Hello All,
Hoping someone will be able to assist me, though I'm starting to lose hope.
I have spent all day so far reading threads, and trying various suggestions and fixes, but nothing has really helped and I'm beginning to think the phone may just be kaput.
Initial issue was nothing out of the ordinary; woke up to find the phone was not responding so pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, the phone would no longer turn on. Uh oh. Did the obvious, repull the battery, try again. Nothing. Connect to charger (nothing happens, no charging icon on screen). At this point I think the battery has died so I bought a new one. No change, phone still won't turn on and nothing happens when I plug it in to charge.
So now I connect it to my PC, and I get the installing hardware message trying to install the APX stuff which fails. After some research, I manage to get the APX drivers installed such that the phone is detected when I plug it in. More research, decide to try the AOI Toolkit to backup everything first. This works ok.
So now I try and enter recovery mode via Power key + Volume Down key. Nothing. Ok, change the recovery image then. Device is not detected via ADB method. NVFlash method instead then. The bootloader loads fine, the screen wakes up and shows the S/W Download... message. I figure this is a hopeful sign. I try all 3 (ics-cwm-5, ics-cwm-6, twrp-2.5). They all flash successfully. However, I can't enter recovery mode with any of them. Once I disconnect the phone, insert the battery and then hold down the Power + Volume Down buttons, nothing ever happens.
I've also tried the LG Update Tool and the Smartflash options, but the phone is never detected.
As a last resort I repartitioned. This also worked ok, but still no recovery mode.
tl;dr
Phone won't turn on, show as charging, or enter recovery mode. Works when connected as APX with AOI Toolkit.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thx.
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Okay, I'm bumping this thread myself (mostly because I'm an idiot and this could happen to me, too), but to give you my two cents: Have you tried the Full Brick Repair tool? You flash it through NVFlash and apparently "it cures any brick". Try it and tell us how it went.
NoDze said:
Okay, I'm bumping this thread myself (mostly because I'm an idiot and this could happen to me, too), but to give you my two cents: Have you tried the Full Brick Repair tool? You flash it through NVFlash and apparently "it cures any brick". Try it and tell us how it went.
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Thanks for the suggestion. The flash process itself completed without issue, but still nothing once the battery is inserted and the power button is pressed. I'm going to assume there is some sort of hardware issue at this point and consider the phone officially dead. Now, where's my hammer...?
xda_fanboy said:
Thanks for the suggestion. The flash process itself completed without issue, but still nothing once the battery is inserted and the power button is pressed. I'm going to assume there is some sort of hardware issue at this point and consider the phone officially dead. Now, where's my hammer...?
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Don't give up yet. Try smartflash and flash stock, or whatever. Seriously. Just keep on trying. I had a Samsung Captivate a year back and something similar happened where I woke up one beautiful morning, tried to unlock my phone: no response. I thought I had an SOD, so I pulled the battery out, reinserted: bootloop. Entered recovery, can't flash anything, unable to mount system/data partitions. Turns out my internal memory/ROM got fried. Yay. But until then, I tried every possible option. Wow, this turned out to be a bit depressing. Just try more stuff. After you've tried everything, and I mean everything, declare the phone dead.
I think i have a similar problem. Just woke up to find my phone to be dead. Tried the usual methods, nothing. Best it could do was from time to time show me a battery sign with a red triangle and a whtie exclamation mark in it. Then sometimes i manage to get into the recovery mode, there i tried practically everything. Used restore, it shows that restore was a success, but when i reboot my phone i get into an endless circle of bootloader icon appearing and dissappearing,
EDIT: somehow from the countless attempt it fired up.
Make sure to have the right bootloader before nvflashing unbrick roms....
xda_fanboy said:
Hello All,
Hoping someone will be able to assist me, though I'm starting to lose hope.
I have spent all day so far reading threads, and trying various suggestions and fixes, but nothing has really helped and I'm beginning to think the phone may just be kaput.
