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bricked sort of?

i am in desperate need of help i tried giving my pops a hand with his vibrant since he sees all the stuff i do to my nexus..i flashed the stock firmware from jac and the phone will not boot...well actually i get the tmobile splash...the vibrant splash..and the s animtion..problem is after that i guess the phone just hangs...the screen nvr turns on..i press the capacitive buttons and they light up but nothing on th screen and i cant get it to turn on...now i dont believe its bricked cause i can get into recovery and into download mode..i tried flashing through odin about three times...everything goes through..the phone resets..goes through the boot screens but after that nothing comes up...backtracking for a min...the whole reason i tried to flash the stock jac firmware was because i went into rom manager and tried to partition the sdcard..when i hit partition the phone rebooted and nothing would come up..i am assuming that it reformatted the internal card..needless to say thats when i tried flashing the stock and this is where im stuck at...i would really appreciate some help..and hopefully this will stop anyone else from running into this issue...do not try to partition the sdcard from rom manager..i hope i have described this in enough detail...thanks

looks like someone might owe his daddy a new phone.
Get ready for a spanking.

If my dad were still alive he would probably murder me if I ever bricked his new 200 dollar phone.
Just kidding. I hope you get it working bro. If not, try to exchange it. Say you don't know what happened to it, you turned it off and let it charge overnight and when you woke up to turn it on, this happened. Have tears in your eyes. They'll exchange it for you

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Just kidding. I hope you get it working bro. If not, try to exchange it. Say you don't know what happened to it, you turned it off and let it charge overnight and when you woke up to turn it on, this happened. Have tears in your eyes. They'll exchange it for you
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I agree with this. If you dad goes in, T-mo won't think "This old dude must have hacked it!" They'll exchange it right away and even apologize to him.
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have you tried to manually remove the partition and see if it boots? or try to boot without the sdcard?

what I did was flash Eugenes Froyo rom which worked well, then I re-flashed the stock rom. Now it works just like before.

junkdruggler said:
have you tried to manually remove the partition and see if it boots? or try to boot without the sdcard?
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could u explain to me how to do that..i would appreciate it..cuz i kind of think it has to be a problem with partitions..also another thing i noticed is when the phone reboots and goes into recovery in red letters data wipe says fail..i have also tried both pit files 512 and 513..evrything thing works gets past boot screens but the screen doesnt come on

Don't Try to Partition with Rom Manager.

If You try to partition with Rom manager it partitions the internal sd and you will brick your phone. Your screen will be black with only the capacative buttons glowing. This brick is possibly the more annoying ones where you have to flash your phone twice. If you have this problem don't panic like i did.
*REMOVING EXTERNAL SD CARD MIGHT IMPROVE ODIN CHANCES OF WORKING*(Thanks Hoey2011 for mentioning this)
Step 1: Download all files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
PUt them in a safe spot you will need them for later.
Step 2: Download files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558
Step 3: HAVE ODIN OPENED FIRST!!(This helped it detect my phone for some reason)Get phone into download mode. The easiest way to do this is pull out battery from phone. Then plug phone into usb connected to computer it will have the battery sign. Hold volume keys and power button when the screen goes black let go of power button. You will be in download mode if Odin doesn't detect it unplug usb and replug it.
Step 4: Once Odin has recognized your phone set the pit file and .tar file FROM EUGENE'S 2.2 THREAD. NOT THE FIRST LINK THE SECOND LINK. Then click start. And follow all the directions on his thread.
Step 5: Once you have flashed that rom you put your phone in download mode again and set up the pit and .tar file for Stock 2.1. After you finish flashing it your phone should be saved!
Thanks to Eugene373, justanothercrowd and anomalous3(for being patient and helping me out when I had this problem) And to anyone else that helped me solve this problem.

Thanx for being the guinea pig. Glad you got it back working.

Yea It was a ***** tho. Spent at least 4 hrs fixing it. But glad its working

Wow that sucks well thanks for the write up.

I was in the same boat as you and as I was downloading 2.2 to try I found your thread. Works like a charm! Thanks for the info on this. I guess I shouldn't read threads backwards from now on, huh?

ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch

ok, so i continued my use of the search tool here at xda and found my answer
I had my MicroSD card in my phone, hadn't even thought to remove it. I have moved past the cache.rfs file and am now waiting to see the results....
IT WORKED OMG OMG OMG
Xda forums almost ruined my phone, then brought it back from the dead
god i love equlibrium

Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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I did exactly this and I was so frustrated that I sent my phone back to tmobile and just purchased a new one. I don't know about yall but if there are two storage points (internal and external) there should be an option for both in default recovery because when I tried to partition the external sd card *in which i was able to execute on my nexus one* it was very easy but because I use clockwork recovery and did a rom backup, i guess the backup zip wasn't safe because I received the same results as you. There should be 2 options to choose from that says *internal storage, External SD Card* why make things difficult? lol
The manufacturers need to be a little more intuitive.
*this is my opinion*

zDisturbed1 said:
Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).

Koush said:
Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).
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I haven't tried partitioning, but the card's /dev/block/mmcblk1p* entries are there and I can mount them. That's how the dc2ext hack works. It mounts /sd-ext and /data to do the copies and it does it in recovery.

hoey2011 said:
ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch
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I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .

brandnewsimmy said:
I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .
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turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again

hoey2011 said:
turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again
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I forgot to mention to do that. I did that with mine as well. Taking out the sd card increases success. Thanks for mentioning it.
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farrisizdaman said:
Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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YEa I guessed as much thats why I was trying not to "flame" and to be informative you are a victim of exactly what I am talking about. Because so many people throw around the word brick anytime anything goes wrong not only is it losing its meaning but people are also getting confused.

This does work, it took me about 7 hours last night to fix it.
I will say if it does not work then keep trying.
My flash kept freezing on the froyo rom and would not finish, so I actually had to try and flash the full captivate stock rom (search the captivate forum) it froze but afterwords it let me go throught the whole flash process with Eugenes 2.2 rom, then flashed right back to 2.1 no prob.
I will also say that if you are on a x64 system then go find a x86 (32 bit) system. I dont know why but it just works better.
So if it doesnt work then do this:
1. Make sure you are on a 32 bit system.
2. Flash a Full Rom from the Captivate forum. (It has a more to it I believe, changes the system maybe?)
3. If it freezes that is ok. Flash the 2.2 rom. (might need to do it a couple times)
4. After successful flash then go to stock.

This needs a sticky!!!!!!!!!
I just did this. Wish I would have seen this thread first!

I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...

tsnow247 said:
I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...
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After fighting with it I found out this worked best for me:
Battery out
Plug in USB cord to the phone and PC
Hold Vol up and down
Put the battery in
Phone should boot right into download mode.
Also, I found you should have Odin open FIRST before you do this. If I didn't I would have constant issues with Odin hanging.

Help! Droid 2 stuck in boot loop.(solved.)

Ok, so I was playing around with the new Root Tools app and made a few, what I thought were safe, tweeks to the system and rebooted the phone. It gets past the M screen, runs the boot animation and then starts the boot animation again. No way out except to pull the battery.
How can I get it out of this endless bootloop? If I have to factory reset and start again from scratch, so be it. I would just like to know how.
I've tried holding down different button combinations on boot but haven't come up with the right sequence I guess.
I've also tried pulling the battery as the animation starts, then putting it back in and rebooting which is supposed to call up the recovery mode, but it doesn't. I'm not sure what to try next? I wish these things had a reset button
It's a Droid 2 Rooted with the stock rom running Froyo 2.2. I have the Bootstrap recovery loaded and did a backup with the clockwork recovery. I also have, and use, Titanium Backup Pro for Root.

After bootlooping pull the battery and put it back in. Then plug the droid 2 in with the cable either wall or USB will work. Then turn it on and it should get you recovery. The phone has to be completely off when you plug it in though.
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EDIT: I tested it and USB won't work (at least for me) better off just using the wall plug.

Thanks, but that not working either. When I plug in the cable after the battery pull it starts up automatically and goes to the battery charge screen. I then shut it off and start it back up with no battery but plugged in and it goes right back into the boot loop after the M screen.

