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[Q] Bricked phone?

Is my phone totally bricked now? I installed "battery icon mod", cost about 1USD, and now it just keeps on "reflashing" the text "quietlly brilliant", and making that typical sound... I have S-OFF and root on my phone.
My question is, can it be restored somehow? I've tried to run through bootloader and do a factory reset, but that didn't help at all.
Also, is there a way to put a new rom on sdcard and flash it from bootloader, if so, how? I'm a bit newbie, and could use a step for step guide.
If nothing workes, I'll toss it out the window and never ever again buy a new phone stuck with a monthly payment for the next 1½ - 2 years

have you install clockworkmod recovery?
If yes:
0. make sure you have >50% battery
1. download any custom rom
2. go to bootloader and choose recovery
3. install from zip and find the directory of your rom
4. let it flash

Since your phone is bootlooing ... enter the recovery and open the mounts and storage menu assuming you have clockwork mod or 4ext installed ... from here u can mount usb storage to your pc ... i think this is what you want ...
But if you have stock recovery and system ... just run an ruu ...
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Hade to be "stuck" in the loop by "quietly brillian (sound)", in order to flash it with a stock rom. Nothing else managed to work, and even that was just a long shot. Now it works again.. *phu*

broman.m said:
Hade to be "stuck" in the loop by "quietly brillian (sound)", in order to flash it with a stock rom. Nothing else managed to work, and even that was just a long shot. Now it works again.. *phu*
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Works again ... good to hear bro
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[Q] Getting into recovery mode

Hi,
I was wanting to perform a nandroid backup of my phone so that i can upgrade to the latest baseband as I don't really want to wait for it to be released in the uk.
So I turned the phone off and then powered the phone back on. I have read through this forum and on google and found I need to press The power button and volume down until android appeared. So...
The first time I did this the first screen I got to was the updating screen. I let go before the screen appeared as my htc hero (phone before my O2X) booted straight into recovery mode after holding for a second or two. I had to pull the battery and let the phone reboot.
The second time I did it I got to a box with an arrow pointing out of with the android outside of it so I let go again. This time it has wiped the phone back to factory defaults.
Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong please. Obviously the nandroid backup is useless now I have nothing to backup but I'd still like to know for the future.
I hope someone can point me in the right direction
Sedge

If entering recovery reset your phone you didn't install clockworkmod recovery. Install CWM from a thread in the O2X development forum or download ROM Manager from Market

Oooooo that makes me feel like a right n00b.... cheers for that. Do i need root access for cwm?
If i was to get rom manager does that do the same job as cwm to get into recovery mode??
thank you so much for your help!!
sedge
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Yes you need root, if you use the one from my thread, it gains a root shell to flash it, but doesn't perm root the phone.
Use SuperOneClick if you want proper root.

Cheers for that rusty. I might just perm root it tbh then i can also do a titanium backup and use that. When you say it needs root to flash, does Cwm flash something onto the phone to make the phone enter recovery? If it does, what does it flash?
Thanks again!!
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It flashes itself so you can boot into it.
You can use ROM Manger to boot into it, vol- & power, reboot apps from the Market etc

[Q] Help with CWM 6.0.14

Hey guys
I've been following the forum for a while, but never posted anything, but now I need to.
So, I flashed a CWM, to be more specific this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852725
And now, I can't do nothing with the phone, can't flash the recovery 5.0.26, can't recover backup.. When I try to restart the phone, it aways goes automacally for the recovery, I took the battery off but still nothing. Even pluging the charger, the phone turn on and goes to recovery..
So I'm here to ask: what should I try? I think if I install CWM via ODIN everything will be ok right? I can't do this right now cause i'm without my usb cable. What u guys know about this?

