My attempt to root my stock Jelly Bean Droid 4 two night was inadvertently interrupted (cable was accidentally disconnected mid-process) and now I can't get it to do anything. It won't charge or boot into any mode at all.
I ordered a factory adapter from Team Black Hat, which arrived today (California to NY in two days, not bad USPS). I attached the adaptr, plugged it into my phone, and then connected it to my computer using the USB cable that came with the phone. Nothing happened. I left it a few minutes, and then tried the power button and the power + volume to try and get it into recovery mode. Still nothing. I've also tried a few different cables, to the same result.
When I remove the adapter and just plug in the cable, the green LED turns on and stays on, but only when connected to my PC. Plugging into the wall charger does nothing.
Have a missed a step some place or is my phone completely knackered?
Which program did you use to root?
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sd_shadow said:
Which program did you use to root?
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Razr Blade. I had rooted using this method once before, but unrooted to get the OTA update that came out in January. I was in the process of trying to re-root when the cable was disconnected.
Some more info that might be helpful - my PC does not recognize that anything is plugged in (tried in different ports on two different computers).
I did some deeper digging and I fear I might have accidentally started flashing the wrong firmware, rather than running the exploit. In any event, the process was interrupted before anything could complete and I recall seeing a failed message twice, although I can't unfortunately recall what that error referred to.
I'm assuming at this point that I've hard bricked it and need to get a new phone.
If you were using [SCRIPT] DROID RAZR Utility XT912 Jellybean -- Windows + Mac + Linux (All In One!)
instead of the Droid 4 utility or just the original razr blade root by Dan Rosenberg
and selected flash firmware, yes the Droid Razr firmware will brick the Droid 4.
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Hi, I have 2 bricked KFHD's 7" after trying to Root them, I have just received my SKORPN Factory Cable, followed the instructions as sent by the man himself and nothing, any ideas????? I was under the impression that the battery does not need to be charged and that connection would put the Kindles into Fastboot to allow me to flash the devices, I am at a loss as to what to do, i know my ADB drivers are installed correctly as it shows in Device Manager on my PC when I connect my wifes' KFHD.
Please Help - failing my efforts does anyone know of anyone who repairs these devices?
FatedBoot said:
Hi, I have 2 bricked KFHD's 7" after trying to Root them, I have just received my SKORPN Factory Cable, followed the instructions as sent by the man himself and nothing, any ideas????? I was under the impression that the battery does not need to be charged and that connection would put the Kindles into Fastboot to allow me to flash the devices, I am at a loss as to what to do, i know my ADB drivers are installed correctly as it shows in Device Manager on my PC when I connect my wifes' KFHD.
Please Help - failing my efforts does anyone know of anyone who repairs these devices?
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Other than "bricked", what state are the devices in? Better yet...What were the instructions that Skorpn gave you?
Both Kindles are totally unresponsive, have tried previous Factory cables but no use. I bought the SKORPN cable as it has such good reviews and the instructions are as follows, sent with the cable;
1) Turn OFF the Kindle Fire and wait 30 seconds or so, (mine don't even turn on so no problem there).
2) First, plug the USB Micro-B end into the Kindle Fire.
3) Then plug the standard Type-A end into the computer.
4) Profit...
Exactly as typed on the accompanying paperwork.
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Both Kindles are totally unresponsive
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Totally unresponsive, how? Unresponsive as in...there is nothing on the display and nothing happens when you press the power button? Do you mean that kind of "totally unresponsive"?
Exactly that, nothing happens with the power button pressed, nothing on the screen
Your device is lost, unfortunately. What exactly did you do to it before this happened?
Just tried rooting them, all seemed to be going well until the reboot process and they never turned on again - never mind, off to the bin they go - cheers for your help
FatedBoot said:
Just tried rooting them, all seemed to be going well until the reboot process and they never turned on again - never mind, off to the bin they go - cheers for your help
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Yet another "Kindle fire utility" Victim!
I'll assume you used kindle fire utility since this is the only tool that tries to install a 2nd bootloader along with root (flashing the wrong bootloader is the only thing that causes a device to not even power up), What you need to do now is contact amazon and send it back to them they'll most likely give you a replacement!
