be something
flairepathos.info said:
there is never a bricked device for good just keep searching using very device speacific info, check on youtube and search the names exactly as the ypop up there will always be something
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Looks like he bricked his bootloader's storage access driver, which AFAIK is unrecoverable unless download mode / sahara / etc is fine, but if the board is refusing to mount data while in the bootloader, it's safe to bet the rest of the modes are ****ed.
To answer a few of your questions in one go:
When I flashed it before it was back in end of Feb so a good while ago.
Just before it went into this boot loop it was working normally playing music in my pocket while doing gardening.
Using ODIN this time failed as I don't think it could access any of the drives.
SapphireEX said:
Looks like he bricked his bootloader's storage access driver, which AFAIK is unrecoverable unless download mode / sahara / etc is fine, but if the board is refusing to mount data while in the bootloader, it's safe to bet the rest of the modes are ****ed.
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Oh I see the issue now you need to wipe all and re-flash full firmware when flashing the device using Odin
if that doesn't work flash the partitions with the kernel drivers and system partition
I had a similar issue with my current mtk phone and it was because the boot/preloader partition bilieved i had flashed the wrong firmware for my device(it was just a different firmware release for my phone
Just to be safe some ota updates break wehn the bootloader is not unlocked (when updationg from say android 8(oreo) -9(pie)...)
especially because of code errors in the update, cache/vendor partition being too full after downloading update
SirDigbyCC said:
To answer a few of your questions in one go:
When I flashed it before it was back in end of Feb so a good while ago.
Just before it went into this boot loop it was working normally playing music in my pocket while doing gardening.
Using ODIN this time failed as I don't think it could access any of the drives.
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If you're telling the truth, and it wasn't a bad module / firmware / etc, it is possible your eMMC got too hot and melted some solder. I've seen it happen before.
You'll want to diagnose everything you can. If you're on Windows, does it recognize a USB device or a COM device? If linux, does lsusb return anything useful about it?
If it's not being detected, and multiple wires doesn't change anything, are you able to access sahara mode / download / DFU? If so, go to those and try again.
If you are lying, and this is a bad firmware flash / OTA brick, you'll need to tell us otherwise we'll be going in circles.
So ODIN does recognise the device when in android recovery mode i choose the bootloader, but when starting it, it fails. I'll give it longer tomorrow but my inclination is it's a chip failure. I don't know hot to tell if it was a bad firmware flash, but the first (and only) time I flashed it was back in late Feb / Early March, and I have been using it fine with many OTA updates since then using the phone normally since. Before the boot loop I was playing music via Bluetooth speaker but the battery died while gardening, which the battery died on so played music directly on the phone (no update or anything) and the music stopped halfway through the song and it was in a boot loop.
I am taking the phone in for repair on Wednesday but it's really frustrating because I legitimately want to get to the route cause of the issues. I am covered by Samsung Care +, but I feel like if I screwed up the first flash, it's still only as a result of that first OTA update going wrong in the first place. Does that make sense?
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So ODIN does recognise the device when in android recovery mode i choose the bootloader, but when starting it, it fails. I'll give it longer tomorrow but my inclination is it's a chip failure. I don't know hot to tell if it was a bad firmware flash, but the first (and only) time I flashed it was back in late Feb / Early March, and I have been using it fine with many OTA updates since then using the phone normally since. Before the boot loop I was playing music via Bluetooth speaker but the battery died while gardening, which the battery died on so played music directly on the phone (no update or anything) and the music stopped halfway through the song and it was in a boot loop.
I am taking the phone in for repair on Wednesday but it's really frustrating because I legitimately want to get to the route cause of the issues. I am covered by Samsung Care +, but I feel like if I screwed up the first flash, it's still only as a result of that first OTA update going wrong in the first place. Does that make sense?
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I'm going to call hardware failure. It's extremely rare that any device will do what yours is doing without a bad firmware flash.. It's possible you had an OTA and it auto updated, then broke, but I doubt it.
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I'm going to call hardware failure. It's extremely rare that any device will do what yours is doing without a bad firmware flash.. It's possible you had an OTA and it auto updated, then broke, but I doubt it.
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I appreciate the vote of confidence, I don't think it was an OTA update that did it this time, it usually requests to do updates which I highly doubt I would have pocket approved through a flip case only short after pressing play on Spotify.
So I have taken it into Samsung for repair and they have confirmed it's a hardware issue that feels vindicating!
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So I have taken it into Samsung for repair and they have confirmed it's a hardware issue that feels vindicating!
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how much are they charging for the repair though? probably a motherboard replacement ? boy thats not going to be cheap!
shriom_manerker said:
how much are they charging for the repair though? probably a motherboard replacement ? boy thats not going to be cheap!
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It was free, turned out to be a hardware issue internally so I think covered by warranty as I have Care+ which has an excess of £40 which they didn't make me pay. They also replaced the screen due to some dead pixels, and the battery! Happy days!
Thanks all for your suggestions!