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shucrut said:
Hey guys
I've been following the forum for a while, but never posted anything, but now I need to.
So, I flashed a CWM, to be more specific this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852725
And now, I can't do nothing with the phone, can't flash the recovery 5.0.26, can't recover backup.. When I try to restart the phone, it aways goes automacally for the recovery, I took the battery off but still nothing. Even pluging the charger, the phone turn on and goes to recovery..
So I'm here to ask: what should I try? I think if I install CWM via ODIN everything will be ok right? I can't do this right now cause i'm without my usb cable. What u guys know about this?
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it was WIP so it can have problems........................can you tell why can't flash the recovery 5.0.26

Flash with Odin,your phone will be perfectly fine
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aayushkhajuria2842 said:
it was WIP so it can have problems........................can you tell why can't flash the recovery 5.0.26
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A tried but it didn't intall, give me an error and a message like " error: Installation Aborted"
But anyway, I've got an USB cable today and was able to flash CWM via ODIN and work perfectly. Btw thx guys for the replies :laugh:

help me enter cwm 6 plzz
shucrut said:
Hey guys
me i root my lg optimus 4x all was ok i install clockwork 6 install 4x recovery reboot recovery ... now nothing happen its stuck at the videotron startup screen ..it reboot in stock recovery but cant do nothing ...usb really hard to connect via the pc ....help me guys i want to know how to put thwe cwm recovery and flash cm10... tanxs in advance
I've been following the forum for a while, but never posted anything, but now I need to.
So, I flashed a CWM, to be more specific this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852725
And now, I can't do nothing with the phone, can't flash the recovery 5.0.26, can't recover backup.. When I try to restart the phone, it aways goes automacally for the recovery, I took the battery off but still nothing. Even pluging the charger, the phone turn on and goes to recovery..
So I'm here to ask: what should I try? I think if I install CWM via ODIN everything will be ok right? I can't do this right now cause i'm without my usb cable. What u guys know about this?
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​i come its so hard to put a comment lolll message to short or not valis code lolll lollll

[Q] What to do when I soft brick.

I was installing the DA Statusbar mod. Before I did that I back up my phone using CWM and Titanium Backup.
installed with no problems, I then rebooted. Home screen froze for a second and then showed me that my system.ui crashed. It kept doing that for a good 5 minutes. I decided to go back into CWM and restore my last saved state. I recieved an error installing the back ups (I have made 5 so far).
Now I don't really know what to do. I know I have to basically start from the beginning via flashing stock rom on odin. But how would I go about doing that? I can't seem to find the thread that explains this. =/
Thanks in advanced
SOLUTION HERE

You need to be much more specific. What's your recovery version? How did you backup/restore? Have you done this before? What's the error?

Use the unified tool kit to flash the stock rom.
I strangely cannot find a thread for the 9305 for stock roms =\

The stock firmware can be found on sammobile
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To shorten the question and answers... If you could still boot to Download mode.
Flash your stock original firmware trhu Odin on your pc or download an exact model for your phone in SamMobile. From there you start a new... Root then re flash the cwm and so on...

If I understand this right you can boot to cwm and you can boot into the phone but the systemui fcs.
You can do a couple things here without having to reflash anything through odin. If you have your original systemui on the phone somewhere you can try and navigate to it with a root explorer then copy it into your system/app reboot and it should be as before, this can be tricky with constant fc's.
If you have a zip which has a systemui in it you can flash that in cwm and should fix the problem.
If you have a custom rom on your phone you can boot into cwm and flash it.
The fact that you have access to cwm and the phone boots but the systemui constantly fc's making the phone unusable means you have more options and quicker ways to get your phone working then going back to scratch and flashing a rom through odin
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Solution.
Basically I got stuck at the samsung boot logo for ages.
I am running CWM v5.5.0.4. I have done this before, sorry I wasn't specific, I was trying to multitask. I've attached a screenshot of my phone info for everyone to see.
1. I wiped data/factory reset.
2. Wiped cache partition.
3. Wiped Dalvik Cache
4. Battery Stats
Rebooted, still no luck.
I went into Download mode.
Opened Odin.
Downloaded " Param_Bin_I9305.zip - 612.14 KB" located in this post
Followed the instructions in that post.
rebooted.
Thought it didn't work but my capacitive buttons lit up. SUCCESS!
Saw my homescreen, I thought I would have needed to root again but I managed to get into CWM after rebooting.
I downloaded root checker....I saw that I still had root access.
Installed Pandoriam v6.
Now I am back to normal.
My CWM backup didn't save me, I don't really know why. Maybe I was using it wrong? The thing is It's worked with me in the past, but not on this device.
Is there anyone that could shed light on that issue? I'll try and back it up again. Do I need to repeat the backup more than a few times to register it to the device?

