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Bricked Droid 3

Can't get my phone into recovery at all after trying to get the new up date. Only way it comes on is by plugging it into the wall, and the only way to get it to turn off is to pull the battery. Besides the Motorola sign when it is on, that is all it does right now. I think what caused this is using safestrap instead of boot strap. Here are more details from a convo with an acquaintance. BTW, I've tried the technique for getting it to boot in recovery a 1000 times but have been unsucessful.
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I need to run something by you if you got the time. Hit me back if you do. BTW, here's a screen shot with the DarkDroid ROM. I'm pretty proud of it being a noob at this stuff and all.
homescreen looks sick man. Liking the launcher too.
Been waiting on the Galaxy Nexus...going to drop my X for this.
What's up?
Thanks. Btw, I fell asleep waiting on the files to transfer to my phone. When I woke up it was bricked
I backed up EVERYTHING on the sd, I just need to figure out how to get the phone past the bootloop now. Hopefully I can get it done connected to the laptop, but any advice would be appreciated. The guys on xda were a little vaugue on the directions.
Did you clear data/cache before installing the files?
I would boot back into recovery and do this. It won't delete the files you just installed, just all the old data (system settings, etc) in your phone.
I'd try a few battery pulls first.
If that doesn't work, enter into recovery from here:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/d...-recovery.html
And wipe data/cache, then reboot.
If I plug it into a power source, the motorola emblem comes up, but nothing else. It won't even power off. Power + X or M doesn't do a damn thing, and if I plug it into my computer it also does nothing at all. The laptop doesn't even recognize it or even try to charge it as far as I can tell.
After Power + X did you hit the volume buttons in the guide like it says?
You probably did but just wanted to make sure.
You're only other choice seems to flash a fastboot file.
These are about the easiest instructions you'll find.
I've never done on a D3, but looks right to me.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/4370-sbf-...959-and-56890/
Don't turn on your phone to charge it, leave it off and charge it.
Unless you can tell me how to install/uninstall programs located on the internal and external memory of the phone when I can't get it to turn on (even in recovery mode), I'm fairly certain I'm screwed. I believe that my only hope originally was to be able to access the memory via laptop to be able to get it into recovery. That ROM I put on had to use this http://www.hash-of-codes.com/files/Droid3Safestrap.apk, which won't work for the factory update, which has to use this http://download.clockworkmod.com//te...3Bootstrap.apk. So even though I have all the programs that I need on the memory of the phone to get the factory update then reinstall the custom ROM, I can't get the phone on so that I can install and uninstall the programs necessary for recovery. I should never have messed with my phone when I was half asleep to begin with.
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Well, I finally got it into put after working on it since 7am.

Look at my post on the 5 minute unbrick if you need it
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ChaoticWeaponry said:
Look at my post on the 5 minute unbrick if you need it
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Well, I got it unbricked, but it was a real trick to get it done. Like I mentioned before, I suspected an issue with battery power, because when it was plugged in for charging, the screen stayed on with the motorola logo displayed. As everyone knows, this uses a lot of power. Even being plugged in to the wall (phone WOULD NOT turn off), it was using most of the power that was supposed to be charging the battery. This is what I did to bypass the problem.
1. Let charge all night
2. Hit X + power (M + power WOULD NOT work) simultanously,then slowly inserted phone end of USB cord that was already plugged into the wall
3. After the Motorola logo displayed on the screen, I closed the keyboard and waited for the Andoid avatar to be displayed. Once he popped up, I hit the volume button up and down at the same time, which FINALLY got it into recovery.
4. Factory reset by toggleing to that option and hitting power button.
5. Once factory reset was complete, I selected the ZIPPED leak update and hit the power button.
6. After update completed, system reboot. Phone kept its root status and the DarkDroid ROM

Btw, does this info look right (asking anyone who knows). Phone is supposed to be updated with Verizon update, rooted, and running DarkDroid ROM
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everything looks up to date!

i thought the new version was 5.7.x? wasnt the old one 5.6.890?

