Another dead s3 mini - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I hard bricked mine s3 mini (yes, yes, i know...) and it won't boot at all. I've bought usb jig, but didn't help to boot in download mode. What now? [emoji20]

DomagojR said:
I hard bricked mine s3 mini (yes, yes, i know...) and it won't boot at all. I've bought usb jig, but didn't help to boot in download mode. What now? [emoji20]
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There's nothing else you could do - unless you have the equipment in order to JTAG it. Either claim warranty on it or search for repair stores nearby.

You think so? When I connect it to the pc, it keeps connecting and disconnecting, if that helps... There's nothing more to try?

DomagojR said:
I hard bricked mine s3 mini (yes, yes, i know...) and it won't boot at all. I've bought usb jig, but didn't help to boot in download mode. What now? [emoji20]
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Give it back to your seller, they won't know that it's rooted and they would probably replace it. Don't bother trying to get it out of hard brick.

KoolKid98189 said:
Give it back to your seller, they won't know that it's rooted and they would probably replace it. Don't bother trying to get it out of hard brick.
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Yeah, softbrick is easy to fix, but hardbrick means you've got a hard brick instead of a phone now xD Do what he said ^ and don't admit nothing, just say that suddenly it broke down

Haha and you both think that there is no chance that they will somehow see that custom binary and other things that avoid warranty?

DomagojR said:
Haha and you both think that there is no chance that they will somehow see that custom binary and other things that avoid warranty?
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We have hope xD

So, there is a possibility?

DomagojR said:
So, there is a possibility?
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Well, if the phone can't boot up and the guys aren't technicians, then yes, there is a pretty good chance noone will know what you've done to your phone!

DomagojR said:
Haha and you both think that there is no chance that they will somehow see that custom binary and other things that avoid warranty?
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Well if they can't switch it on then they can't see the custom binary...?
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koragg97 said:
Yeah, softbrick is easy to fix, but hardbrick means you've got a hard brick instead of a phone now xD Do what he said ^ and don't admit nothing, just say that suddenly it broke down
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Yeah, that happened with my S3 mini, it had semi hard brick... Well it could go into download mode and I flashed all kinds of stock ROMs, recoveries and params and it made no change whatsoever! How did I know this? I tried flashing stock recovery and when I booted into recovery, it just showed TeamWin splash screen for 1 second and shut off. So I determined that the eMMC chip is screwed up! I tried a repair shop but they gave up so I spoke to Amazon customer service saying that my phone just won't turn on so they gave me a free replacement (no quibbles) with a free complementary upgrade to first class. I just drained the battery by leaving it on download mode so they wouldn't easily found out! The contract of sales lies with the seller, not for you to wait a month for the manufacturer to fix it. Since then I haven't rooted it as I'm scared that it could brick again. That's why I wanted an official KitKat upgrade which Samsung don't give for bs reasons!

But what if they are able to fix it with jtag box or something?

KoolKid98189 said:
Well if they can't switch it on then they can't see the custom binary...?
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Since then I haven't rooted it as I'm scared that it could brick again. That's why I wanted an official KitKat upgrade which Samsung don't give for bs reasons!
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You can just use VRoot. It's easy to achieve root with it After rooting and installing a custom recovery ALWAYS do a nandroid backup before trying to flash or modify ANYTHING! That's what I do and never spend more than 10 mins (the time required to restore my nandroid) with a bricked phone

koragg97 said:
You can just use VRoot. It's easy to achieve root with it After rooting and installing a custom recovery ALWAYS do a nandroid backup before trying to flash or modify ANYTHING! That's what I do and never spend more than 10 mins (the time required to restore my nandroid) with a bricked phone
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But the thing is that I had KitKat by Maclaw for a while. Then one evening it was charging and it just died without warning. It was dead for one day and then it switched on but it just showed bootlogo and switched off. That's when I realised it was semi hard bricked.

