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I have a droid 4 that ended up with bad software. Simple issue is I got no bootloader, no power, no nada. When I connect a regular USB i get a green light in the corner but no activity and no detect. Needless to say, bootloader is corrupt at this point. Sent it back to Moto Repair and they claim physical damage (though I know for a fact there is none) so I'm looking to Flash the bootloader myself. I'm aware it's going to have to be a low level NAND flash. Anyone familiar with this process? Computer does not detect. Does anyone have the latest A.074 Bootloader file I can grab? Need to get this guy running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Oh, and yes I have a factory programming cable if I can make use of it somehow......
queberican351 said:
I have a droid 4 that ended up with bad software. Simple issue is I got no bootloader, no power, no nada. When I connect a regular USB i get a green light in the corner but no activity and no detect. Needless to say, bootloader is corrupt at this point. Sent it back to Moto Repair and they claim physical damage (though I know for a fact there is none) so I'm looking to Flash the bootloader myself. I'm aware it's going to have to be a low level NAND flash. Anyone familiar with this process? Computer does not detect. Does anyone have the latest A.074 Bootloader file I can grab? Need to get this guy running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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How did the bootloader get corrupted? I was under the impression the phone would not allow you to flash another bootloader unless it was signed... You should ask Moto what was physically damaged, if it was a simple flash they should be able to fix it easily for you.
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That was my thoughts exactly. But they claim liquid damage. I've since then opened the phone and inspected all the stickers....no sign of liquid damage. I would think a 2 minute bootloader flash wouldn't constitute this much despair (on Motorola's part) but such is life. Now I'm just looking to get the first couple Mb in a device dump so I can write it to an sdcard and attempt to boot from there and repair the bootloader. It has to be a device dump from a D4 running the a.074 bootloader. Any takers?
You could try looking in the fastboot files, they're on the Droid 4 development boards, they have both Gingerbread ones
D4 6.16.215 MBM files
Here are the D4 6.16.215 mbm.bin and other low level boot files from the leaked OTA update.zip.
I don't think they are going to help you given that there is no way that I am aware of to boot from the sdcard on a Motorola device.
There is a USB boot option for loading a factory I/O image(pre firmware basic input/output interface), but I don't know how you would initialize it nor do I have the factory image for the D4.
It is most likely a touchpoint on the board that needs to be shorted while the factory cable is inserted and that would bypass the EMMC and initialize the USB boot.
I am just guessing here...good luck!
if you somehow unlock it too, let us know what you did
SD Card boot didn't work and couldn't get it to detect on my windows or linux pc's. Therefore OMAPboot was out of the question. So I parted it out. I've acquired another D4 and I'm curious as to what if any advancements have been made on getting them to work on US GSM carriers? If we're still stuck I'm more than willing to jump into Dev on this and open to suggestions. My new D4 is running bone stock GB. I'm going to keep looking into the SD or USB possible fix's for hardbricks.
Thanx for the replies and thanx to [mbm], Jonpry, PhareignQ (think I mightta spelled that wrong), and HashCode for their knowledge, help, and suggestions along the way.
Hey man! You're the second one with same issue. I'm looking to buy new motherboard for droid 4 with same crapped bootloader + broken cdrom partition
For those who is interesting in, motorola factory cable doesn't work with droid 4 for some strange reason.
I can attest to the fact that the factory cable does, indeed, work with the D4 just like the Razr and other Motorola models.
I am not sure why yours doesn't or what condition your phone is in at this point, but the factory cable will power the device directly, bypassing the battery/charging circuit and allow you to flash it as long as the bootloader and mbmloader are not corrupt.
In that case, when the mbmloader fails, then nothing happens on the device at all unless a factory cable is connected, then it will flash the LED white just once as the cable is inserted and then loop continuously trying to load an interface and fails. The screen does nothing and the device is dead except pressing all 3 hardware buttons will arrest then restart the cycle of failed interface initialization once released.
I have a Razr in this state that I unfortunately attempted to flash some unknown files we received that we foolishly believed may have been an OEM bootloader unlock.
If you flash a corrupt image to the mbmloader the device is toast, AFAIK, although I do believe they have ways to recover them and in the past those methods often involved shorting a set of pads on the board with a paperclip while inserting the factory cable, initializing a timed event where the EMMC was bypassed and and factory I/O file could be loaded via a USB boot option.
I don't know if any of these methods could actually save any of our phones in this state, but I would like to believe its possible!
I just wanted to clarify about the factory cable.
Yup, what @Cellzealot said. I've removed the battery from the D4 and the factory cable works as intended. To be frank I had a moment of ignorance. I had just gotten my D4 (used) and was attempting to try and find a solution for the US GSM band unlock. In reading through the post about the Bionic I found that there was alot of talk about needing to be on bootloader 0A.72 or something to the fact of having success with that. The kid I got it from had already installed the ICS leak. So I paid no attention to the fact that the bootloader on MY phone was 0A.74....so I opened RSD and attempted to send mbm and mbmloader from 0A.72. It failed and that was the last thing ever "sent" to that phone. As soon as I disconnected it the phone powered down and never did anything after that.......