MrJudylicious said:
i thought the new version was 5.7.x? wasnt the old one 5.6.890?
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You are correct my friend.

MrJudylicious said:
i thought the new version was 5.7.x? wasnt the old one 5.6.890?
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You are correct my friend.
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Well crap, here I go again...

Hashcode said:
** And, I know that the file name is our current version. It's something Verizon does with the patch filenames where they use the version of the OS that it applies to.
ChaoticWeaponry said:
You are correct my friend.
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What about what I quoted from Hashcode?
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Grimace78 said:
Hashcode said:
** And, I know that the file name is our current version. It's something Verizon does with the patch filenames where they use the version of the OS that it applies to.
What about what I quoted from Hashcode?
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Verizon is weird about their update names. if youre going from 1.1.1 to 2.2.2, then the update name would be Verizon.1.1.1 I have no idea why.
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My Samsung Galaxy Ace won't turn on!!!!!

Hello, recently i've flashed my galaxy ace with rom manager (ClockworkMod) so i can make the partition thing to my sd card, so i flashed it, turn it off, and then i won't turn on. I can't even charge my phone! I tried to turn it on in reboot mode but it doesn't do anything. I even tried to turn on download mode and nothing. Not even the samsung logo shows up. Nothing! I'm desesperated, I don't know what to do now. I'm new in this forum, so I will be very very thankful if someone could help me on this. Please.

First, ROM MANAGER BRICKS SAMSUNG GALAXY ACE!
Second, YOUR PHONE IS DEAD. TRY A USB JIG OR GOTO SERVICE CENTER.
Third, WHO TOLD YOU TO USE ROM MANAGER?
Fourth, LIE TO SERVICE CENTER TELLING THAT YOU WERE CHARGING YOUR PHONE AND IT TURNED OFF AND IT NEVER TURNED ON. DO NOT MENTION WORDS LIKE "BRICK","ROOT","ROM MANAGER".
Fifth, Welcome to the world of XDA Developers. DO read the threads with a pin icon in front (A.K.A Sticky)

Xr01d_GT said:
First, ROM MANAGER BRICKS SAMSUNG GALAXY ACE!
Second, YOUR PHONE IS DEAD. TRY A USB JIG OR GOTO SERVICE CENTER.
Third, WHO TOLD YOU TO USE ROM MANAGER?
Fourth, LIE TO SERVICE CENTER TELLING THAT YOU WERE CHARGING YOUR PHONE AND IT TURNED OFF AND IT NEVER TURNED ON. DO NOT MENTION WORDS LIKE "BRICK","ROOT","ROM MANAGER".
Fifth, Welcome to the world of XDA Developers. DO read the threads with a pin icon in front (A.K.A Sticky)
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I never understand, that people who buys a new device, why don't read something about it??? Before I buy my Ace, I read a lot about it, I knew, that it's prohibited to use Rom Manager on Ace... There's a lot of info about it...

Another lost to the dark side of rom manager. Rip the poor thing.

Firstly..CWM ROM Manager?
and ROM manger for partition? all you needed was the CWM Recovery.
We have stickies here for a reason and if you dont read them, do not create new threads when you have problems..

a time try to flash my phone with new firmware, and my phone can't turn on, becouse one input of firmware wrong, and then i try to leave baterry and then, try to go download mode again and flash with new firmware, wait flashing finish and my phone can turn on again.
hopefully working with your phone.

v-ace-1 said:
a time try to flash my phone with new firmware, and my phone can't turn on, becouse one input of firmware wrong, and then i try to leave baterry and then, try to go download mode again and flash with new firmware, wait flashing finish and my phone can turn on again.
hopefully working with your phone.
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Let's give a try, but I think it won't work. Rom Manager hard bricks Ace, and even download mode won't work. Bring it to service center...