Or you can send it to prokennexusa At
Xerocomm, Inc
Attn: Chris Bryant
1684 Northstar Drive
Petaluma, CA 94954
He'll fix it for you and you can always thank him by giving him a small donation!
I have a Verizon LG G2 VS980. The phone was rooted and running stock firmware.
I hit the "Update software" by mistake on a business trip and when the screen went black, I powered off the device in hopes of preventing the update (which I see now was a HUGE mistake.) Now, the phone only boots into fastboot mode. When I try to hold the vol + and power, it takes me straight into fastboot as well as the vol - and power.
I have tried to do the factory reset by holding vol - and power and then pressing it again when the LG splash screen shows. When I select to hard reset the phone, it goes into fastboot mode.
Now, when I plug the device into the computer, the computer will not recognize it. I am using the manufacturer's data cable, I have tried multiple USB ports, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers countless times. Neither fastboot or ADB in command prompt recognize the device. However, the device does show that there is an android device plugged into the computer.
I have spent hours looking through every thread that addresses issues similar to this but I have not found a solution yet. What can I do from here?
First of all this belongs in Q&A not development.
Are you doing the hard key combo correctly? Power the phone down, when when it reboots is vibrates. When it vibrates you hold power and volume down. At the splash screen, you release it then hold them again.
Did you try this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
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Yes, I have tried that method.
Chris.Thompson said:
Yes, I have tried that method.
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When you held power up and volume on reboot, did you have it connected to the PC to see if you had download mode?
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-check your device manager and see if your computer recognizes it.
-Try another computer.
-Another USB cable
Your computer should recognize it since you had it recognize it before.
Yes, I have tried multiple usb cables and have tried to get into download mode both plugged into the pc and unplugged.
Am I correct in assuming that step one needs to be to find out how to get the computer to recognize the device?
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Am I correct in assuming that step one needs to be to find out how to get the computer to recognize the device?
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I wish I could help you out more, but you are definitely correct, computer has to recognize device...
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I have a Motorola Droid 4. I installed SafeStrap recently on it and installed CM11 to the stock rom (mistake I know). I kept running into issues and I finally sorted all of them out and I decided I wanted to restore back to stock and then install CM11 to a rom slot. I come to find out that I am unable to restore my stock backup as it keeps failing. So I then decide I am going to just go ahead and restore my CM11 backup to rom slot 1 and make it the active boot rom, but that turned out to fail to for whatever reason. I reboot my phone several times and received the Motorola logo followed by the dreaded Android on his back with his chest opened up and the exclamation point/triangle coming out of it.
So I gave in and decided to just go ahead and use the Droid Razr Utility that I have used before to reinstall the stock ROM and start all over. During this process everything seems to be going fine. I am able to boot into Fastboot, the PC recognized the phone and can see it. I then start the recovery by doing option "2" to wipe and install. My phone reboots a couple of times and then comes to the point of another reboot but the phone never turned back on. I've tried many button combinations to get this to boot up but nothing seems to respond. I have attached a screenshot of what the Droid Razr Utility showed when the phone was attempting to restart but never did.
I purchased a Fastboot cable to hopefully get me to the point of my PC recognizing the phone but that does not seem to work. When I plug in my phone Windows never detects anything. I removed all the drivers and nothing. If I plug the phone into a charger the Green light flashes for a split second. If I plug my phone into the computer the Green LED light will stay solid. According to Motorola this indicates that the battery is fully charged. I've tried reseating the battery to no avail.
So based on the information above and the attached screenshot, is my Droid 4 bricked and unusable now?
After doing a bunch of research I think I indeed bricked my phone. Since the ROM I tried flashing to my phone was not for the Droid 4 but rather the Droid RAZR, it looks like my phone is dead. I was hopeful and assumed that this would be able to be reversed by hooking up to a PC but apparently that is not the case. Perhaps I tripped the eFuse or something which is causing the boot loader to not initiate. I guess I need to get a new phone now unless someone has a nifty trick up their sleeve to get the phone accessible via a computer.
You are going to need a Team Black Hat cable, aka fastboot cable. Then plug it in, and run RSD Lite using the DROID 4's fastboot files. You can find the fastboot files at this website below. Download the one that matches the version of Android you have.