Initial issue was nothing out of the ordinary; woke up to find the phone was not responding so pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, the phone would no longer turn on. Uh oh. Did the obvious, repull the battery, try again. Nothing. Connect to charger (nothing happens, no charging icon on screen). At this point I think the battery has died so I bought a new one. No change, phone still won't turn on and nothing happens when I plug it in to charge.
So now I connect it to my PC, and I get the installing hardware message trying to install the APX stuff which fails. After some research, I manage to get the APX drivers installed such that the phone is detected when I plug it in. More research, decide to try the AOI Toolkit to backup everything first. This works ok.
So now I try and enter recovery mode via Power key + Volume Down key. Nothing. Ok, change the recovery image then. Device is not detected via ADB method. NVFlash method instead then. The bootloader loads fine, the screen wakes up and shows the S/W Download... message. I figure this is a hopeful sign. I try all 3 (ics-cwm-5, ics-cwm-6, twrp-2.5). They all flash successfully. However, I can't enter recovery mode with any of them. Once I disconnect the phone, insert the battery and then hold down the Power + Volume Down buttons, nothing ever happens.
I've also tried the LG Update Tool and the Smartflash options, but the phone is never detected.
As a last resort I repartitioned. This also worked ok, but still no recovery mode.
tl;dr
Phone won't turn on, show as charging, or enter recovery mode. Works when connected as APX with AOI Toolkit.
Am I missing something? Doing something wrong? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thx.
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Try to flash a new recovery image in apx mode.
And edit the /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 partition your self.
seek=6144 count=75 bs=1 / boot-recovery
Thanks for the added input and encouragement folks.
Just reporting an update:
Having been unsuccessful more times than I could count, I decided to physically disassemble the phone (normally Engineering fix #2, but performed out of order on this occasion). I have zero idea why it should have made a difference, as all I did was take it apart and then put it back together, but the phone has groaned back to life.
Of course, then sausage-fingers here managed to tear the digitizer cable when doing the final reassambly... /facepalm
Anyhow, I have a replacement on order, so I'm hopeful that when I receive that in a few days I'm back to a fully functional Optimus 2x!!
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Hi,
I want to say that everyone is very helpful in this forum and you all rock. I'm having some problems with my rooted samsung captivate. I installed the I9000 Full rom, and it was running fine for a few days then I notice it was very sluggish, so I did a factory restore, but data and apps didn't delete. So I then when in to recovery (R2) and deleted cache and all user data files, then it did a factory restore, and it went in boot up pass the att and samsung S i9000 screen and when to the lock screen, but once I unlock the phone, its just in the black screen, when I click and hold on to the home button it goes to recent, no recnet application and under Task Manager, I have 0 active applications. It won't load any programs or apps. I tried restoring the phone by holding the down volume key and power on button, it goes to R2 recovery and then reinstall package, but it can't find the package. I have it on the memory card, but I guess I deleted it from the internal memory when I did a factory restore. Am I screw, or can someone guide me through this and fix my fone. Thanks in advance. XDA Rules.
Odin one click back to stock, assuming you can get into download mode. Also do a master clear just to be sure. A fresh start might be just what your Captivate needs.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
The same thing happened to me yesterday. Phone was on, battery fully charged. I got on my flight and left it on (forgot I guess) and when I got off the flight, the screen was black. I'll also add, that over the past 3 days the phone was starting to get extremely sluggish (for no reason that I can think of). But back to the rest of the story...
I couldn't get it to turn on, so I pulled the battery and tried again. This time I got the AT&T logo and the Samsung animation. Once the animation was completed the screen goes black.
The phone is still on. How do I know? If I touch any of the bottom buttons they light up.... and stay lit up until I do a battery pull.
Deleted/cleared everything, same behaviour.
I tried reflashing JI6, it works but fails to reinstall the packages, otherwise same behaviour.
I tried reflashing JF6, same behaviour.
The flashes always succeed, but always end up in failure.
Now for the interesting part. I went into recovery mode on JI6. I try to format the internal /sdcard, I get a message that it cannot mount /sdcard /dev... not found.