KoolKid98189 said:
But the thing is that I had KitKat by Maclaw for a while. Then one evening it was charging and it just died without warning. It was dead for one day and then it switched on but it just showed bootlogo and switched off. Then when I realised it was semi hard bricked.
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That's why I stick with stock-based custom ROMs, zero or very little or minor bugs. No problems with me so far

This also happened to me. Without warning. I have the same experience as the OP. I keep hearing the connecting/disconnecting sound on my laptop when I connect it to my laptop.

koragg97 said:
That's why I stick with stock-based custom ROMs, zero or very little or minor bugs. No problems with me so far
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But then wouldn't I lose the warranty? And Maclaw's CM11 ROM was the best, I miss out on so many good features on stock and it's so much slower than CM11. I just don't want to end up having another bricked S3 mini though.
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hleotangco said:
This also happened to me. Without warning. I have the same experience as the OP. I keep hearing the connecting/disconnecting sound on my laptop when I connect it to my laptop.
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Don't bother trying to revive it if it's hard bricked. Because they won't find out about the root if they can't turn it on.

KoolKid98189 said:
But then wouldn't I lose the warranty? And Maclaw's CM11 ROM was the best, I miss out on so many good features on stock and it's so much slower than CM11. I just don't want to end up having another bricked S3 mini though.
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Don't bother trying to revive it if it's hard bricked. Because they won't find out about the root if they can't turn it on.
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thats the thing tho. my warranty just expired last month. now im thinking if i should buy a moto g. i just have to live without the sd card...

hleotangco said:
thats the thing tho. my warranty just expired last month. now im thinking if i should buy a moto g. i just have to live without the sd card...
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Oh, void or just finished?

KoolKid98189 said:
Oh, void or just finished?
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finished. I only have a year warranty for my phone. After it ended, I terminated my contract with my carrier cause it's more cost effective for me to just use pay-as-you-go sims...

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Phone Froze on rethink possible

my phone stuck on att rethink possible im rooted is there anything to restore it i tried to install rom manager and flash it then i tried to reboot it now its stuck on rethink possible can anyone help please?
I did the same thing when I bought this phone! The Optimus V recovery doesn't work for our Thrills (not surprisingly), but luckily there is a thread here by designgears that will get CWM up and running.
As for your current predicament, I think I just did a battery pull actually. If that doesn't work you're not out of luck, but try that first because I think that's all it took for me! Might want to factory reset your phone afterwords.
Komodo Rogue said:
I did the same thing when I bought this phone! The Optimus V recovery doesn't work for our Thrills (not surprisingly), but luckily there is a thread here by designgears that will get CWM up and running.
As for your current predicament, I think I just did a battery pull actually. If that doesn't work you're not out of luck, but try that first because I think that's all it took for me! Might want to factory reset your phone afterwords.
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whats battery pull let the battery drain or take the battery out i took it out already but it just keep getting stuck on att rethink thaanks
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i also holded vol down and power button booted into android recovery wiped everything and its still stuck on rethink possible i have insurannce can i take it back even though its rooted but stuck
Don't worry they wont know its rooted. Just don't tell them you broke lol and you will be fine.
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Need help to Hard Brick my phone