armando58 said:
Hello, recently i've flashed my galaxy ace with rom manager (ClockworkMod) so i can make the partition thing to my sd card, so i flashed it, turn it off, and then i won't turn on. I can't even charge my phone! I tried to turn it on in reboot mode but it doesn't do anything. I even tried to turn on download mode and nothing. Not even the samsung logo shows up. Nothing! I'm desesperated, I don't know what to do now. I'm new in this forum, so I will be very very thankful if someone could help me on this. Please.
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fashing your handphone via odin and you must download firmware in samfirmware.com
maybe your CWM not support or crash for yoaur handphone

armando58 said:
Hello, recently i've flashed my galaxy ace with rom manager (ClockworkMod) so i can make the partition thing to my sd card, so i flashed it, turn it off, and then i won't turn on. I can't even charge my phone! I tried to turn it on in reboot mode but it doesn't do anything. I even tried to turn on download mode and nothing. Not even the samsung logo shows up. Nothing! I'm desesperated, I don't know what to do now. I'm new in this forum, so I will be very very thankful if someone could help me on this. Please.
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You can use usb jig to force boot into download mode but there's a small chance for it to work
Google usb jig
Sent from. . . . .NOWHERE!

Have you ever heard something like "don't do something unless you know what you are doing", well this is very useful. There's a reason that none on ace developement doesn't use or recomends ROM manager. Brick.
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Xr01d_GT said:
Fourth, LIE TO SERVICE CENTER TELLING THAT YOU WERE CHARGING YOUR PHONE AND IT TURNED OFF AND IT NEVER TURNED ON.
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This actually happened to my phone. Is it a known fault? Is there a way to repair it without taking it to a service centre 30 miles away?

Your device wont turn on?
I wonder why?
Perhaps its got something to do with the fact that you have broken your device into pieces. Not literally but oh well u get the point.
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Sikorsky96 said:
Your device wont turn on?
I wonder why?
Perhaps its got something to do with the fact that you have broken your device into pieces. Not literally but oh well u get the point.
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If you're responding to me, I don't get your point. I haven't broken it into pieces, literally or otherwise. I haven't modified the OS in any way since I got it. I plugged it in to charge. It is meant to be able to charge.

You're ace is brick go to repair centre if you have the warranty just say you don't know how this happen, or buy a new phone...

gn1989 said:
If you're responding to me, I don't get your point. I haven't broken it into pieces, literally or otherwise. I haven't modified the OS in any way since I got it. I plugged it in to charge. It is meant to be able to charge.
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He isnt replying to you!

i face that problem too, after i search the entire thread in this forum then i found this method. try this, maybe it can help :
- pull out your battery
- press the vol down+home+power n in the same time then pull in your battery (if you can't do it alone, ask somebody to help you pull in the battery)
- wait (n pray maybe ) until download mode appear
hope it can help you..:fingers-crossed:

happened the same
i tried flashing stock rom froyo 2.2.1 from odin it cme up as pass but when i dsiconetted nothing happened my phone is ****ed help me anyone it wont even show the samsung logo what do u advise me to do i live in india should i go o the service center or what

Come on everyone!!
Rather than making snide comments, we SHOULD be helping him.
Here, check this out it helped my friend when he bricked his SGA.
Un-Bricking SGA
And remember, from now on use CWM Recovery, or if you want then use ODIN,
BUT NEVER, EVER USE ROM MANAGER. IT'S THE SHINIGAMI FOR OUR PHONE!!!