The batter charge screen is what you want. Just press the power button after you get the charge screen and you'll be booted into clockwork.
But in order to factory reset from a bootloop you have to flash an .sbf theres a few different tutorials. One in Windows, Another in linux/mac, and another in linux but for windows machines through an Ubuntu livecd(that I made).

Oh, OK I thought it was going to go right into recovery mode. Good to know.
I finally figured out how to get into the stock recovery and bootloader, so I tried to run the stock restore but after it wiped the data, it couldn't find the recovery file! So then I read in another post about using RSDlight 4.9 to do an sdf restore so I used that method. Of course while it was flashing I did come across your Ubuntu method and that does look like it would be a simpler process. I'm going make one of those CD's to have for next time.
Anyway, I was able to get it back to stock. It looks like most of my stuff is still on the SD card, so that's a bonus! I'll have to re-root before I can restore everything via Titanium, but that's going to be tomorrow's project. As for now just happy to to have my phone back. Especially before the wife (who has been telling me for weeks to stop F'in with it) found out .
I really appreciate that you took the time to help, thanks again!

No problem.

Could you change your Thread title to include [SOLVED]. Thanks

Can you please explain to me how you fixed this problem? I am currently having this problem now.

Please do not open/post in multiple threads for the same issue. This is a waste of time as we can see you have an open thread. Please reply to my response in your original thread for further assistance. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824254)

newk8600 said:
Could you change your Thread title to include [SOLVED]. Thanks
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Ok, your wish is my command! ;-)
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Can I close this?

Yes. This issue has been resolved.

theecho said:
Yes. This issue has been resolved.
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Ok, thanks

Problem with recovery

Hi all, i just recently got a vibrant, and i rooted using superoneclick, and now after installing rom manager and flashing clockwork recovery, every time i boot into recovery it gives me default android recovery, and not clockwork mod. what is wrong?

bumpitty bump bump

Make sure you have the update.zip installed by Rom Manager in the root of your sd card and hit re-install packages. That should get you into clockwork recovery.
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It is in the root of my internal sd card, and i do not have a reinstall packages option

try the modded 3e recovery in the DEV section if your on 2.2

Well i went to that except i have one problem and i cannot post there due to being under 10 posts, but they all talk about a "keys" file, but i cant see it in any of the files in the op

Can you give like a full step by step guide? because none of the ones in that thread are specific enough

nevermind i think i got it with this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925400

Yup, got it, now im gonna go flash bionix -v , thanks for the help!

bionix hard-bricked my phone and now i cant get into download mode even with no boot guide

What is it doing? With ODIN open and phone plugged in to your pc do you see it adding a COM port? Im gonna take a stab and say you didn't let Linda convert your filesystem completely and reboot itself maybe...

No com port no nothing, the phone itself will not power on into anything using any method

any idea what you did right before it wouldn't come on? Did you have a lagfix other then voodoo?? Like OCLF??
Try this method....
Pull everything out of your phone..battery, sim, sdcard
Open ODIN on your PC
Plug the USB into your PC
Hold down ONLY the Volume Keys (both of them)
Plug the USB into your phone...still holding the keys
With your other hand put the battery in..
Should be a minor delay and then you should see the Download mode screen (Digging Android robot)
Try it a few times

that is what i have been doing for past 15 minutes, its too late now, im returning it.

Man..I know its frustrating...I ve been there quite a few times myself..This last time I had a complete No Power brick...no nothing..dead...nada... Called em up, had a replacement sent, but before it got here, I got the phone back on and I actually returned the replacement back to them and kept my old one...it just keeps coming back to life...
So if you ordered a replacement..theres no harm in playing with your current one to try to get it back working is there??

I didnt order a replacement, i took it back to the store, and wow, this is ridiculous, the new one has the problem with the back and menu buttons where they choose when they want to work and not, i liked my desire z so much better except that i was forced into getting rid of it because people could never hear me on calls.