So to recap, phone not working, recovery mode available, download mode available. adb doesn't seem to be working, but if someone can tell me how to access the phone with "adb shell" while in recovery mode, I might be able to diagnose why /dev... is not mounting... Or at least how I could fix it using adb.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm traveling and needless to say, this is a huge inconvenience, I'm lucky I had my backup phone to at least be able to get online and be able to make calls.
HI,
thanks for quick response. I can get to the recovery mode, where the android holding the shovel. But when I load Odin one click, it don't seem to detect and do anything. o success 0 failed. I installed the samsung captivate windows 7 drivers, the funny thing is when I plug my brink phone in the usb port, it say unrecongize usb. Any other suggestions. Thanks
hksmr2 said:
HI,
thanks for quick response. I can get to the recovery mode, where the android holding the shovel. But when I load Odin one click, it don't seem to detect and do anything. o success 0 failed. I installed the samsung captivate windows 7 drivers, the funny thing is when I plug my brink phone in the usb port, it say unrecongize usb. Any other suggestions. Thanks
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the shovel is NOT recovery mode, it is download mode.
have ODIN running BEFORE you get your phone in download mode
Hey guys,
Today I decided to flash TrickDroid 10.0.0. Everything went well, installed it and at the end of flashing appeared a blue screen saying "Please wait". Waited for about 8-10 minutes, than just clicked once a power button. It asked me do I really wanna quit Aroma installation, pressed No. Then something "magical" happened and it was saying that installation is finished, click to reboot. So I did. After this step my phone won't turn on in any ways, tried to connect to pc - still no signs, it even won't charging..
How can I bring it to life!? Or this is it?
Nelayme said:
Hey guys,
Today I decided to flash TrickDroid 10.0.0. Everything went well, installed it and at the end of flashing appeared a blue screen saying "Please wait". Waited for about 8-10 minutes, than just clicked once a power button. It asked me do I really wanna quit Aroma installation, pressed No. Then something "magical" happened and it was saying that installation is finished, click to reboot. So I did. After this step my phone won't turn on in any ways, tried to connect to pc - still no signs, it even won't charging..
How can I bring it to life!? Or this is it?
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Hold Power and Volume down until it goes into the bootloader, from there go into recovery and try re-flashing.
AllAboutTheCore said:
Hold Power and Volume down until it goes into the bootloader, from there go into recovery and try re-flashing.
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Tried this many times but still nothing happens. I think it's totally bricked
Put it under a light, a very strong light and longpress the power button, try this
Are you S-On or S-Off? If you're S-On it isn't possible for you to totally brick the phone as far as I'm aware ... Especially not from flashing a ROM.
AllAboutTheCore said:
Are you S-On or S-Off? If you're S-On it isn't possible for you to totally brick the phone as far as I'm aware ... Especially not from flashing a ROM.
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I'm S-On. I was searching for a solution later today and I found JTAG Riff box (actually, the service which brings the phones back to life by using this tool). However they can't help me at all, cause my phone isn't listed in that repairable list (not sure why). And the other thing they said was that I need to change the mainboard, because there're no other ways how to fix this problem. And it's a job for htc, not for them.
Nelayme said:
I'm S-On. I was searching for a solution later today and I found JTAG Riff box (actually, the service which brings the phones back to life by using this tool). However they can't help me at all, cause my phone isn't listed in that repairable list (not sure why). And the other thing they said was that I need to change the mainboard, because there're no other ways how to fix this problem. And it's a job for htc, not for them.
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if your phone is booting to recovery you can still fix it without replacing mainboard just download cyanogenmod once and try flashing it after wiping everything and see if phone boots up. if it does you can use another custom sense 5rom and if it doesnt htc is the way to go
You're not bricked at all, calm down. Aroma crashes all the time and you just didn't finish the rom installation. Go back into recovery, wipe everything and flash it again. To turn the phone off, plug it into your PC and type 'adb reboot' and then hold down power and volume down as it is rebooting.
Greetings,
My internal sd card died slowly over time. It failed to mount on some occasions at first. After a few weeks I had massive app crashes.
Everything I did on the phone (installing apps, deleting files, even doing a factory reset) seemed to revert back after rebooting the phone. I mean I delete some files, and after reboot, the files came back from the dead. Same thing for factory reset.