Another victim of ROM Manager. RIP.
Inviato dal mio GT-S5830

My Galaxy S Advance dead. HELP PLZ

My Galaxy S Advance dead after software update. I was getting again and again bugged by this notification saying a software update is available. so i finally updated and after the download completed it asked for a reboot and i pressed yes. Once it shutdown it is not starting back up. I dont know what to do. Plz Guyz help me.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1985398
Or take it to Samsung care, you didn't do anything to lose waranty.
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shut_down said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1985398
Or take it to Samsung care, you didn't do anything to lose waranty.
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The problem is i dont have warranty. A frnd bought this phone from bangkok. Right now i am in india. So no warranty. The phone is dead. I cant even put it in download mode.

kOoL tHuG said:
The problem is i dont have warranty. A frnd bought this phone from bangkok. Right now i am in india. So no warranty. The phone is dead. I cant even put it in download mode.
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Somebody else will answer you about that. I do not know. It seem you hard bricked it...

may be ur battery is not charged try to charged it
if nothing happen try go in recovery mode (VOLUME UP+HOME+POWER) and do factory reset
i think u did something wrong while installing update bcuz samsung never provide update which hard brick our phone
and plz try again to go in download mode by pressing
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2) HOME Then
3) POWER
FOLLOW STEPS MAYBE IT WILL WORKS
or
try dis
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kOoL tHuG said:
My Galaxy S Advance dead after software update. I was getting again and again bugged by this notification saying a software update is available. so i finally updated and after the download completed it asked for a reboot and i pressed yes. Once it shutdown it is not starting back up. I dont know what to do. Plz Guyz help me.
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Did you make sure there was sufficient battery before updating ?
Does adb detect the device ?
I do not respond to tech support via PM

naitik2012 said:
may be ur battery is not charged try to charged it
if nothing happen try go in recovery mode (VOLUME UP+HOME+POWER) and do factory reset
i think u did something wrong while installing update bcuz samsung never provide update which hard brick our phone
and plz try again to go in download mode by pressing
1) VOLUME DOWN
2) HOME Then
3) POWER
FOLLOW STEPS MAYBE IT WILL WORKS
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I will try those. Thanks for the suggestion.

Anyone else installed that update? Because i did, and after instaling the update files in recovery mode the phone rebooted and now is dead, and by dead I mean no charging, no download mode, no recovery.... not even that short vibration when you push the power button

Never use ota updates with custom recovery!
I do not respond to tech support via PM

I had stock recovery, maybe the problem was the XXLD1 open europe firmware I flashed insted of my region firmware XXLF4. Now I'm just curios what that update (17.8 mb) was suposed to change

Shaaan said:
Never use ota updates with custom recovery!
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y? Will It Hard Brick Our S advance?

I recently did a ota update with stock kernel and with recently i meant yesterday also prompting me to update which i did...updating my phone from XXLD1 to XXLK2 without any problem ....but i did charge my batts before i did....

ophty said:
I had stock recovery, maybe the problem was the XXLD1 open europe firmware I flashed insted of my region firmware XXLF4. Now I'm just curios what that update (17.8 mb) was suposed to change
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You probably downloaded a corrupt update .
I give up writing anymore signatures.

Hello, this is my first post here on XDA
A friend of mine has the same problem like the OP and "opthy":
I installed the XLD1 FW over his old FW because of rooting (without increasing the binary counter). I said to him he shouldnt do FW Updates OTA from now on. And what do you think he did, huh? :silly:
The phone rebooted into recovery he said, did the FW update and tried to reboot, but it couldnt reboot. He gave it to me, and I tried to get it into recovery = didnt work! Tried to get it into Download-Mode = didnt work! The phone does nothing now, i tried to charge it, but the screen stays black.
I just wanted to ask you, if theres anything I can do. All things that have to do with download-mode e.g. ODIN or recovery via KIES cannot work because I cant put it in download-mode.
Thanks in advance
5-7
P.S.: Im an P990 owner and I had many many problems with it until I got it working properly, but such a problem, that the screen always stays black and the device is "not a bit" booting, I never had before