LINK: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=11
Ordered a factory cable on eBay; we shall see; thanks for the information
Even though my computer does not seem to recognize my phone when I plug it in. For example, I plug it in using the Fastboot cable and I never heard a sound from my computer like it knows something was just plugged in?
I did buy a fastboot cable from bluvector on amazon but that didn't seem to do anything for me. My Droid 4 still has a black screen and plays dead:crying:
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Ordered a factory cable on eBay; we shall see; thanks for the information
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Are you having the same problem as me? Your Droid 4 will not turn on and just sits at a black screen when you push the power button?
@sd_shadow you out there? I would love to hear your advice on my issue to see if there is any hope for my phone.
I received a FastBoot Cable but when I plug it in nothing happens. I also have a Kindle Fire HD and plugged the fastboot cable into it and powerd it down and back on and it boots normally. I'm wondering if the fastboot cable is faulty? Also I think my droid 4 may be completely shot since pushing the power button does nothing for me so I don't know how I could get back into Fastboot mode, unless a confirmed working fastboot cable will force the phone to boot and enter fastboot mode?
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@sd_shadow you out there? I would love to hear your advice on my issue to see if there is any hope for my phone.
I received a FastBoot Cable but when I plug it in nothing happens. I also have a Kindle Fire HD and plugged the fastboot cable into it and powerd it down and back on and it boots normally. I'm wondering if the fastboot cable is faulty? Also I think my droid 4 may be completely shot since pushing the power button does nothing for me so I don't know how I could get back into Fastboot mode, unless a confirmed working fastboot cable will force the phone to boot and enter fastboot mode?
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Motorola Devices will be powered by the Fastboot/Factory cable, when you connect the Droid 4 to pc via a fastboot cable, it should power on but you may need to select fastboot mode in bootmenu options.
Not sure about the kindle HD, but an Original Kindle Fire 1st gen, will boot direct to fastboot mode, when connected to a Fastboot cable
Both require Hardware cable and device to be working correctly.
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Motorola Devices will be powered by the Fastboot/Factory cable, when you connect the Droid 4 to pc via a fastboot cable, it should power on but you may need to select fastboot mode in bootmenu options.
Not sure about the kindle HD, but an Original Kindle Fire 1st gen, will boot direct to fastboot mode, when connected to a Fastboot cable
Both require Hardware cable and device to be working correctly.
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According to the description on the amazon site that I bought this cable from it shows the cable as being able to support Kindle Fire HD, that is why I am thinking that this cable is faulty, since it is not working on my droid nor is it working on my Kindle Fire.
I am thinking on buying a different one and returning my current one but i'm hesitant to do so. I have my doubts that this will allow my Droid 4 to boot up and/or be recognized by my computer. Since I get no response with the Vol-, Vol+, Power button combinations i'm thinking this is hard bricked because of the wrong files I flashed to it.
Before I made this mistake the phone was at least responsive showing the android/exclamation point screen. Then my dumbass ran the wrong flashing utility and that was all she wrote.
Do you think there is hope for my my phone even though the power button yields no response? If the fastboot cable will at least allow my phone to be recognized by my computer then I think i could save it, but that is where i have my doubts, but would love to try.
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According to the description on the amazon site that I bought this cable from it shows the cable as being able to support Kindle Fire HD, that is why I am thinking that this cable is faulty, since it is not working on my droid nor is it working on my Kindle Fire.
I am thinking on buying a different one and returning my current one but i'm hesitant to do so. I have my doubts that this will allow my Droid 4 to boot up and/or be recognized by my computer. Since I get no response with the Vol-, Vol+, Power button combinations i'm thinking this is hard bricked because of the wrong files I flashed to it.
Before I made this mistake the phone was at least responsive showing the android/exclamation point screen. Then my dumbass ran the wrong flashing utility and that was all she wrote.
Do you think there is hope for my my phone even though the power button yields no response? If the fastboot cable will at least allow my phone to be recognized by my computer then I think i could save it, but that is where i have my doubts, but would love to try.
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If you flashed Droid Razr firmware, yes it's bricked. or haven't seen anyone recovery from that yet.
@bean1975, did you have any luck with getting the fastboot cable to recover your phone?
Hi, Newbie question.
I have a 2nd Gen Kindle Tate that I was looking into installing CM11 on. Up until recently I have managed ok with it being rooted and running apks and apps from Google Play.