So I pursued the Boot from SD theory to no success, though I believe it is plausible, however probably still required a short to enable it. And Linux and Windows wouldn't even detect the OMAP4430 (as I've heard some people had luck with). So OMAPboot (boot from usb) was out too.
Finally got another D4, and being the phone soldier I try to be, Went right back to town attempting to get this thing to run on AT&T. So far no luck. I've been trying radio's and rom's from different devices and brandings that are running 2.3.6 (I left this one on the stock Gingerbread)
Willing to undertake any suggestions as long as "bootloader" is nowhere in the equation,
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Yup, what @Cellzealot said. I've removed the battery from the D4 and the factory cable works as intended. To be frank I had a moment of ignorance. I had just gotten my D4 (used) and was attempting to try and find a solution for the US GSM band unlock. In reading through the post about the Bionic I found that there was alot of talk about needing to be on bootloader 0A.72 or something to the fact of having success with that. The kid I got it from had already installed the ICS leak. So I paid no attention to the fact that the bootloader on MY phone was 0A.74....so I opened RSD and attempted to send mbm and mbmloader from 0A.72. It failed and that was the last thing ever "sent" to that phone. As soon as I disconnected it the phone powered down and never did anything after that.......
So I pursued the Boot from SD theory to no success, though I believe it is plausible, however probably still required a short to enable it. And Linux and Windows wouldn't even detect the OMAP4430 (as I've heard some people had luck with). So OMAPboot (boot from usb) was out too.
Finally got another D4, and being the phone soldier I try to be, Went right back to town attempting to get this thing to run on AT&T. So far no luck. I've been trying radio's and rom's from different devices and brandings that are running 2.3.6 (I left this one on the stock Gingerbread)
Willing to undertake any suggestions as long as "bootloader" is nowhere in the equation,
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Any solution on black screen and broken bootloader?
Here I have black screen with AC adapter connected. If I connect the phone to PC, I have green led indicator, but still black screen. Buttons have no reactions.
Anything new? Two users on a German bulletin board do have the same issue. I will get one Droid 4 of them in the next few days to have a look at it. But this thread sounds like there is no solution?
http://db.tt/u31VG45D
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055839
The first link is to the most recent level 4 bootloader repair kit that we have for the Maserati/Droid 4 which is 0a.6c from pre ICS builds.
It is possible you may be able to use the pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin from those files with the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin from a more current build to restore your device.
Again, these files are a year old now and may not work but you have little to lose in trying.
Use the method in the second link in Linux to try to restore your bootloader with the omapflash-lnx binary from that thread.
This is very likely to fail if the device has a recent firmware build on it but we don't have any of these repair kits for the newer bootloaders.
Good luck!
Thanks.
I got one of these phones. But it isn't even recognized via USB So I can't use these tools...
Is there any way to flash it via JTAG/ISP/...? Maybe this is the last chance - or this phone is dead ^^
So here's my problem. I think I've bricked my device. Don't know if it's softbrick or hardbrick, but either way my phone just does not boot up. The only instance it works is when I remove the battery and try to charge the phone, it shows a picture that it didn't find a battery. All of this occurred while trying to unlock the bootloader. Something similar already happened to me like a month or two ago, but I was able to flash stock KDZ using the online LG Support Tool. Anyway, the part where it all messed up is probably the aboot.bin file, although I'm quite certain I flashed the right file for my device. Also, installed CWM recovery, and after restarting the device it just won't boot at all, not even the software upgrade mode or anything. So my guess is that something is wrong because of either a wrong aboot.bin file for my D405N or the custom recovery. I tried flashing stock KDZ, but I couldn't get my phone into software upgrade mode. Also, tried doing a hard reset, but an LG logo didn't even come up. The battery is at least half full. So is there anything I can actually do in this case? Any help is appreciated.
P.S. Yeah, I did post in another thread (though I didn't create it), but I'm quite desperate with this. Either I fix it myself somehow, or I'll have to take it to the warranty.
EDIT: Took it to a repair. Should be done in around a week. Got an old Samsung Galaxy Mini as a replacement.
linasj said:
So here's my problem. I think I've bricked my device. Don't know if it's softbrick or hardbrick, but either way my phone just does not boot up. The only instance it works is when I remove the battery and try to charge the phone, it shows a picture that it didn't find a battery. All of this occurred while trying to unlock the bootloader. Something similar already happened to me like a month or two ago, but I was able to flash stock KDZ using the online LG Support Tool. Anyway, the part where it all messed up is probably the aboot.bin file, although I'm quite certain I flashed the right file for my device. Also, installed CWM recovery, and after restarting the device it just won't boot at all, not even the software upgrade mode or anything. So my guess is that something is wrong because of either a wrong aboot.bin file for my D405N or the custom recovery. I tried flashing stock KDZ, but I couldn't get my phone into software upgrade mode. Also, tried doing a hard reset, but an LG logo didn't even come up. The battery is at least half full. So is there anything I can actually do in this case? Any help is appreciated.