Not sure if this is the right place or not but seems to be a similar situation.
I have a month old S3 LTE that came with 4.1.2 . It has not been rooted or had anything done to it at all.
I found a thread that shows you how to unlock it but was not getting the final option . This I understood was because some of these phones needed to be downgraded .
I saw a procedure using odin and looked for a similar rom on Sammobile but could not see any for Orange UK so picked a random 4.1.1 Rom and flashed it.
This left me with a glowing Samsung boot screen so I tried another ROM and another ROM and finally when giving up choose a current 4.1.2 Rom for EE but that too is stuck at the same place.
Can you help me work out where I am or have been going wrong please?
The Phone is from Orange UK ( EE ) but there was no branding on it .
i also neglected to note the Rom that was on it

if you read the guides you will find out that you need to factory reset after flashing

Unfortunately as the phone is sitting at a glowing Samsung logo, I cannot factory reset. In fact I cannot do anything except keep throwing Roms at it, unless you have any other suggestions?
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You can't get into recovery by pressing volume up, power and home?
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did you try pulling your battery then trying recovery mode?
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thx natthewife
Pulled the battery . held volume up and home and dropped the battery in . Straight into recovery . ! All done now . Can hand over to my son so he can scratch it up drop it down the toilet or lose it on the bus . !
thx again

[Q] I think some help is needed in urgency and wisdom

Hi everyone
After a lot of reading i decided to install a ROM. Now i was able to try to but none of them worked, so i ve been trying now for 3 days. I think i did it all as stated in this forums, it launched but never go to really open the OS, used to get stuck at the motorola or nexus logos or what ever logo from the different ROMs i downloaded.
I was able to go back to the original ROM but today im not being able to do so...
What can i do? Im at recovery and im able to restore boot but at system it says:Error while restoring /system!
I had it backedup at pc so i have also removed the one at sd card and tried with the one from PC.
What can i do (that doesnt involve getting another phone)

You can try RSDLite to flash back stock ROM just be careful and flash right ROM, otherwise you can brick your phone. You can't flash custom ROMs with RSD.

mm166 said:
You can try RSDLite to flash back stock ROM just be careful and flash right ROM, otherwise you can brick your phone. You can't flash custom ROMs with RSD.
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Attempting in 3..2..1..................

It doesnt let me use decompress and flash... im decompressing and will see if there is an option to flash after that...

Ok my issue is that phone is not recognized by the RSD... i know update the drivers bla blaaa... how if its not recognized and the MDM needs the phone connected to be updated and in my country i know noone else with a damn Motorola phone... ideas ?

MrPersonality said:
Ok my issue is that phone is not recognized by the RSD... i know update the drivers bla blaaa... how if its not recognized and the MDM needs the phone connected to be updated and in my country i know noone else with a damn Motorola phone... ideas ?
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Boot the phone into bootloader/fastboot?

You have an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery installed? I assume you have both since you were trying to install custom ROMs.