Major issue at the moment where I seem to be stuck
Here's what I have done:
A few months ago I had updated the Firmware to 7.5.1.
I had rooted it using Saferoot (Busybox), which has worked fine.
I tried to install CM11 but after failed attempts I found out it couldnt with the current firmware so needed to downgrade to 7.2.3 (Using KFHD_SRT_v1.3.0 tool )
I had stupidly replaced the boot.img & recovery.img files without a backup (BIG BIG mistake i know!)
I wasnt able to boot into the OS anymore
I also tried to install TWRP & COTR using the KFU 0.9.9
Since it turned off I hadnt been able to turn it on since.
I have tried leaving on the charge for hours and still nothing (2A cable).
I have a fastboot cable.
Is there anything I can do or is it completely dead?
Read somewhere before that you can short the KF to make it boot (sort of like a PSP Pandora battery). if this is true any guidance on this.
perhaps a SkOrPn cable?...but cannot find one
before you get too drastic. check adb drivers, a hard boot then plug in to pc
does your pc see the device at all when you plug it in? if so maybe try the KFfirstaide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54274465&postcount=3416
or this one
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You can restore a rooted stock image if you have the ability to get to fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951254
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doing the pin jump.
i got my other kindle into fastboot that way. but i didnt have a blank screen. and adb/fastboot still wont see it
im no guru. just at the point on that one that it didnt matter if it was bricked. i only noticed the other pins as the diagram kinda showed them in the same order. so i tried each one. lol
there is a group of 6 pins total.
power(no shut down. just on/off)* *
fastboot * *
Reboot/restart * *
http://mascote.me/images/kindle_fire_hd_7.jpg
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before you get too drastic. check adb drivers, a hard boot then plug in to pc
does your pc see the device at all when you plug it in? if so maybe try the KFfirstaide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54274465&postcount=3416
or this one
doing the pin jump.
i got my other kindle into fastboot that way. but i didnt have a blank screen. and adb/fastboot still wont see it
im no guru. just at the point on that one that it didnt matter if it was bricked. i only noticed the other pins as the diagram kinda showed them in the same order. so i tried each one. lol
there is a group of 6 pins total.
power(no shut down. just on/off)* *
fastboot * *
Reboot/restart * *
http://mascote.me/images/kindle_fire_hd_7.jpg
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so connect the pin to the copperish tape? or do i strip the tape??? need connection to mains?? total noob here.
any confirmation on this??? what's the next step?
and old thread...still no joy. any suggestions before i have to part with??
can anyone confirm HOW to unbrick this? jump the wire, etc?
dug this out of an old box................still in the same state, still an issue any updates?
I've tried both normal & recovery booting and it doesn't turn on. Doesn't show the flashing logo either so I think I might be SOL unless there's a way for me to save it .
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I've tried both normal & recovery booting and it doesn't turn on. Doesn't show the flashing logo either so I think I might be SOL unless there's a way for me to save it .
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If there is no sign of life, no known fix
send back to Amazon for a one time exchange if still under warranty
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Same thing just happened to me. I have a blank screen will not go into recovery mode or even pull up the screen.(black Screen) I just tried to downgrade to root. get nothing now. Take that back, my pc keeps beeping to leave me know a usb connectes, but then disconnects. tried different cables, one gives me a message USB Device not Recognized The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. Another Cable in Device manager pops up MediaTek PreLoasder USB VCOM (Android). then disappears like every 15 seconds.
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Same thing just happened to me. I have a blank screen will not go into recovery mode or even pull up the screen.(black Screen) I just tried to downgrade to root. get nothing now. Take that back, my pc keeps beeping to leave me know a usb connectes, but then disconnects. tried different cables, one gives me a message USB Device not Recognized The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. Another Cable in Device manager pops up MediaTek PreLoasder USB VCOM (Android). then disappears like every 15 seconds.
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The following downgrades will permanently brick device:
- 5.3.2.1 to any lower version (no rollbacks possible)
- 5.3.2.0 to any version below 5.3.1.0
- 5.3.1.0 to any lower version
- 5.1.4/5.1.3 to any version below 5.1.2
- 5.1.2/5.1.1 to any lower version
This information is clearly spelled out in forum index. Contact Amazon for an exchange if within warranty.