Ahhh I c... sorry I couldn't help you
Sent from Bionix V powered Vibrant

bad choice .....becasue u never know if your replacement phone was refurbished prolly it was . u shoulnd of stay with new vib and let us help u fix it . anyway ,good luck and LOOOOOLMZ if opeople couldnt hear u whenu called thanu should of never gotr a vibrant loo ull see why P

[Q] Recovery Rebooting Issue

Hello,
I sure could use some help here! I just upgraded to BajaROM 16 in my stock rom slot. All was fine until I did a boneheaded thing. I wanted to go into recovery to attempt to install another ROM in slot 1 so by mistake I clicked on "recovery" in the drop screen that also has the restart and shut down buttons. Now I appear to be in a endless loop trying to find recovery. I have no idea what to do now. I tried doing the three button approach but nothing happened. I have pulled the battery and waited a few minutes but as soon as I re-start the phone, I get that damn "Recovery Reboot" message again on the top left side of the screen.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

I'm in the same boat, phone has been constantly rebooting for the last 12 hours and I can't figure out how to make it work again...

same boat here.
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I have encountered this as well. I fixed it by Odin flashing the modem back to the phone. Once flashed, it rebooted and I had Safestrap and my rom back. Just be sure you flash the right modem file as the wrong one will brick your phone. I have done that in the past as well.

Bizack said:
same boat here.
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What was the resolution? I'm in the same boat and can't get ODIN to recognize the phone.

tdamore said:
What was the resolution? I'm in the same boat and can't get ODIN to recognize the phone.
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Whoa, Odin wont recognize the phone in download mode?
vol dn + home & Power?
You need to not use USB3, switch USB ports, change cables, if your computer wont recognize switch computers.
Open up Kies3 and re-install drivers.
Many options, try them all, don't give up. It your shot won't even turn on, then take that **** back!!!
What IO did to achieve salvation...
I flashed NC4, Rooted using towl root, then busy box and Safe Strapped flashed the NC2 kernel and bamm(no relation) back on Baja16....
(there is a process, please don't follow the steps above, go here...)

I was in the same boat...
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What was the resolution? I'm in the same boat and can't get ODIN to recognize the phone.
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I was also rebooting into recovery mode over and over again after my first boot up of the recent Baja and rebooting into Recovery after updating to the new version of SS.
The only thing I could do was pull the battery and it would do again. I read the above about updating the modem, but unsure what that was, I tried rebooting into download mode again. From here, instead of hitting UP VOLUME to continue, I hit DOWN VOLUME and low and behold, I got the baja flash and it booted up my phone again.
PHEW!
Just thought I'd share what worked for me...

what am i doing wrong i did the root methods and setup the safestrap(3.75) and have been trying all evening to install bigginsRom+v6. i go thru all the steps and when i hit continue for it to reboot it just dies and does nothing. i have to pull the battery and get it back to safestrap and reinstall the stock rom. i am supposed to set it up on slot 1 instead of stock right?

downloaded another rom and tried it in another slot and the same thing. the only one i can get to load is the stock backup. anything else it just goes black and does nothing. have to pull the battery to even get it to power back on

BigHoss3 said:
what am i doing wrong i did the root methods and setup the safestrap(3.75) and have been trying all evening to install bigginsRom+v6. i go thru all the steps and when i hit continue for it to reboot it just dies and does nothing. i have to pull the battery and get it back to safestrap and reinstall the stock rom. i am supposed to set it up on slot 1 instead of stock right?
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BigHoss3 said:
downloaded another rom and tried it in another slot and the same thing. the only one i can get to load is the stock backup. anything else it just goes black and does nothing. have to pull the battery to even get it to power back on
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Guys, Please Go here.
Follow these directions to the letter.
First ting is figure out where you are at and use the correct method to get your s**T back up and running...

Bizack said:
Guys, Please Go here.
Follow these directions to the letter.
First ting is figure out where you are at and use the correct method to get your s**T back up and running...
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It took some work but I got it booted back to the stock rom

I also had problems getting Odin to see my phone. In my case I just needed to unistall the USB drivers bundled with my phone and install the latest drivers FROM Samsung's website.