I have tried to the fastboot... im trying AP fastboot and theres where i am stuck right now.
Yes custome recovery and unlocked bootloader there. I had the phone moved to another couple of roms but the never loaded correctly so i went back to my original ROM, i tried a few other ROMs and none worked so this time i try to go back but it doesnt come back anymore... :laugh:

Try downloading PhilzAdvanced CWM Recovery. It is based off the latest CWM and should be able to flash your backups or ROMS. Maybe not your backups unless you made them with a CWM based recovery, but it should get you booted up.

kingatmos said:
Try downloading PhilzAdvanced CWM Recovery. It is based off the latest CWM and should be able to flash your backups or ROMS. Maybe not your backups unless you made them with a CWM based recovery, but it should get you booted up.
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Is it possible to do that? I mean right now my phone only boots to fastboot you know... i may flash a rom (which didnt work with any from this forum neither with CM) but i cant install anything in my phone so... how can i do that?

MrPersonality said:
Is it possible to do that? I mean right now my phone only boots to fastboot you know... i may flash a rom (which didnt work with any from this forum neither with CM) but i cant install anything in my phone so... how can i do that?
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1. Read the Myth Tools OP
2. Download Myth Tools
3. Download Philz CWM
4. Download a stock fastboot
5. Place the fastboot zip and the extracted recovery/cwm.img in their respected folders
6. Run Myth's executable and follow the instructions
7. If that doesn't work then read the faqs here and in the RAZR HD forums, all your questions have been answered already.

Still with same issue...
Phone is not recognized by the computer (tried 3 different laptops)
Cannot download the Drivers as its an automated process that begins when you connect the phone...
Does anyone knows an alternative to install AHD drivers ?

MrPersonality said:
Still with same issue...
Phone is not recognized by the computer (tried 3 different laptops)
Cannot download the Drivers as its an automated process that begins when you connect the phone...
Does anyone knows an alternative to install AHD drivers ?
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Did you not see the mythtools menu option for drivers?
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palmbeach05 said:
Did you not see the mythtools menu option for drivers?
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Again, my main issue device not detected by pc... so i cant download drivers using automatic tools that detects the phone because again phone is not detected and mythtools goes straight to the motorola device manager which needs a phone connected to act... so in a very bad circle i am... and i would try to use someone else phone but here in Costa Rica i know of noone else with a Motorola phone... everyone thinks it no longer exists... and i havent found a way to download the specific drivers for my specific device in a way it doesnt require to be connected.

You can boot into recovery? If so download the latest philztouch cwm recovery, put it on your sd card, and flash it from recovery. Then flash the ROM you want.
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kingatmos said:
You can boot into recovery? If so download the latest philztouch cwm recovery, put it on your sd card, and flash it from recovery. Then flash the ROM you want.
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Nice i managed to flash the philztouch recovery... the damn phone doesn't want to accept any ROM... keeps aborting them. So far thanks a lot... ill read like crazy today again and ill ask for help if failure salutes me again!
:highfive:

If you made a backup of your stock after rooting try flashing that and then hooking your phone up to your pc
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It finally works
It works... i think somehow the recovery stopped working at some point... now with Philz phone was recognized by pc and i was able to use Myth tools to do the job. I think this will be my last Motorola...
Things to highlight:
1 i did read a lot before doing anything, still somehow screwed up, did read lots before asking here, still needed to ask... got answers, still needed to ask more... it was fun as everyone at work said: " its bricked fool buy a new one and stop playing to be good at something" but hell yeah its fixed!
2 i will try again to install another rom, i wont give up damn it!
3 i might begin with my wife Note 1, its old so its ok to brick it ha ha ha
4 damn it guys you are cool... wish i were 10% of you guys!
5 I think instead of all those different options out there we should recommend only to use the myth tools, its a complete package and its easy to use even with examples for newbies like me.
Again thanks and questions on friday after i brick it again e he he he...

The other stuff is there so you can understand what the automated stuff is actually doing.
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Ok so i have started the process again. I cant tell what i am doing wrong. I have flashed 2 different roms and none worked... its like im missing something.
I root the device, unlock bootloader... set the recovery with cwm... flash the rom... and it goes to moto logo and then black screen... am i missing something?
I did the exact same for the stock rom and it did work... also i did it all exactly the same using now myth tools... so any ideas? Should i leave the phone alone because its just simply not going to work or am i missing anything?