Installing other roms made the situation even worse, and I had to revert back to stock 2.3 rom.
And since last week, the phone is on permanent bootloop. It won't go into download or recovery mode (it used to activate those modes with 3 button combo before).
I tried the USB JIG method. Built a 301k resistor, connected pins to the usb thingie. It did power the phone on, but failed to trigger the download mode. The phone still goes into a boot loop.
Anyone has any ideas? I don't know what more information I can provide about the issue.
Regards,
No download mode?
If your phone won’t enter download mode, you can try three things:
A USB jig. Don’t pin your hopes on this, they rarely succeed in this scenario.
‘Jump starting’ – You might need someone else to give you a hand for this. Take the battery out of your phone and wait 30 seconds. Now, press the button combination to enter download mode, and with this combination still depressed, get someone to put the battery back in. Hopefully this will jolt your phone into download mode.
Take out the phone battery, and re-insert it, but don’t turn the phone on. Now, plug in the charger while holding the volume down button. Keep holding volume down till you enter download mode.
If your phone won’t enter download mode, and will do nothing but get hot when you attempt to do anything to it (charge it, turn it on), then your motherboard is in need of replacement.
Your options
I’ve seen a lot of people, when their Odin flash fails, either:
Give up. Not a good option.
Flash a .pit file. That should be used as an absolute last resort. There’s a lot to try before getting to that stage! If a flash of a .pit file fails in Odin, your phone is well and truly unrecoverable, and you will need a motherboard (MB) replacement.
Quoted from a quite by Hopper8, try these steps. Can't really do anything since recovery/download mode is dead. If you can get into download mode, flash a .pit file (get all the files ready beforehand). Be quick, since you don't know when your device will die again.
N7105 rocking AOSB with AGNi kernel,
Click "Thanks" if I was of any help!
FraggyDav said:
Greetings,
My internal sd card died slowly over time. It failed to mount on some occasions at first. After a few weeks I had massive app crashes.
Everything I did on the phone (installing apps, deleting files, even doing a factory reset) seemed to revert back after rebooting the phone. I mean I delete some files, and after reboot, the files came back from the dead. Same thing for factory reset.
Installing other roms made the situation even worse, and I had to revert back to stock 2.3 rom.
And since last week, the phone is on permanent bootloop. It won't go into download or recovery mode (it used to activate those modes with 3 button combo before).
I tried the USB JIG method. Built a 301k resistor, connected pins to the usb thingie. It did power the phone on, but failed to trigger the download mode. The phone still goes into a boot loop.
Anyone has any ideas? I don't know what more information I can provide about the issue.
Regards,
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My little sister had the same problem.
But now the phone is complete dead.
Not booting after bootloop.
No customroms ever installed.
Hello all, It has been some time since my last post.
My sisters Note 4 started boot looping the other day... More specifically, it would boot up, then a few min later reboot into recovery. Failure to Mount Cache, or something along those lines... So I did the cache wipe and a FDR. Thought all was well, then a few hours later, booop, rebooted into recovery again.
So she sent me her phone, I went to flash via Odin the latest release from Tmo...it kept failing. So then I did the Kies way... Failed the first time, but after a few tries.. it worked... Phone booted into setup.. YAY... premature YAY. A few min later, the phone rebooted, but this time into download mode....crazy. So I plugged it back into the PC ran odin again.. Fail, Tried different releases of Andriod... Fail... I rebooted it, and now I can't get any recovery or download mode. When I plug the phone into the PC.. it makes the beep boop beep boop.. like a USB device has been connected.. but does not show up in the drives list, or the device manager.. also Odin does not see it.
I thought the battery was the issue, but I check the current out of the ports with my multi Meter... Checked the battery as well and it's healthy.
I have found a few things about teh 1..2..3.. thing, that doesn't work. Saw some about leaving the battery out for a few hours.. that didn't work. I know the vol down-home-power button etc.. I have tried all the basic ways to get into download, even tried ADB (won't work because device isn't recognized.)