P.S. Yeah, I did post in another thread (though I didn't create it), but I'm quite desperate with this. Either I fix it myself somehow, or I'll have to take it to the warranty.
EDIT: Took it to a repair. Should be done in around a week. Got an old Samsung Galaxy Mini as a replacement.
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Remember Next time Unlock Bootloader before Installing CWM.
Actually my friend bricked his phone, he flashed the 5.1 bootloader and radio.then somehow he flasheed back to 5.0.1 stock. then he flashed Euphoria again. The phone rebooted fine and he went to sleep. Then woke up and found out his phone was dead. And all buttons combo didn't work at all. It's just a piece of dead body.When plugging into the PC, it shows qhsusb_bulk. There were devices that had same problems but they managed to unbrick it, But those methods don't apply to Shamu. Odd thing is I did the same thing so far my Nexus 6 is fine .I've started worrying, tho. We bought it from amazon.fr and I'm sure i dont want to send it back all the way from China to France.
Also , i read some dudes encountered the same problem after flashing Cm12 with 5.1 BL. I really need your help.
I tried Nexus Root Toolkit to flash the factory image, it didnt work. It's still using the fastboot, and ofc i don't get to go there.
I've installed the Qualcomm_QHSUSB_driver, but it doesn't seem to fix anything.
no one?
Mine has done the same thing. Went to flash 5.1 nexus image from the google dev site. The flash did boot and radio and failed size on system ( even re-downloaded). I plug my N6 into my linux machine and this what I get on lsusb "Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)". I am also in need of help.
This updates been a nightmare
synapses said:
Mine has done the same thing. Went to flash 5.1 nexus image from the google dev site. The flash did boot and radio and failed size on system ( even re-downloaded). I plug my N6 into my linux machine and this what I get on lsusb "Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode)". I am also in need of help.
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So you're like me, no way to enter bootloader right? I've seen some other phones with the same problems but they figured a way out to solve it. I don't know we'll get that
beachbum40 said:
This updates been a nightmare
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I'm not sure it has anything to do with the update. My friend didn't flash the 5.1 google factory image . He flashed the 5.1 BL on a 5.0.2 aosp based rom then went back to stock 5.0.1 then flashed the same 5.0.2 aosp rom. Now it ends up dead.
This happened on Samsung devices too and it was a emmc issue, so the internal drive among others was no longer readable and writable and hardware like buttons was not working either. Unless someone comes with the golden tip you`ll have to turn it in for repair. Good luck guys
randy6644 said:
So you're like me, no way to enter bootloader right? I've seen some other phones with the same problems but they figured a way out to solve it. I don't know we'll get that
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doing some reading and it seams to be a broken bootloader.
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doing some reading and it seams to be a broken bootloader.
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I'm also a g2 owner, some just broke their devices and ended up sth similar. But they managed to unbrick it. I don't know if we stand a chance to bring it back to life.
I'm still stuck. Any progress ?
synapses said:
doing some reading and it seams to be a broken bootloader.
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Any progress? I tried several ways and none of them worked
I had to RMA
randy6644 said:
Actually my friend bricked his phone, he flashed the 5.1 bootloader and radio.then somehow he flasheed back to 5.0.1 stock. then he flashed Euphoria again. The phone rebooted fine and he went to sleep. Then woke up and found out his phone was dead. And all buttons combo didn't work at all. It's just a piece of dead body.When plugging into the PC, it shows qhsusb_bulk. There were devices that had same problems but they managed to unbrick it, But those methods don't apply to Shamu. Odd thing is I did the same thing so far my Nexus 6 is fine .I've started worrying, tho. We bought it from amazon.fr and I'm sure i dont want to send it back all the way from China to France.
Also , i read some dudes encountered the same problem after flashing Cm12 with 5.1 BL. I really need your help.
I tried Nexus Root Toolkit to flash the factory image, it didnt work. It's still using the fastboot, and ofc i don't get to go there.
I've installed the Qualcomm_QHSUSB_driver, but it doesn't seem to fix anything.
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Something should be able to be done using QPST (i.e., to force flash the bootloader), but that is above my level of knowledge.
efrant said:
Something should be able to be done using QPST (i.e., to force flash the bootloader), but that is above my level of knowledge.