Univer_Sam said:
I recently did a ota update with stock kernel and with recently i meant yesterday also prompting me to update which i did...updating my phone from XXLD1 to XXLK2 without any problem ....but i did charge my batts before i did....
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Could You share any changes you notice after the upgrade??
The update have also popped on my phone yesterday. Is it really safe to update? By the way mine is XXLD1 and the update is to XXLK2. I'm really scared to update because I bought my phone from the grey market(much cheaper hahaha). Another reason is I want a white SGSA and the only one available was from europe and I'm in the Philippines so warranty might not be on my reach.
Is it worth the upgrade? cause if its not the I would just wait for the JB update next year.

boot problem

hi, after installing busybox from google play and pressed install , my phone suddenly turned off. after that i couldnt turn it back on. im stuck at boot screen. i tried recovery mode and i tried the download mode, but nothing. i did factory reset and nothing. currently im trying to find a way to restore but my pc doesnt "see" the device if it cant boot. is there any way to do something to fix it ? any way. it was rooted. now after the factory reset which didnt do anything i suppose its not rooted anymore. its on jelly bean 4.1.2 . or at least it was when it could boot....

kessaras said:
hi, after installing busybox from google play and pressed install , my phone suddenly turned off. after that i couldnt turn it back on. im stuck at boot screen. i tried recovery mode and i tried the download mode, but nothing. i did factory reset and nothing. currently im trying to find a way to restore but my pc doesnt "see" the device if it cant boot. is there any way to do something to fix it ? any way. it was rooted. now after the factory reset which didnt do anything i suppose its not rooted anymore. its on jelly bean 4.1.2 . or at least it was when it could boot....
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You can get into download mode right? Flash stock rom again through a kdz flashing method. You can find it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069723 and the stock firmware here http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=15

nmbbf said:
You can get into download mode right? Flash stock rom again through a kdz flashing method. You can find it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069723 and the stock firmware here http://lg-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=15
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i cant step 6. to get to the s/w upgrade screen. it sais i turn off ,remove battery , hold down volume down, wait, plug in usb. ... i only get a blank screen with white/black stripes

kessaras said:
i cant step 6. to get to the s/w upgrade screen. it sais i turn off ,remove battery , hold down volume down, wait, plug in usb. ... i only get a blank screen with white/black stripes
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That used to happen with me too a lot of times... Try more than once and after the s/w upgrade screen shows up leave it pressed more about 5-10 seconds. It only worked for me that way otherwise it would geta weird screen like yours and wouldnt get into download mode.. .try it

nmbbf said:
That used to happen with me too a lot of times... Try more than once and after the s/w upgrade screen shows up leave it pressed more about 5-10 seconds. It only worked for me that way otherwise it would geta weird screen like yours and wouldnt get into download mode.. .try it
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volume down + power button + home. when screen turns off leave power button and keep holding home + volume down. this just tested and worked for 3 times in a row. if u check it, it would be nice if someone update the guide for anyone who need it in the near future. thanks. im now going to next step

kessaras said:
volume down + power button + home. when screen turns off leave power button and keep holding home + volume down. this just tested and worked for 3 times in a row. if u check it, it would be nice if someone update the guide for anyone who need it in the near future. thanks. im now going to next step
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i get an error . look
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it sais device not found. but the guide doesnt say anything. it only sais to disable the device...

kessaras said:
i get an error . look
it sais device not found. but the guide doesnt say anything. it only sais to disable the device...
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Try to run in compatibility mode with xp ... Got windows enabler on ?

i think the guide there at step 7 is a bit wrong. how can you disable the phone and flash the rom ? if the pc cant "see" the machine connected , is it even possible ? ...
it didnt work. when i installed the usb drivers the windows couldnt recognise the phone. i switched the driver from mobile to portable something. i had only 2 available choices at the manage section if i didnt check to show compatible only machines. after switching to that driver... ( curse windows and their bugs ) , automatically switched back to mobile.... and my phone was connected to my pc....after that i continued with the flash rom and now its back working. Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im new to android. i has iphone since years.