Yes, you read correct, I want to hard brick my phone not unbrick it but at the same time not leave traces of evidence of tampering. An unusual request it may be, but I have tried everything but just cannot get the damn thing to brick. I wanted to brick it and then experiment on possible ways to unbrick it. And then if all failed, I was going to send it back to Samsung to see if they find any traces of deliberate tampering. Come on geniuses...I know you're out there somewhere
Rom manager flash the wong recovery fr other devce
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DeadSp1d3r said:
Rom manager flash the wong recovery fr other devce
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+10000000 it's so easy
Thanks. Just downloading a Rom for the S5830i to try out. Wouldn't you be able to re-flash the correct rom this way and get it to work again? Also if it does brick this way, would it leave traces when Sammy Techs investigate?
Gizmotech said:
Thanks. Just downloading a Rom for the S5830i to try out. Wouldn't you be able to re-flash the correct rom this way and get it to work again? Also if it does brick this way, would it leave traces when Sammy Techs investigate?
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if you use rom manager samsung will not find out anything
if you flash other devices rom like acei on ace then it might brick but not for 100% sure but there is lots and lots of change that it will brick since it uses other flash scripts and binarys
Gizmotech said:
Yes, you read correct, I want to hard brick my phone not unbrick it but at the same time not leave traces of evidence of tampering. An unusual request it may be, but I have tried everything but just cannot get the damn thing to brick. I wanted to brick it and then experiment on possible ways to unbrick it. And then if all failed, I was going to send it back to Samsung to see if they find any traces of deliberate tampering. Come on geniuses...I know you're out there somewhere
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Just download a galaxy s3 ROM and kernel...bricked right there.
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Ok Just tried to load up the firmware file for a Ace Plus on odin 4.38 but it wont accept it and comes back with "out of memory" error on the PC screen. Will try Rom Manager.
Bingo! Bricked it. I take it there's no way that I can attempt to revive it? Also I hope there is no traces of CWM Rom Manager, Superuser or Busybox
I don't know about the traces. But the only way to revive it is JTAG or replacement motherboard.
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Next time, I'd rather make a backup in CWM and then restore it from another Recovery. What this does is delete the boot.img, so now your phone can't do anything and Samsung can't get any logs etc. from the device.
Also REMEMBER! Play dumb when taking it to the Samsung store! Don't mention Roms etc..
PulseDroid said:
Next time, I'd rather make a backup in CWM and then restore it from another Recovery. What this does is delete the boot.img, so now your phone can't do anything and Samsung can't get any logs etc. from the device.
Also REMEMBER! Play dumb when taking it to the Samsung store! Don't mention Roms etc..
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Or rename a text file to boot.img and flash it as a ROM. This gives a totally faulty ROM.
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Thanks guys, gonna give it in to service today and will keep you guys updated. I like the above method as it definitely would not leave traces of CWM, Superuser or Busybox. Duh, why didn't I think of that:silly: but too late now. maybe next time or someone else.
Gizmotech said:
Thanks guys, gonna give it in to service today and will keep you guys updated. I like the above method as it definitely would not leave traces of CWM, Superuser or Busybox. Duh, why didn't I think of that:silly: but too late now. maybe next time or someone else.
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Do you not ever think there is someone in samsung softwere development reading this...
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Best way to hardbrick your phone is to use rom manager
I got transformed into a potato while writing this post
athe_s said:
Do you not ever think there is someone in samsung softwere development reading this...
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I do. That's the good thing about having a screen-name
Updates!!!
Gizmotech said:
Thanks guys, gonna give it in to service today and will keep you guys updated.
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Any updates dude?
Wow. No wonder phone manufacturer doesn't honor warranty nowadays.
Seriously if u want to do such scam u should do it quietly without creating thread asking howto do so.
This is nice.... You can brick your phone in the last month of you year warranty and get a new phone/motherboard
Once my friends phone switched off suddenly... Non rooted stock
It happened suddenly and also out of warranty
She had to pay 5k to the Samsung people to get it repaired... And the plus point she got 14GB internal memory with the new motherboard
Her phone was the Samsung galaxy S i9000
it would've been done in free if she had warranty
So maybe you might get the GT S5830i.. The new version mother board or something
Best of luck
Gizmotech said:
Yes, you read correct, I want to hard brick my phone not unbrick it but at the same time not leave traces of evidence of tampering. An unusual request it may be, but I have tried everything but just cannot get the damn thing to brick. I wanted to brick it and then experiment on possible ways to unbrick it. And then if all failed, I was going to send it back to Samsung to see if they find any traces of deliberate tampering. Come on geniuses...I know you're out there somewhere
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ohh !!!! so easy !!! install rom manager... 100% sure samsung won't find out what went worng with your ace ...
ysrini said:
Any updates dude?
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Yes, the phone was repaired. They apparently replaced the motherboard.
an0nym0us_ said:
Wow. No wonder phone manufacturer doesn't honor warranty nowadays.
Seriously if u want to do such scam u should do it quietly without creating thread asking howto do so.
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I would have done it quietly if I didn't need the help. Duh! Besides, I doubt this is the reason why they don't honour warranty. I think it is more to do with that they are greedy corporate companies who would rather save at any cost irrespective of whose fault it is. I mean why should they penalise someone because of something someone else done? After all you are all paying customers. They scam people everyday and no one complains. I guess people only complain when it happens to them. You can buy a new phone and have it go faulty within 2 months. Do you think you can get a new phone under warranty from them? No it will be a refurbished one and doesn't mater how much you scream and shout for a new one, they don't care. A neither do I.
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So maybe you might get the GT S5830i.. The new version mother board or something
Best of luck
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No, I think it is the same motherboard. What I don't understand is, whether it is the same motherboard they repaired or a replacement one, as this phone was initially locked to the Three network. I had it unlocked. So a new motherboard would have meant that the phone would be locked again. But when I received it back, it would still accept any sims.