Any ides or maybe?....maybe something I haven't seen yet? I am a good googler, and wouln't have posted here if I hadn't kept running into a dead ends... Could it be the mobo in the device?
Thank you in advance!!
RP
Rabid Panda said:
Hello all, It has been some time since my last post.
My sisters Note 4 started boot looping the other day... More specifically, it would boot up, then a few min later reboot into recovery. Failure to Mount Cache, or something along those lines... So I did the cache wipe and a FDR. Thought all was well, then a few hours later, booop, rebooted into recovery again.
So she sent me her phone, I went to flash via Odin the latest release from Tmo...it kept failing. So then I did the Kies way... Failed the first time, but after a few tries.. it worked... Phone booted into setup.. YAY... premature YAY. A few min later, the phone rebooted, but this time into download mode....crazy. So I plugged it back into the PC ran odin again.. Fail, Tried different releases of Andriod... Fail... I rebooted it, and now I can't get any recovery or download mode. When I plug the phone into the PC.. it makes the beep boop beep boop.. like a USB device has been connected.. but does not show up in the drives list, or the device manager.. also Odin does not see it.
I thought the battery was the issue, but I check the current out of the ports with my multi Meter... Checked the battery as well and it's healthy.
I have found a few things about teh 1..2..3.. thing, that doesn't work. Saw some about leaving the battery out for a few hours.. that didn't work. I know the vol down-home-power button etc.. I have tried all the basic ways to get into download, even tried ADB (won't work because device isn't recognized.)
Any ides or maybe?....maybe something I haven't seen yet? I am a good googler, and wouln't have posted here if I hadn't kept running into a dead ends... Could it be the mobo in the device?
Thank you in advance!!
RP
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Your device is definitely hard bricked to unbrick.
Have a look at link below it might help.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/snapdragon-dev/note-4-debrick-img-t3488114
I gave that a shot this morning....no dice. Still nothing...Still get the beep boop beep when i connect the phone, but still can't get it into download mode. I might consider using it as a Frisbee...or target practice...
Hi all.
So yesterday, I flashed a modified version of the eRecovery and tried upgrading, but upon reboot my device goes into error mode and I think it might be hard bricked.
There's no fastboot. eRecovery, dload method doesn't work and I can't switch it off either because it always goes into error mode upon reboot. Luckily I've opened up my device and unplugged the battery to prevent it from draining.
Is there any hope of flashing back to stock? ANY help would be appreciated!
9bestenbier said:
Hi all.
So yesterday, I flashed a modified version of the eRecovery and tried upgrading, but upon reboot my device goes into error mode and I think it might be hard bricked.
There's no fastboot. eRecovery, dload method doesn't work and I can't switch it off either because it always goes into error mode upon reboot. Luckily I've opened up my device and unplugged the battery to prevent it from draining.
Is there any hope of flashing back to stock? ANY help would be appreciated!
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Put the battery back in place and turn the phone on until battery drains. Then, connect it to the PC while pressing the volume button to access fastboot and reflash twrp. Good luck!
CarlosAG10 said:
Put the battery back in place and turn the phone on until battery drains. Then, connect it to the PC while pressing the volume button to access fastboot and reflash twrp. Good luck!
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I've actually thought of that so I plugged the battery in again and switched on the phone and let it go into error mode. It'll probably take several hours for it to drain because it was around 60% before I bricked it. So I'll let it drain and see if something happens when I reconnect it. Hopefully it'll go to fastboot. If not, I'll probably have to save up for something new. But I'll try a few more times to see if I can unbrick my device.
9bestenbier said:
I've actually thought of that so I plugged the battery in again and switched on the phone and let it go into error mode. It'll probably take several hours for it to drain because it was around 60% before I bricked it. So I'll let it drain and see if something happens when I reconnect it. Hopefully it'll go to fastboot. If not, I'll probably have to save up for something new. But I'll try a few more times to see if I can unbrick my device.
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Hi,
If your bootloader partition is safe, and that should be the case, then you will always be able to fix your phone. Just a matter of time/attempts.
Good luck ?