kessaras said:
i think the guide there at step 7 is a bit wrong. how can you disable the phone and flash the rom ? if the pc cant "see" the machine connected , is it even possible ? ...
it didnt work. when i installed the usb drivers the windows couldnt recognise the phone. i switched the driver from mobile to portable something. i had only 2 available choices at the manage section if i didnt check to show compatible only machines. after switching to that driver... ( curse windows and their bugs ) , automatically switched back to mobile.... and my phone was connected to my pc....after that i continued with the flash rom and now its back working. Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im new to android. i has iphone since years.
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Well man, it worked for me the way the guide is, with some workarounds due to win7 incompatibilities.
If I helped you dont forget to hit thanks button ahah
I know the feeling, I had an ipod touch which I tweaked a lot, but since I had my first android... Can't even imagine going back to IOS

nmbbf said:
Well man, it worked for me the way the guide is, with some workarounds due to win7 incompatibilities.
If I helped you dont forget to hit thanks button ahah
I know the feeling, I had an ipod touch which I tweaked a lot, but since I had my first android... Can't even imagine going back to IOS
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only thanks ? i hit the google +1 too hahaha :good:

kessaras said:
only thanks ? i hit the google +1 too hahaha :good:
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Thought about next rom or sticking to that one?

nmbbf said:
Thought about next rom or sticking to that one?
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i thought about that but i didnt want to mention it here cause its wrong section. i wanna know more 1st. maybe ill watch at youtube if there is any video of other roms. after this i ve been through today , i feel like i handle almost anything hahaha

kessaras said:
i thought about that but i didnt want to mention it here cause its wrong section. i wanna know more 1st. maybe ill watch at youtube if there is any video of other roms. after this i ve been through today , i feel like i handle almost anything hahaha
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Feel free to ask anything ahah

the phone cant read the sim card. the sim tool app which was preinstalled is missing ? i dont understand again

kessaras said:
the phone cant read the sim card. the sim tool app which was preinstalled is missing ? i dont understand again
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I didn't understand... Which country was the rom you flashed? Tell me some more info

nmbbf said:
I didn't understand... Which country was the rom you flashed? Tell me some more info
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i choosed and download the one for my country. the latest for greece

kessaras said:
i choosed and download the one for my country. the latest for greece
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And it can't read your sim card ? what error does it get?

nmbbf said:
I didn't understand... Which country was the rom you flashed? Tell me some more info
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greece 20a

nmbbf said:
And it can't read your sim card ? what error does it get?
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non. no error. it just doesnt see any sim card
can we please use some other way to talk ? arent here any private messages ? something ? after its fixed i can just write here the solution and say thanks... i wait 5 minutes for every reply and the problem here is tough. if it goes on it will take hours....

kessaras said:
non. no error. it just doesnt see any sim card
can we please use some other way to talk ? arent here any private messages ? something ? after its fixed i can just write here the solution and say thanks... i wait 5 minutes for every reply and the problem here is tough. if it goes on it will take hours....
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Sure add me on skype "nmbdbf".
I'm gonna leave for a while because I'm gonna have a soccer game now , but later on I can help, if nobody else helps with the solution

Update!

I received my phone today (and it's gorgeous) and there was an update straight out of the box. The only way I found to install it is by first downloading it then power the phone down. Then power it back on by holding the volume up and power buttons at the same time. You'll boot into the recovery mode and select update from SD card and you'll see the zip file there select using the power button and stroll using the volume keys. The update is a little slow but it does improve the overall speed of the phone from my perspective too new to truly tell of course

Qayin said:
I received my phone today (and it's gorgeous) and there was an update straight out of the box. The only way I found to install it is by first downloading it then power the phone down. Then power it back on by holding the volume up and power buttons at the same time. You'll boot into the recovery mode and select update from SD card and you'll see the zip file there select using the power button and stroll using the volume keys. The update is a little slow but it does improve the overall speed of the phone from my perspective too new to truly tell of course
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Never had to do all that with mine. It prompted me to download the update and then when done i could install now or later.