totally dead note

hi ppl i need help i was flashing my note with ReVolt-JB-20130107 everything was going well, i nipped out of the room for 2 mins and the phone was dead wont go into recovery or download mode so not detected by odin
iv pulled the battery and still nothing ?, i got the phone 2nd hand so dont think it will have warranty
is it fit for bin or is it fixable :crying: cheers
What was your phone configuration before flashing the revolt rom?
Test.......
Looks familiar?
i rooted the note off the sdcard with cwm
then i installed superSU
then was installing revolt when it happened
Ok so you used cwm.zip from the sd card to get cwm recovery. The you flash supersu. You got root. Then how did you get cwm?
If you have flashed the rom using cwm.zip, the phone is probably bricked.
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Same case
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2116087
nokiamodeln91 said:
Ok so you used cwm.zip from the sd card to get cwm recovery. The you flash supersu. You got root. Then how did you get cwm?
If you have flashed the rom using cwm.zip, the phone is probably bricked.
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Same case
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2116087
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I don't have my first coffee finished and so maybe I'm too sensitive right now. But why are the numbers of people using CWM.zip and getting into trouble raising?
So he should do the same as other members in the last days: check the eMMC and if bricked use the repartition workaround (see hg42's thread for detailed informations and howtos).
Or send the device to Samsung for a motherboard replacement and complete repair.
Edit: better to follow a hint that nokiamodeln91 gave before to another "bricker". In that case it helped. Use the e2fsck-method for check and possible repair. See the thread here for the help and details nokiamodeln91 gave in the other case.
iv used cwm loads of times with no trouble does anyone think a jig will help or send it to be repaired by jtag
its out off warranty so cant send it ss
also i put my note on charge last nite got up this morning to find the battery cold? its usually warm after charging alnight
Good morning Thai. It's not just you. But all of a sudden cwm.zip has creeped up again. Don't know how?
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terry1256 said:
iv used cwm loads of times with no trouble does anyone think a jig will help or send it to be repaired by jtag
its out off warranty so cant send it ss
also i put my note on charge last nite got up this morning to find the battery cold? its usually warm after charging alnight
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If what you install using cwm.zip does not have a wipe command (installing supersu, rooting) , you could survive using it. But when you install a rom or perform a wipe, it's going to do all sorts of bad things to your phone.
got a jig this morning but no luck:crying: does anybody no if a jtag will work coz iv found a site that will do jtag for £30 :fingers-crossed:
There is no guarantee that a JTAG will work. Most of the times it won't if the cpu is fried
How can a software damage a hardware? I don't understand.
There should be a tutorial for doos and don't doos, for a new note owner before he tries root and flash a rom, with strict warnings and must be read. I feel sorry for all those who get into trouble / bricks. I think you are a right person to write up.
Edit : covering all possibilities of bricks, complete and comprehensive.
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ThaiDai said:
....But why are the numbers of people using CWM.zip and getting into trouble raising?....
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I think it's because people get it off YouTube, RootGalaxyNote.com and other places where there are no warnings about the dangers of CWM.zip. Then after they get into trouble with it, they come here.....
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yeak i went on galaxynoteroot.com and it said it fool proof
found a site in uk that say they can fix my GN for £30 anybody think this will work
terry1256 said:
found a site in uk that say they can fix my GN for £30 anybody think this will work
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Search in XDA for the "site name" and see if some members tell something about them.
If I would brick my device (until now I was lucky), I would bite the bullet (I checked Leo.org for the translation of "in den sauren Apfel beissen") and send it to Samsung for repair.
Even if they make the workaround for this money you'll never have a fully working device again.
sold now gonna buy another thanks for everybody that replyed :victory:

H811 completely dead

Hey there everyone, here to report unfortunate news about my g4 has died all out. Was using it to navigate using maps to a job yesterday, when suddenly my phone reboots and gets in boot loop. I take off battery to boot up phone back on, but turns out it doesn't at all respond to turn on, I try the hard master reset buttons to then boot to twrp but not even that responds. Weird cuz I had 40 percent battery left, connected phone to my charger and three more and no response at all in boot up or even sign of life. What can I do?
I have the same problem, phone wont respond at all and it was doing a boot loop, now it just wont turn on or respond to charging/no led light, nothing.
What are my options?
Rooted/No Insurance.
ExhumedWolf said:
I have the same problem, phone wont respond at all and it was doing a boot loop, now it just wont turn on or respond to charging/no led light, nothing.
What are my options?
Rooted/No Insurance.
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That's weird how this has happened when i was running completely stock rom 10n rooted. Sucks that my screen has a very thin hairline crack which T-Mobile told me that LG won't accept it for warranty since it has physical damage.
Is there a way to restore the phone to complete stock using download mode? I'm in the same boat and now need to research a solution before returning to T-Mobile. This happened to a friend, too.
In my case, I was playing Fallout Shelter, the phone froze, so I did a battery pull. Now it won't boot up. Sometimes I can get it to go as far as the "Android is upgrading screen, " but then it either freezes again or goes into a bootloop. Tried booting into TWRP, but it either won't, or it'll freeze while inside before I can attempt to restore a backup or anything.
partylikeaninjastar said:
Is there a way to restore the phone to complete stock using download mode? I'm in the same boat and now need to research a solution before returning to T-Mobile. This happened to a friend, too.
In my case, I was playing Fallout Shelter, the phone froze, so I did a battery pull. Now it won't boot up. Sometimes I can get it to go as far as the "Android is upgrading screen, " but then it either freezes again or goes into a bootloop. Tried booting into TWRP, but it either won't, or it'll freeze while inside before I can attempt to restore a backup or anything.
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Tried to boot in download mode and haven't been able since this occured. Nothing at all works for me in booting up to anything through the buttons, hopefully you can get DL mode working so you can get your g4 working back to normal.
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Tried to boot in download mode and haven't been able since this occured. Nothing at all works for me in booting up to anything through the buttons, hopefully you can get DL mode working so you can get your g4 working back to normal.
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When I tried, I was able to boot into download mode, I didn't have any KDZ or whatever downloaded already or the flash tool in order to actually do anything so it was pointless, but it appears to boot into DL mode with no issue. For all I know, though, even though it booted into DL mode, it could have been completely frozen and unresponsive.
I think I found a thread with instructions and a link to the KDZ I need to download. Going to give this a try when I get home from work in twelve hours. If that fail, it's off to T-Mobile I go....
I have the same issue. I was browsing G+ then the phone just froze and now I can't get it to boot up or get into twrp. It will only boot loop.
Edit 1: I got my phone to boot and did a factory reset but it just ended up freezing and rebooting just like before. I'm going to try and get into twrp and flash the 10n stock then go to t-mobile to try and get them to get me a new one. I have insurance but the phone just randomly died, no dropping, didn't get it wet, so I don't want to have to pay a deductible.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/guide-lg-g4-stock-firmware-to-stock-kdz-t3107848
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That's to the lasted 10n version boot loader,DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT FLASH THE BOOTLOADER TO A LOWER VERSION THEN YOU ALREADY HAVE! you will be beyond ****ed and not even lg can help you at that point..the bootladers have backwards protection to if you haven't updated to marshmallow flash the 10n bootloader( the most lasted bootloader for lp) and you should be fine.the lg flash tool should be included but be careful guys..I can't stress enough how important it is you flash the right BL..you will perma brick
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That's to the lasted 10n version boot loader,DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT FLASH THE BOOTLOADER TO A LOWER VERSION THEN YOU ALREADY HAVE! you will be beyond ****ed and not even lg can help you at that point..the bootladers have backwards protection to if you haven't updated to marshmallow flash the 10n bootloader( the most lasted bootloader for lp) and you should be fine.the lg flash tool should be included but be careful guys..I can't stress enough how important it is you flash the right BL..you will perma brick
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Thanks for the reminder. That's the thread I found and I also already made a mental note to flash the right image. My friend had this same problem and the person she tasked with fixing her phone flashed the wrong image and perma bricked her. Fortunately, T-Mobile still replaced her phone, though.
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mr turtle droid said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/g4/general/guide-lg-g4-stock-firmware-to-stock-kdz-t3107848