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I'm going through similar with a dead Nexus 7. I think the eMMC died in it though, as it just went out without any tinkering. No sign of life on the device, but is picked up as a Qualcomm modem port and detected by QPST in download mode. I don't have/can't find the hex files required by QPST to flash it though.
I theorize that if a working device can be put in QPST "diag" mode, then QPST will allow exporting the storage contents in a flashable hex file, and that file could be used to restore the boot partitions on the dead device. I haven't been able to find information about this "diag"nostic mode, however.
Same issue guys, Upgraded to 5.1 OTA rooted and flashed cm12 tried to reboot. Nothing. Stuck in "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" QPST will recognize it in Download mode. If we can get these Hex files I will give it a shot. Thanks!
http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7863761
found sth here dont know if its useful, all written in Chine
randy6644 said:
http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7863761
found sth here dont know if its useful, all written in Chine
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Cant find much relating to our issue but there may be relevant info there, we cant download or make an account on that site due to our american IP anyway.
i will upload them when im home. i read sth about qc diag interface,qcn stuff. but this thread is a tutorial for cracking the China Telecom band. Dont know if theres anything useful
randy6644 said:
i will upload them when im home. i read sth about qc diag interface,qcn stuff. but this thread is a tutorial for cracking the China Telecom band. Dont know if theres anything useful
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If you are able to export the Hex file with everything we need to restore through QPST you will be saving alot of peoples ass as the number of hard bricks are growing hourly now! Or at least the threads being started about hard bricks are! Appreciate the help brother. AdA
im not sure if i can find the useful files you need. just trying my best to contact that op , if he knows sth. my ass will ne saved. but its 1 .30 am in China.i dont think hes awake. i will keep an eye on that.
I have done so much and probably have everything I need downloaded already but I am stuck.
LG - K 7 - Family Mobile (Wal-Mart/T-Mobile) phone
Tried to root it and got stuck into a security loop and was able to get into download mode at that point, I used LGUP and now my phone will not do anything. I can not get my computer to recognize it, it does nothing when plugged into charger. Its like stuck off so I cant get to a download screen flash my phone back to the way it was. Please I need help, ive found all the links to people in similiar situations as me and none of them have unlocked this BLACKOUT BRICKED UNLOCK ABLE MODE!
Different programs from android studios to LGUP to ADB and Fastboot, LG support tool, LG Flash Tool, and all the necessary files like LGUP_Lab_Frame_Ver_1_10, LGUP_K330, LGK330.dz, The K33011e (Walmart Family Mobile) zip file, proper .kdz files and some others.
PLEASE HELP ME.
Would be forever in your debt
Shawn
Anyone? Last night I left my phone plugged in all night hoping it make a difference and still cant get anything to load, computer to recognize it im stuck. HELP ME PLZ :fingers-crossed:
I made a vid so I can show exactly what it's doing.. Its only like 15 seconds
https://youtu.be/And3oxigBnM
Redacted Kaos said:
I made a vid so I can show exactly what it's doing.. Its only like 15 seconds
https://youtu.be/And3oxigBnM
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Tfat has to be frustrating, I don't want to waste your time, but hate to see someone with a dead device, so you've already tried qfil and lgup, and fastboot commands? And you've also attempted to get into EDL again I'm assuming, and have you looked to see what your device is named in device manager in this state, meaning I'd it labeling it a modem or ADB device.? I'm just throwing some stuff out there because if it's fixable, and I'm sure it is, you have to get it into some other mode. I get that screen too but it boots and everything. If these guys can't get you hooked up than that vlad dude can do remote work and I think he knows LG very well. Just a thought.
Can you describe what you have done to get to this point? I was in a similar situation last week that took about 12 hours of troubleshooting but eventually got it fixed and set up the way I want.
I made a mistake somewhere and flashed something or failed to flash something that got me in a similar state.
I will just throw out what worked for me. I had lost every bootable mode except for 9008 (edl?). So I tried using QFIL to flash Pie laf_a and laf_b or the Oreo version. This gets you LG Download mode back. From here I recommend using a KDZ to get back to stock and boot in to make sure you can. My first attempt at this point was flashing a Pie KDZ US unlocked (I have AT&T ). Would not boot. So I tried flashing the Oreo KDZ US unlocked… lo and behold it booted all the way up. From here I was able to start over and follow the guide to get Lineage OS.
Anyway hopes this helps you.
Thank you guys for answering me I will basically I've got magisk installed bootloader unlocked rooted and I was just my phone will boot up and stuff but you know what happens whenever I want to go into download mode or go into sucking whatever you know.. I went through all this trouble got this phone unlocked and rooted and stuff 90% of the s*** that I can use what does rooted phone requires a custom recovery which is the one sucking thing I guess you can't do so I'm thinking about just flashing back stop because I don't have this kind of irritated cuz there's so many modules I want to use and stuff and I can't because there's no way to flash custom recovery whatever seed wrmn whatever