tlxxxsracer said:
Never had to do all that with mine. It prompted me to download the update and then when done i could install now or later.
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My phone did all of that but would not complete the update and kept giving me an error message so that's what I had to do to get it to work.

don't put the SIM card in and you'll have no issues. just boot the phone and it'll prompt for wifi, skip that, then it'll ask to add 'Google' account, skip that and then it'll ask for first name and last name; which is optional too.
i skipped everything and was able to be logged in the phone. so it didn't do an auto update because there was no network connectivity.

anyone know what was new from the update?

Just got an update too, when it rebooted to apply update, it went to recovery saying ERROR.
Such fail. I'll flash it manually like OP. Thanks.
Edit: What folder is it in? I don't see it anywhere.
Decided to try Update normally again and it worked.

I tried at least five times myself and kept getting the error message. I'm glad you got it to update for you.

Qayin said:
I tried at least five times myself and kept getting the error message. I'm glad you got it to update for you.
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Did you have it plugged in to your computer? I had it plugged in to my PC and when it first rebooted I heard my PC make some USB detecting noises and for some reason my mouse died when it did that.
I unplugged it and tried the update again and it worked. Might be coincidence, might not be /shrug.

Update failed on me too. Said unpack failure or something similar. So I just redownloaded and then it went through fine. Hadn't put Sim card in yet and was not plugged into computer.
First time ever for an update to fail on one of my phones and I've been at this for awhile.
Blu has something amiss on their end.
But must say for 99.00 I'm impressed
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Mine was fine. Put in sim and setup. Updated went fine and done. No issue

Quick heads up for some of you guys...... My update was failing for the most part. Until I decided to take out the microsd card from my phone.
Once I removed the SD card I checked for an update again and voila it worked flawlessly. I'm not sure what the issue was/is. I can only assume that it has to do with not being able to store properly.
If the same issue has happened to you, you can also try to see if checking "install from SD" will work. That is something I didn't think of before removing the card.
Again simply remove the card and give it another go.
Hope this helps.
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Does anyone have a copy of the Update file OR the Stock Rom file for the Blu Vivo XL or know where to get it?
I'd like to have one in case I brick my phone while playing with it. I can use the SP Flash Tool to flash the phone back to stock. I stupidly didn't save the update file when the phone updated.
Thanks.

Please, for some reason I softbrick my phone, it is in the bootloop now. I need the update.zip file if someone is willling to help. Million thanks.

quyvinh said:
Please, for some reason I softbrick my phone, it is in the bootloop now. I need the update.zip file if someone is willling to help. Million thanks.
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"for some reason"??? You mean you tried to root it and then bricked it? That would make more sense. Good luck.

xphyle1971 said:
"for some reason"??? You mean you tried to root it and then bricked it? That would make more sense. Good luck.
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Yep, I did try to root. But just softbrick. Still able to get into the OEM recovery / fastboot section. Just need ROM / firmware if available.

quyvinh said:
Yep, I did try to root. But just softbrick. Still able to get into the OEM recovery / fastboot section. Just need ROM / firmware if available.
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For future reference, how do you get to recovery? Thanks

xdame said:
For future reference, how do you get to recovery? Thanks
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Hold Volume key up and Power button

FYI the bootloop softbrick, I have tried to sideload the update.zip file, it run through, but problem was NOT SOLVED, still bootloop.

quyvinh said:
FYI the bootloop softbrick, I have tried to sideload the update.zip file, it run through, but problem was NOT SOLVED, still bootloop.
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i have a link for a twrp backup. but its blu vivo xl stock rom. not the one after this recent "radio" update

I need a for the Vivo XL, my gets brick, so I flash a Gionee S Plus , now I have a smart Gionee but not a phone (no calls or sms)
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