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That's to the lasted 10n version boot loader,DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT FLASH THE BOOTLOADER TO A LOWER VERSION THEN YOU ALREADY HAVE! you will be beyond ****ed and not even lg can help you at that point..the bootladers have backwards protection to if you haven't updated to marshmallow flash the 10n bootloader( the most lasted bootloader for lp) and you should be fine.the lg flash tool should be included but be careful guys..I can't stress enough how important it is you flash the right BL..you will perma brick
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That's true and I have not flashed nothing at all and only remained all on 10n rom and bootloader and modem. Yet this still happened to me.
My phone lives!
partylikeaninjastar said:
My phone lives!
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That's amazing news!!!!
Actually, I take it back. It stopped working after an hour and started doing the same thing. On my way to T-Mobile in a bit.
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partylikeaninjastar said:
My phone lives!
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partylikeaninjastar said:
Actually, I take it back. It stopped working after an hour and started doing the same thing. On my way to T-Mobile in a bit.
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Let us know how it goes with T-Mobile. I was planning on getting my phone back to stock and then going to T-Mobile. I haven't had any luck bringing my phone back.
WillDeC said:
Let us know how it goes with T-Mobile. I was planning on getting my phone back to stock and then going to T-Mobile. I haven't had any luck bringing my phone back.
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No hassle at all. Surprisingly. He just asked me what happened, then ordered my replacement to be delivered. Will have a new phone on Tuesday.
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WillDeC said:
Let us know how it goes with T-Mobile. I was planning on getting my phone back to stock and then going to T-Mobile. I haven't had any luck bringing my phone back.
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I have great news everyone! Today I was cleaning my room. And just moved my g4 around onto my bed and then I see that the screen comes on saying I need to charge it. Which then I plug in and it charges now. I then wait a good while, get it to magically boot onto twrp. So excited and only option was to wipe all except the storages. I did, then flashed 10n rom again, not its back to life with no issues. Need to go to T-Mobile to connect it back on.
partylikeaninjastar said:
No hassle at all. Surprisingly. He just asked me what happened, then ordered my replacement to be delivered. Will have a new phone on Tuesday.
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Good to hear. I just want to try and get it to stock. Sometime I can get to boot twrp and don't want to have to deal with them questioning about if they try and factory reset it or something.
WillDeC said:
Good to hear. I just want to try and get it to stock. Sometime I can get to boot twrp and don't want to have to deal with them questioning about if they try and factory reset it or something.
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Reason why this issue has occurred is most likely in my opinion because of xposed. There is versions that work and those that aren't so stable in certain devices. What I advise you to do is boot into twrp when you get the chance, wipe all except the storages. You will notice how stable the phone gets and won't be bootlooping, which is what I noticed. Then flash whatever rom you have. Boot up, skip all intro steps, download the zip to get it to stock so you get the replacement. Keep telling T-Mobile that maybe at the moment it seems stable but it does this and you have gotten so fed up with it and won't be leaving until a replacement takes place. Either warranty or at store.
wadamean said:
Reason why this issue has occurred is most likely in my opinion because of xposed. There is versions that work and those that aren't so stable in certain devices. What I advise you to do is boot into twrp when you get the chance, wipe all except the storages. You will notice how stable the phone gets and won't be bootlooping, which is what I noticed. Then flash whatever rom you have. Boot up, skip all intro steps, download the zip to get it to stock so you get the replacement. Keep telling T-Mobile that maybe at the moment it seems stable but it does this and you have gotten so fed up with it and won't be leaving until a replacement takes place. Either warranty or at store.
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I've never put xposed on this phone. I put twrp, rooted and was using a debloated rom. I had actually removed root so I could use android pay. It was working fine then just froze and constant reboots and freezing. I've only been able to get into twrp once without it freezing and rebooting,
WillDeC said:
I've never put xposed on this phone. I put twrp, rooted and was using a debloated rom. I had actually removed root so I could use android pay. It was working fine then just froze and constant reboots and freezing. I've only been able to get into twrp once without it freezing and rebooting,
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You shouldn't have removed root and just used root cloak so that android pay thinks your unrooted. That's what I have been using. Because debloated roms always come injected with root and at times it becomes their core use within to function. When you get the chance to boot into twrp. Wipe all except storages and then reflash.

Possible bricked LG G4

I tried flashing the marshmallow update that was just released (a very, very idiotic move) I flashed it the first time and all seemed well; everything flashed with no errors, and it rebooted. Well, upon reboot, I get the dreaded Factory Reset Status 2. Okay, no big deal, I just realized that I forgot to select "BOARD DL". I got to try to flash again, this time selected BOARD. Now, I get a dodownloaderror at 18s. Every time. I have tried everything, battery pulls, reflashing, I even tried reflashing ZV6 (this is probably what dug my grave). Nothing. I can still boot to recovery and DL mode, but nothing is working. I didn't put a stock img on my internal storage, so sideloading from recovery isn't an option either.
I am such an idiot. Now I have a paperweight, and it is going to cost me several hundred, if not a thousand, dollars to end my contract on the brick and then go out and buy a new phone.
Does anyone have an methods that I haven't tried?
Did I mention that I am a huge idiot?
ironbesterer said:
I tried flashing the marshmallow update that was just released (a very, very idiotic move) I flashed it the first time and all seemed well; everything flashed with no errors, and it rebooted. Well, upon reboot, I get the dreaded Factory Reset Status 2. Okay, no big deal, I just realized that I forgot to select "BOARD DL". I got to try to flash again, this time selected BOARD. Now, I get a dodownloaderror at 18s. Every time. I have tried everything, battery pulls, reflashing, I even tried reflashing ZV6 (this is probably what dug my grave). Nothing. I can still boot to recovery and DL mode, but nothing is working. I didn't put a stock img on my internal storage, so sideloading from recovery isn't an option either.
I am such an idiot. Now I have a paperweight, and it is going to cost me several hundred, if not a thousand, dollars to end my contract on the brick and then go out and buy a new phone.
Does anyone have an methods that I haven't tried?
Did I mention that I am a huge idiot?
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Same here..
Why are you both flashing MM? Is there an official image to flash?
EmSeeMAC said:
Why are you both flashing MM? Is there an official image to flash?
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That's why I'm an idiot. It's not an official .TOT.
ironbesterer said:
That's why I'm an idiot. It's not an official .TOT.
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I fixed mines using LG UP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-g4/development/howto-downgrade-to-zv6-upgrade-to-t3265976
This should help you fix the dreaded 2
If you can boot into download mode, flash the ROM for your phone on sammobile
Just say you installed an update and it bricked your phone if it's still under warranty. I dunno how many times I botched my G Flex 2 and LG replaced it (ATT model).
Why is it gonna cost you $1000.00. At worst you just buy another phone.
But the cheapest is to add TEP and bring it in. You might want to brick it hard enough that they cannot see that it was every rooted though
He fixed it
ironbesterer said:
I tried flashing the marshmallow update that was just released (a very, very idiotic move) I flashed it the first time and all seemed well; everything flashed with no errors, and it rebooted. Well, upon reboot, I get the dreaded Factory Reset Status 2. Okay, no big deal, I just realized that I forgot to select "BOARD DL". I got to try to flash again, this time selected BOARD. Now, I get a dodownloaderror at 18s. Every time. I have tried everything, battery pulls, reflashing, I even tried reflashing ZV6 (this is probably what dug my grave). Nothing. I can still boot to recovery and DL mode, but nothing is working. I didn't put a stock img on my internal storage, so sideloading from recovery isn't an option either.
I am such an idiot. Now I have a paperweight, and it is going to cost me several hundred, if not a thousand, dollars to end my contract on the brick and then go out and buy a new phone.
Does anyone have an methods that I haven't tried?
Did I mention that I am a huge idiot?
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Okay, if you can get to download mode, then use the 'send_command' batch file to adb push a stock image to /dev/media/0/ then dd it.
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mswlogo said:
Why is it gonna cost you $1000.00. At worst you just buy another phone.
But the cheapest is to add TEP and bring it in. You might want to brick it hard enough that they cannot see that it was every rooted though
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Hahaha this.
With a bootloader that's totally locked down you can just say that you accepted an OTA and your battery died while it was flashing and now your phone is screwed.
agentfusion said:
Okay, if you can get to download mode, then use the 'send_command' batch file to adb push a stock image to /dev/media/0/ then dd it.
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Hahaha this.
With a bootloader that's totally locked down you can just say that you accepted an OTA and your battery died while it was flashing and now your phone is screwed.
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It would be close to a thousand to pay off my current device (around $300 owed on it) and then go out and buy a new one. But, with autoprime and awesomeslayerg's help, I got my phone back to normal.
I'm glad I seen this before I tried that

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